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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ce•ment /sɪˈmɛnt/USA pronunciation n. - Building a mixture of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, etc., to form concrete, used as a building material:[uncountable]a floor made of cement.
- Building any soft, sticky substance that dries hard and is used for mending broken objects:[uncountable]a jar of paper cement.
- anything that binds or unites:[countable* usually singular]Their children were the cement of their family.
v. [~ + object] - Buildingto unite or join by or as if by cement: Cement part 65a to part 65b;
set aside to dry. - Buildingto coat or cover with cement:The workers cemented the floors of the apartment building.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024ce•ment (si ment′),USA pronunciation n. - Buildingany 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.
- Buildingany of various soft, sticky substances that dry hard or stonelike, used esp. for mending broken objects or for making things adhere.
- Rocks[Petrog.]the compact groundmass surrounding and binding together the fragments of clastic rocks.
- anything that binds or unites:Time is the cement of friendship.
- Dentistry
- a hardening, adhesive, plastic substance, used in the repair of teeth for anchoring fillings or inlays, for filling, or for fastening crowns.
- Informal Termscementum.
v.t. - Buildingto unite by or as if by cement:to cement stones to form a wall; to cement a relationship.
- Buildingto coat or cover with cement:to cement a floor.
v.i. - to become cemented;
join together or unite;
cohere.
- Latin, as above
- Old French ciment
- *caed-mentom, equivalent. to caed(ere) to cut + -mentum -ment; replacing Middle English cyment
- Latin cēmentum, variant of caementum (singular of caementa unprocessed cuttings from the quarry, i.e., rough stone and chips)
- 1250–1300
- 6.See corresponding entry in Unabridged merge, join, bind, fuse, secure.
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