Cemented
[sɪ'mɛnt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Cement
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Examples
- It is idle to accuse him of leaving education alone, because the idea that empires must be cemented by education was still foreign to human thought. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Biot on the action of fluids on light, he placed the fluids in a trough formed by two plates of glass cemented together at an angle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The window in the cold room has three sets of sash, well packed or cemented. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is then warmed gently and the glue applied, which is so very strong that the parts thus cemented never separate. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Indeed, even the platinum point, which in the early form of the Reis transmitter pressed against the platinum contact cemented to the centre of the diaphragm, was a microphone. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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