Cement

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.

   “In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.”

2. isim The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
3. isim Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
4. isim A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

   “the cement of our love”

5. isim The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
6. fiil To affix with cement.
7. fiil To overlay or coat with cement.

   “to cement a cellar floor”

8. fiil To unite firmly or closely.

   “For they have entertained cause enough To draw their swords: but how the fear of us May cement their divisions and bind up The petty difference, we yet not know.”

9. fiil To make permanent.

   “But friendſhip is a calm and ſedate affection, conducted by reaſon and cemented by habit; ſpringing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations; without jealouſies or fears; and without thoſe feveriſh fits of heat and cold, which cauſe ſuch an agreeable torment in the amorous paſſion.”

10. özel isim A town in Oklahoma.