[
US
/əˈɡɫutɪˌneɪt/
]
ADJECTIVE
- united as if by glue
VERB
- string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
How To Use agglutinate In A Sentence
- Although the APMV-5 HN protein has neuraminidase activity, it neither hemagglutinated nor hemadsorbed RBCs of chickens, turkeys, guinea pigs, horses, or human O-group, either at 37°C or at 4°C. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- All the Edmonston clones showed agglutination of monkey erythrocytes in isotonic solution while both vaccine strains hemagglutinated only in the presence of high salt concentrations.
- Again, by other chemical substances produced in it, the blood may, without actually killing the invading bacteria, only paralyse them, and cause them to "agglutinate" (that is, to adhere to one another as an inactive "clot" or "lump"). More Science From an Easy Chair
- In most cases, the first 2nd, 3rd or 4th letters of each Basque word were agglutinated into a new word.
- Pangolins are conspicuous and remarkable because their backs are covered with large, overlapping scales made up of agglutinated hairs.
- 'What a monstrous spectre is this man, this disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown up with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming. CHAPTER 21
- The mutual orientation of agglutinated plates is similar to the putative organization of twin domains in a crystal; therefore it was supposed that agglutinated and twinned crystals have similar nature.
- Pangolins are conspicuous and remarkable because their backs are covered with large, overlapping scales made up of agglutinated hairs.
- Two — four — six — eight, English should agglutinate! The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths:
- So, like I said already, primary stress accent in Mid IE was much like in Polish and fell on the penultimate syllable (second-from-last syllable) by default unless a suffix was derived from an Old IE agglutinated enclitic in which case the antepenultimate (third-from-last syllable) was chosen. Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system