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词汇 cement
释义 cement
noun[ U ]
uk /sɪˈment/ us /səˈment/

cementnoun[U] (BUILDING MATERIAL)


a grey powder that is mixed with water and sand to make mortar or with water, sand, and small stones to make concrete: 水泥
a bag of cement一袋水泥
a cement factory水泥厂
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Building materials
acoustic tile
adobe
agglomerate
airbrick
asphalt
drywall
fibro
fixing
flagged
flagstone
particle board
paving
prestressed
putty
razor wire
two-by-four
unreinforced
wattle
wattle and daub
weatherboarding

cementnoun[U] (GLUE)


a substance that sticks things together: 胶合剂;黏固剂
Dentists use cement to hold crowns and bridges in place.牙医用黏固剂固定住齿冠和齿桥。
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Glues, gluing & stickiness
adhere
adherent
adhesion
adhesive
adhesively
binder
glue
glue gun
glue stick
gluey
glutinous
gummy
plaster
putty
Scotch tape
self-adhesive
slimily
sliminess
tacky
viscid
cement
verb[ T ]
uk /sɪˈment/ us /səˈment/

cementverb[T] (STICK TOGETHER)


to put cement on a surface or stick things together using cement(在表面)涂上水泥,(用水泥或粘合剂)粘合
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Covering and adding layers
additive
asphalt
bestrew
bind
blanket
blindfold
film
film over
gum
gum something up
inlaid
lag
retread
seasoned
slap
slap something on
smother something in/with something
spackle
tent
wax

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Glues, gluing & stickiness

cementverb[T] (MAKE STRONGER)


to make something such as an agreement or friendship stronger: 加强,巩固(协议或友谊)
The university's exchange scheme has cemented its links with many other academic institutions.这所大学的交流计划加强了与许多其他学术机构的联系。
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Becoming and making stronger
aggrandize
boil up
bolster
character-building
concentrated
deepen
hardening
invigoration
jell
power (something) up
reconcentrate
reinforcement
restrengthen
self-reinforcing
sharpen
solidification
solidify
soup
soup something up
wired

cement | American Dictionary


cement
noun[ U ]
us/sɪˈment/
a gray powder that is mixed with water, sand, and other substances, becomes very hard when dry, and is used in making concrete
Cement also means concrete:
There weren’t any chairs, so she sat on the cement.
cement
verb[ T ]
us/sɪˈment/
to attach firmly, or to cover with cement:
The dentist cemented the tooth back in place.
If you cement an agreement or relationship, you make it unlikely to change:
She cemented the sale with a down payment.

Examples of cement


cement
Religion is still defined as ' any pursuit which dominates the life of many men and cements them together in common dedication to an aim' (159).
The pebbles cemented in guano, are in a swale about 10 m east of the 1911 hut porch.
Located along the edges of the pyramid were ten more qualities (honesty, sincerity, integrity, faith, patience, etc.) cementing the entire structure in place.
Meanwhile, they cemented his spiritual intimacy with his more intellectually and spiritually inclined father.
In addition to grains of different composition, sandstones also contain mineral cements and grain coatings.
Fiscal reform was a critical component of this, as it contributed both to redressing distortionary state interventions and to cementing fragile macroeconomic stabilisation plans.
Medium-grained sandstones (protoquartzite) contain quite well-rounded quartz grains, quartzite lithoclasts, muscovite, plagioclase (rare) and bioclasts, especially echinoderm plates, cemented by calcite spar.
What follows is a succession of medium-grey mudstones, which are also shelly and locally silty, interbedded with thin cemented horizons and organicrich layers.
The present day petrography of this formation shows a medium-grained and well-sorted quartzite with syntaxial quartz cements and virtually zero porosity.
Such anomalously low values can be attributed to overprinting by isotopically light cements precipitated during diagenesis of the organic-rich intervals.
Through gift-giving, women are cementing exchange relations with their natal kin as security against extreme adversity.
The very pre-eminence of the crown, in fact, cemented the fundamental coincidence of interests between oligarchs and monarchs.
In the 1950s and 1960s, a number of laboratory studies cemented the view that social influence has nefarious consequences on otherwise rational individuals.
Alternatively, surface stereom could have been filled with syntaxial cements and then etched out during weathering.
As the storm swell dissipated, the continued application of layer-parallel shear stresses macerated any stratigraphy not already cemented to form the platy, intraclastic matrix.
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cement block
Cementblock partitions in conveniences which, to specification, should have been nine inches, were put in at 14 inches, and had to be pulled down and replaced.
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Hansard archive

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cement factory
Good progress has been made with the preliminary work, and a cementfactory is about to come into operation.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
cement floor
Around 1958, a cementfloor was added and the roof to the porch was raised.
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