Dictionary Entry
cement
cement is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 17 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
- 2noun
A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
- 3noun
The powder used in cementation. See Cementation., 2.
- 4noun
Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
- 5noun
The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
- 6noun
To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
- 7noun
To unite firmly or closely.
- 8noun
To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
- 9intransitive verb
To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
- 10noun
a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
Synonyms
- 11noun
something that hardens to act as adhesive material
- 12noun
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
- 13noun
concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
"they stood on the grey cement beside the pool"
- 14noun
any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth
- 15verb
make fast as if with cement
"We cemented our friendship"
- 16verb
bind or join with or as if with cement
- 17verb
cover or coat with cement
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