Cement(n.) Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
Cement(n.) A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
Cement(n.) The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
Cement(n.) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.
Cement(n.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum.
Cement(n.) To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.
Cement(n.) To unite firmly or closely.
Cement(n.) To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.
Cement(v. i.) To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.
Cemental(a.) Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes.
Cementation(n.) The act or process of cementing.
Cementation(n.) 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 iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
Cemented(imp. & p. p.) of Cement
Cementer(n.) A person or thing that cements.
Cementing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cement
Words within cementations