Definition of Cement

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Cement

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.

Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.

To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.

To unite firmly or closely.

To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

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Cement Quotations

I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.
Rodney Dangerfield

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
Thomas Friedman

Palestine is the cement that holds the Arab world together, or it is the explosive that blows it apart.
Yasser Arafat

Woe to us if we get our satisfaction from the food in the kitchen and the TV in the den and the sex in the bedroom with an occasional tribute to the cement blocks in the basement!
John Piper

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.
Harry Stack Sullivan

To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
Robert Blair

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
Paul Muni

Cement Translations

cement in Danish is cement
cement in Dutch is cement
cement in French is cimentons, cimenter, ciment, cimentent, cimentez
cement in German is Bindemittel, Zement
cement in Italian is cemento
cement in Portuguese is cimento
cement in Spanish is pegamento, cemento
cement in Swedish is cement, sammanfoga, kitt, cementera

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