Word Meanings - CEMENTITIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of the nature of cement. Forsyth.
Related words: (words related to CEMENTITIOUS)
- 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.