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agglutinate

adj
/əˈɡluːtɪnət//əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- Proto-Indo-European *glóh₁ytn̥ Proto-Italic *gloiten Latin glūten Latin glūtinō Latin agglūtinō Latin agglūtinātuslbor. English agglutinate From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).

  1. learned borrowing from agglūtinātus

Definitions

  1. United with glue or as with glue

    United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

  2. Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.

    • an agglutinate language
    • an agglutinate family of languages

  3. To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance

    To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

    • This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied.
    • The mud of the streets of London is then merely the dust or detritus of the granite of which they are composed, agglutinated either with rain or the water from the watering-carts.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. To form clusters or lumps

      To form clusters or lumps; to clump.

      • It is […] a strong and valuable coal which does not agglutinate in burning.
      • If the test cells are contaminated with bacteria, they may agglutinate even in the absence of specific antibodies.
      • In this test, if the [red blood cells] agglutinate, it indicates that antibodies are present in the serum.

    2. To form through agglutination.

    3. A clump of agglutinated material.

      • In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.

    4. Agglutinated material.

      • The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.

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Derived

agglutinin, antiagglutinating, autoagglutinate, autoagglutinating, haemagglutinating, macroagglutinate, nonagglutinated, nonagglutinating, subagglutinating, unagglutinated

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for agglutinate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA