different between cement vs bricklaying

English

Alternative forms

• caement (archaic)
• cæment (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English syment, cyment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caed? (“I cut, hew”). Doublet of cementum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?nt/
• (US South) IPA^(key): /?sim?nt/
• Hyphenation: ce?ment

Noun

cement (countable and uncountable, plural cements)

1. (countable, uncountable) A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.
2. (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
3. (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
4. (figuratively) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

5. (anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

See also

• concrete

Verb

cement (third-person singular simple present cements, present participle cementing, simple past and past participle cemented)

1. (transitive) To affix with cement.
2. (transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To unite firmly or closely.
   • c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 1, [1]

     For they have entertained cause enough

     To draw their swords: but how the fear of us

     May cement their divisions and bind up

     The petty difference, we yet not know.

   • 1840, John Dunlop, The Universal Tendency to Association in Mankind. Analyzed and Illustrated, London: Houlston and Stoneman, page 103:

     Olympic Games. — Besides the ordinary confederacies that join independent states together, a singular federal bond is remarkable in the Olympic games, which for many ages cemented the Grecian commonwealths by a joint tie of recreation and religious ritual.

4. (figuratively) To make permanent.

Translations

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?s?m?nt]

Noun

cement m

1. cement

Further reading

• cement in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• cement in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Noun

cement c

1. cement

Related terms

• cementblandar

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ciment, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??m?nt/
• Hyphenation: ce?ment
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

cement n (uncountable)

1. cement (powder, paste)

Derived terms

• cementmolen
• cementpoeder
• cementtegel
• cementvloer
• cementwater
• cementzak
• metselcement

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sement
• ? Indonesian: semen
• ? West Frisian: semint

Middle English

Noun

cement

1. Alternative form of syment

Polish

Etymology

From German Zement, from late Middle High German c?ment, from earlier z?ment, z?mente, from Old French ciment, from Latin caementum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?.m?nt/

Noun

cement m inan

1. cement

Declension

Derived terms

• cementowy
• cementowa?

Further reading

• cement in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French cément.

Noun

cement n (plural cementuri)

1. cementum

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Zement, from Latin caementum (“quarry stone; stone chips for making mortar”), from caedo (“I cut, hew”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s?ment/
• Hyphenation: ce?ment

Noun

cèment m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. cement

Declension

Swedish

Noun

cement c

1. cement

Declension

Related terms

• cementblandare

English

Etymology

brick +? laying

Noun

bricklaying (countable and uncountable, plural bricklayings)

1. The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.
   • 1912, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Mother Carey (page 127)

     Mr. Popham never worked at his bricklayings or carpentering or cabinet making or papering by the hour, but “by the job”; and a kind Providence, intent on the welfare of the community, must have guided him in this choice of business methods, […]

See also

• bricklayer