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cement
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)
- (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.
- (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.
- (uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.
- (figuratively) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
- (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)
- (transitive) To affix with cement.
- (transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.
- (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.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene 1, [1]
- (figuratively) To make permanent.
Translations
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t?s?m?nt]
Noun
cement m
- 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
- 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)
- cement (powder, paste)
Derived terms
- cementmolen
- cementpoeder
- cementtegel
- cementvloer
- cementwater
- cementzak
- metselcement
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sement
- ? Indonesian: semen
- ? West Frisian: semint
Middle English
Noun
cement
- 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
- cement
Declension
Derived terms
- cementowy
- cementowa?
Further reading
- cement in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French cément.
Noun
cement n (plural cementuri)
- 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 ??????)
- cement
Declension
Swedish
Noun
cement c
- cement
Declension
Related terms
- cementblandare
cement From the web:
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link
- For Wiktionary's links, see Wiktionary:Links
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlen?e, hlen?a (“ring; chainkink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.
Noun
link (plural links)
- A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.
- 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres
- One element of a chain or other connected series.
- Abbreviation of hyperlink.
- (computing) The connection between buses or systems.
- (mathematics) A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.
- (Sussex) a thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.
- (figuratively) an individual person or element in a system
- 2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:
- 2010, William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler, Universal Principles of Design, RockPort, page 262:
- 2010, Stephen Fairweather, The Missing Book of Genesis, AuthorHouse, page 219:
- 2010, James O. Young, My Sheep Know My Voice: anointed poetry, AuthorHouse, page 32:
- Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.
- A sausage that is not a patty.
- (kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.
- (engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.
- (surveying) The length of one joint of Gunter's chain, being the hundredth part of it, or 7.92 inches, the chain being 66 feet in length.
- (chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.
- (in the plural) The windings of a river; the land along a winding stream.
- 1822, Allan Cunningham, "The King of the Peak", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 1, p. 222.
- 'Dame Foljambe,' said the old man, 'the march of thy tale is like the course of the Wye, seventeen miles of links and windings down a fair valley five miles long. […] '
- 1822, Allan Cunningham, "The King of the Peak", in Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry, v. 1, p. 222.
- (broadcasting) An introductory cue.
- 2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook (page 53)
- Too much talk on a music-based station can cause listeners who tune in for the music to go elsewhere. […] 'Some people will say “your link has to be 45 seconds long” but I don't do that,' explains the programme controller of Trent FM, Dick Stone.
- 2002, Carole Fleming, The Radio Handbook (page 53)
Synonyms
- (connection between things): connection; See also Thesaurus:link
Holonyms
- (element of a connected series): chain
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- link farm
Translations
Verb
link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)
- (transitive) To connect two or more things.
- 1813, John Chetwode Eustace, A Tour Through Italy
- All the tribes and nations that composed it [the Roman Empire] were linked together, not only by the same laws and the same government, but by all the facilities of commodious intercourse, and of frequent communication.
- 1813, John Chetwode Eustace, A Tour Through Italy
- (intransitive, of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page.
- (transitive, Internet) To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.
- (transitive, Internet) To post a hyperlink to.
- (transitive) To demonstrate a correlation between two things.
- (software compilation) To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.
Synonyms
- (to connect two or more things): affix, attach, join, put together; see also Thesaurus:join
Derived terms
- link in
- link out
- link up
Translations
Etymology 2
Plausibly a modification of Medieval Latin linchinus (“candle”), an alteration of Latin lynchinus, itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (lúkhnos, “lamp”).
Noun
link (plural links)
- (obsolete) A torch, used to light dark streets.
- You were coming out of the Italian Opera, ma’am, in white satin and jewels, a blaze of splendour, when I hadn’t a penny to buy a link to light you.’
Derived terms
- linkboy
- linkman
Translations
Etymology 3
Origin unknown.
Verb
link (third-person singular simple present links, present participle linking, simple past and past participle linked)
- (Scotland, intransitive) To skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Translations
See also
- Malvern Link
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- kiln
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l??k]
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
link m
- link, hyperlink
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English link (since 1995).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lenk/, [le???]
Noun
link n (singular definite linket, plural indefinite link or links)
- link (hyperlink)
Inflection
Synonyms
- hyperlink
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??k/
- Hyphenation: link
- Rhymes: -??k
Etymology 1
Adjective
link (comparative linker, superlative linkst)
- dangerous
- (criminal slang) sly; cunning
- (slang) jolly, nice
Inflection
Derived terms
- linkerd
- linkmiegel
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English link, only since late 20th century.
Noun
link m (plural links, diminutive linkje n)
- physical connection, as in a hardware cable
- (figuratively) logical connection, as in reasoning about causality
- hyperlink
Synonyms
- (physical connection): verbinding
- (logical connection): verband
- (hyperlink): koppeling, verwijzing
Derived terms
- linken
References
- M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]
German
Etymology
From Middle High German linc, from Old High German *link; compare Old High German linka (“the left hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??k/
Adjective
link (comparative linker, superlative am linksten)
- left
- sly; cunning
- dangerous
Declension
Further reading
- “link” in Duden online
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?li?k]
- Rhymes: -i?k
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English link.
Noun
link (plural linkek)
- link, hyperlink
- Synonyms: hivatkozás, hiperhivatkozás
Declension
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Yiddish ????? (link), from German link (“left”).
Adjective
link (comparative linkebb, superlative leglinkebb)
- (colloquial) flighty, fickle, fishy, shifty, sleazy, phoney (unreliable, irresponsible, often dishonest)
- Synonyms: könnyelm?, léha, komolytalan, megbízhatatlan, szélhámos
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- (flighty, fickle, sleazy): link in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English link.
Noun
link m (invariable)
- (computing) link (hyperlink)
- Synonym: collegamento
Derived terms
- linkare
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [li?k]
Preposition
l?nk
- toward (used with genitive case)
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
Compare German link.
Adjective
link
- left, left-hand
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English link.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?ink/
Noun
link m inan
- link, hyperlink
Declension
Synonyms
- hiper??cze
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English link.
Noun
link m (plural links)
- (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)
- Synonyms: linque, hiperligação, ligação
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English link.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?link/, [?l??k]
Noun
link m (plural links)
- (computing) link (text or a graphic that can be activated to open another document)
- Synonym: enlace
Derived terms
- linquear
link From the web:
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- what links together to form protein
- what links the frontline and support trenches
- what links neurons to each other
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- what linked northern and southern china
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