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Cementing

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.

  2. To unite firmly or closely.
    --Shak.

  3. To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

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cementing

vb. (present participle of cement English)

Usage examples of "cementing".

In fact, the shrewd little oyster responds to its environment, clasping a twig with claws or cementing itself to an unembraceable host in accordance as contingencies insist.

But allowing to the scheme some coherence and some duration, it appears to me that if, after a while, the confiscation should not be found sufficient to support the paper coinage (as I am morally certain it will not), then, instead of cementing, it will add infinitely to the dissociation, distraction, and confusion of these confederate republics, both with relation to each other and to the several parts within themselves.

The able arrangement of this part is the more difficult, and requires the greatest skill and attention, not only as the great concern in itself, but as it is the third cementing principle in the new body of republics which you call the French nation.

If so, Lanzecki was going to be very busy over the next few weeks, cementing links between Jezerey, Rimbol -- and then Killashandra's sense of humor over ruled vile whimsies.

Vacuum cementing fused parts in the first American satellites and in the first Soviet interplanetary probes.

Vacuum cementing keeps the Moon from being fathoms deep in meteor dust.

It happened at a time when I was interested— and I had been two years previously occupied— in an attempt to convert cast-iron into steel, without fusion, by a process of cementation, which had for its object the dispersion or absorption of the superfluous carbon contained in the cast-iron,— an object which at that time appeared to me of so great importance, that, with the consent of a friend, I erected an assay and cementing Furnace at the distance of about two miles from the Clyde Works.

At the latter end of the year 1798 I left my chambers, and removed from the Clyde Works to the distance of about a mile, where I constructed several furnaces for assaying and cementing, capable of exciting a greater temperature than any to which I before had access.

How deftly does it arrange its courses and bonds, cementing each fragment in its place until a perfect cylinder, proportionate in dimensions, uniformly expanding in circumference, smooth within, rugged without, scientifically correct in design, is the result!