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NOUN (5)

1. concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement;
- Example: "they stood on the grey cement beside the pool"

2. a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar;

3. something that hardens to act as adhesive material;

4. any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth;

5. a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth;
[syn: cementum, cement]


VERB (3)

1. make fast as if with cement;
- Example: "We cemented our friendship"

2. cover or coat with cement;

3. bind or join with or as if with cement;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cement \Ce*ment"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cemented; p. pr. & vb. n. Cementing.] [Cf. F. cimenter. See Cement, n.] 1. To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster] 2. To unite firmly or closely. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cement \Ce*ment"\, v. i. To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere. --S. Sharp. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cement \Ce*ment"\ (s[e^]*m[e^]nt" or s[e^]m"[e^]nt), n. [OF. cement, ciment, F. ciment, fr. L. caementum a rough, unhewn stone, pieces or chips of marble, from which mortar was made, contr. fr. caedimentum, fr. caedere to cut, prob. akin to scindere to cleave, and to E. shed, v. t.] 1. Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water. [1913 Webster] 3. The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2. [1913 Webster] 4. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society. "The cement of our love." [1913 Webster] 5. (Anat.) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. [1913 Webster] Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cement n 1: concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement; "they stood on the grey cement beside the pool" 2: a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar 3: something that hardens to act as adhesive material 4: any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth 5: a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth [syn: cementum, cement] v 1: make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship" 2: cover or coat with cement 3: bind or join with or as if with cement
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

233 Moby Thesaurus words for "cement": Tarmac, Tarvia, accouple, accumulate, adamant, adhere, adherent, adhesive, adobe, affix, agglutinate, amass, anchor, annex, articulate, ashlar, asphalt, assemble, associate, attach, band, barnacle, belay, bind, biscuit, bisque, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, bond, bone, bony, bowl, bracket, bramble, braze, brick, bricks and mortar, bridge, bridge over, brier, bulldog, burr, carpet, causeway, cemental, ceramic ware, ceramics, chain, china, cinch, clamp, clap together, clinch, cling, clinker, cobble, cobblestone, cohere, collect, combine, comprise, concatenate, concrete, conglobulate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, corneous, couple, cover, covering materials, cramp, crock, crockery, curb, curbing, curbstone, decal, decalcomania, dense, diamond, diamondlike, dure, edgestone, embrace, enamelware, encompass, engraft, fasten, ferroconcrete, firebrick, fix, flag, flagging, flagstone, flint, flintlike, flinty, floor, flooring, fuse, gather, glass, glue, graft, granite, granitelike, granitic, grapple, gravel, grout, gum, gunk, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, heart of oak, hold, horny, include, iron, iron-hard, ironlike, join, jug, kerb, kerbstone, knit, knot, lapideous, lath and plaster, lay together, league, leech, limpet, link, lithoid, lithoidal, lump together, macadam, make fast, marble, marblelike, marry, marshal, masonry, mass, mastic, merge, metal, mobilize, molasses, moor, mortar, mucilage, nails, oak, obdurate, osseous, pair, parget, paste, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, pebble, piece together, plaster, plasters, porcelain, pot, pottery, prestressed concrete, prickle, put to, put together, refractory, remora, resistant, resistive, road metal, rock, rocklike, rocky, roll into one, roofage, roofing, roughcast, screw up, secure, set, set to, siding, solder, solid, span, splice, steel, steellike, steely, stick, stick together, sticker, stone, stonelike, stony, stucco, syrup, take in, tape, tar, tarmacadam, thorn, tie, tighten, tile, tiling, tough, trice up, trim, unify, unite, urn, vase, walling, washboard, weld, yoke
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Cement, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma Population (2000): 530 Housing Units (2000): 284 Land area (2000): 0.451786 sq. miles (1.170120 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.451786 sq. miles (1.170120 sq. km) FIPS code: 13000 Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40 Location: 34.935441 N, 98.137320 W ZIP Codes (1990): 73017 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Cement, OK Cement