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UK
/sɪmˈɛnt/
]
[ US /səˈmɛnt, sɪˈmɛnt/ ]
[ US /səˈmɛnt, sɪˈmɛnt/ ]
NOUN
- a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
- something that hardens to act as adhesive material
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concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
they stood on the grey cement beside the pool - any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- 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
VERB
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make fast as if with cement
We cemented our friendship - cover or coat with cement
- bind or join with or as if with cement
How To Use cement In A Sentence
- The abrupt facies shift, bioturbation and cemented nature of the surfaces suggests that they represent marine flooding surfaces, formed during a rapid rise in relative sea level and/or a reduction in sediment supply.
- Other procedures available are otoplasty (ear correction), rhinoplasty, liposculpture, penile enhancement and face, neck and brow lifts to name but a few.
- A couple of weeks after the monarch's announcement, heavy rain began to fall, thus ending the drought.
- Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
- He presided over the job placement blackboard beside the trading floor.
- The turning supporter facilitates the closing of the cargo container and simultaneously provides the reinforcement to the cargo container.
- The arrows indicate the beginning of the grace note figure and the placement of each note in the triplet figure for the left hand.
- The schematic for the DTMF decoder in the figure below. Again you can use a combination of wire wrapping and soldering. Part placement is not critical.
- The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics. Into the Den of Spies
- I would show up unannounced, watch Jaime teach calculus, chat with Principal Henry Gradillas, check in with other Advanced Placement classes and in the early afternoon call my editor in Washington to say I was chasing down the latest medfly outbreak story, or whatever seemed believable at the time. Unlike many, Escalante believed in teaching, not sorting
