Definitions for cement

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cement ce·ment

Spelling: [si-ment]

IPA: /sɪˈmɛnt/

Cement is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in cement (ceemnt).

Definitions for cement

noun

1. any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.
2. any of various soft, sticky substances that dry hard or stonelike, used especially for mending broken objects or for making things adhere.
3. Petrography. the compact groundmass surrounding and binding together the fragments of clastic rocks.
4. anything that binds or unites:
5. Dentistry. a hardening, adhesive, plastic substance, used in the repair of teeth for anchoring fillings or inlays, for filling, or for fastening crowns. Informal. cementum.

verb (used with object)

1. to unite by or as if by cement:
2. to coat or cover with cement:

verb (used without object)

1. to become cemented; join together or unite; cohere.

Origin of cement

1250-1300; Latin cēmentum, variant of caementum (singular of caementa unprocessed cuttings from the quarry, i.e., rough stone and chips) *caed-mentom, equivalent to caed(ere) to cut + -mentum

Examples for cement

The streets of the towns were narrow, but were often paved with a sort of cement.

Then there was a clattering on the cement floor as of a million arrows.

Broken china may be repaired with cement, made of equal parts of glue, the white of an egg, and white-lead mixed together.

The plaster or cement coating is intact, and the inscription is plain.

Holding the architectural smorgasbord of a castle together was cement, wire, and mortar.

And what Navfac calls “standard airfield concrete” is military-grade, made with aggregate and Portland cement.

He was pinned to the cement for his refusal to go along with an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.

As the boy ran off, K.'s eye fell on what he had written on the cement.

And to check out this 100-year-old steel and cement engineering marvel.

Death waits for these things as a cement floor waits for a dropping light bulb.