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Word Meanings - CEMENTITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.

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  • CEMENTATION
    A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus
  • CEMENT
    Etym: 1. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. Bp. Burnet. 2. To unite firmly or closely. Shak. 3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
  • NATURED
    Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
  • CEMENTATORY
    Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.
  • NATURELESS
    Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
  • CEMENT STEEL
    Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.
  • FORSYTHIA
    A shrub of the Olive family, with yellow blossoms.
  • CEMENTAL
    Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.
  • CEMENTITIOUS
    Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.
  • NATURE
    1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
  • CEMENTER
    A person or thing that cements.
  • SCARCEMENT
    An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • SEDUCEMENT
    1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • UNNATURE
    To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
  • TRADUCEMENT
    The act of traducing; misrepresentation; ill-founded censure; defamation; calumny. Shak.
  • REPLACEMENT
    The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • PRODUCEMENT
    Production.
  • DEMINATURED
    Having half the nature of another. Shak.
  • TIME SIGNATURE
    A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
  • ENHANCEMENT
    The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
  • ORNATURE
    Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
  • INTERLACEMENT
    The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also, that which is interlaced.
  • CONSIGNATURE
    Joint signature. Colgrave.
  • DOLCE; DOLCEMENTE
    Softly; sweetly; with soft, smooth, and delicate execution.
  • BALANCEMENT
    The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Darwin.
  • INTRODUCEMENT
    Introduction.
  • ENTICEMENT
    1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
  • TRANSNATURE
    To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.

 

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