Cement

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cement \Ce*ment"\ (s[e^]*m[e^]nt" or s[e^]m"[e^]nt), n. [OF.
     cement, ciment, F. ciment, fr. L. caementum a rough, unhewn
     stone, pieces or chips of marble, from which mortar was made,
     contr. fr. caedimentum, fr. caedere to cut, prob. akin to
     scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.]
     1. Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other,


        as mortar, glue, etc.
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     2. A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of
        clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under
        water.
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     3. The powder used in cementation. See {Cementation}, n., 2.
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     4. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in
        friendship, or men in society. "The cement of our love."
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     5. (Anat.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a
        tooth; -- called also {cementum}.
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     {Hydraulic cement}. See under {Hydraulic}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cement \Ce*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cemented}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Cementing}.] [Cf. F. cimenter. See {Cement}, n.]
     1. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. --Bp.
        Burnet.
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     2. To unite firmly or closely. --Shak.
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     3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar
        bottom.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cement \Ce*ment"\, v. i.
     To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere. --S. Sharp.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cement
       n 1: concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they
            stood on the gray cement beside the pool"
       2: a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of
          calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or
          gravel to make concrete and mortar
       3: something that hardens to act as adhesive material
       4: any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities
          in teeth
       5: a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
          [syn: {cementum}]
       v 1: make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship"
       2: cover or coat with cement
       3: bind or join with or as if with cement

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  233 Moby Thesaurus words for "cement":
     Tarmac, Tarvia, accouple, accumulate, adamant, adhere, adherent,
     adhesive, adobe, affix, agglutinate, amass, anchor, annex,
     articulate, ashlar, asphalt, assemble, associate, attach, band,
     barnacle, belay, bind, biscuit, bisque, bitumen,
     bituminous macadam, blacktop, bond, bone, bony, bowl, bracket,
     bramble, braze, brick, bricks and mortar, bridge, bridge over,
     brier, bulldog, burr, carpet, causeway, cemental, ceramic ware,
     ceramics, chain, china, cinch, clamp, clap together, clinch, cling,
     clinker, cobble, cobblestone, cohere, collect, combine, comprise,
     concatenate, concrete, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect,
     copulate, corneous, couple, cover, covering materials, cramp,
     crock, crockery, curb, curbing, curbstone, decal, decalcomania,
     dense, diamond, diamondlike, dure, edgestone, embrace, enamelware,
     encompass, engraft, fasten, ferroconcrete, firebrick, fix, flag,
     flagging, flagstone, flint, flintlike, flinty, floor, flooring,
     fuse, gather, glass, glue, graft, granite, granitelike, granitic,
     grapple, gravel, grout, gum, gunk, hard, hard as nails,
     hardhearted, heart of oak, hold, horny, include, iron, iron-hard,
     ironlike, join, jug, kerb, kerbstone, knit, knot, lapideous,
     lath and plaster, lay together, league, leech, limpet, link,
     lithoid, lithoidal, lump together, macadam, make fast, marble,
     marblelike, marry, marshal, masonry, mass, mastic, merge, metal,
     mobilize, molasses, moor, mortar, mucilage, nails, oak, obdurate,
     osseous, pair, parget, paste, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving,
     paving material, paving stone, pebble, piece together, plaster,
     plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, prickle,
     put to, put together, refractory, remora, resistant, resistive,
     road metal, rock, rocklike, rocky, roll into one, roofage, roofing,
     roughcast, screw up, secure, set, set to, siding, solder, solid,
     span, splice, steel, steellike, steely, stick, stick together,
     sticker, stone, stonelike, stony, stucco, syrup, take in, tape,
     tar, tarmacadam, thorn, tie, tighten, tile, tiling, tough,
     trice up, trim, unify, unite, urn, vase, walling, washboard, weld,
     yoke
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Cement, OK (town, FIPS 13000)
    Location: 34.93631 N, 98.13624 W
    Population (1990): 642 (327 housing units)
    Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 73017

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Cement, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
     Population (2000):    530
     Housing Units (2000): 284
     Land area (2000):     0.451786 sq. miles (1.170120 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.451786 sq. miles (1.170120 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            13000
     Located within:       Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
     Location:             34.935441 N, 98.137320 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     73017
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Cement, OK
      Cement