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agglutinate

[uh-gloot-n-eyt, uh-gloot-n-it, -eyt] / əˈglut nˌeɪt, əˈglut n ɪt, -ˌeɪt /




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It urges those who work in it to agglutinate and machinate.

From Economist Oct. 27, 2016

Thus, there was something in the serum of immune individuals that could specifically bind to and agglutinate bacteria.

From Textbooks Jun. 19, 2013

The European Cup is the great promise, the hope, the agglutinate, the objective into which all else is subsumed.

From The Guardian Feb. 9, 2013

When they wish to increase their nest by a new layer, they take advantage of the first wet day, the rain serving to agglutinate and unite the materials.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The agglutinated heads represent “all her children,” she added — but also perhaps “her other selves.”

From New York Times Sep. 15, 2022

That description applies to far more than one foram… The new squatter has a stark difference from Hospitella – its test is agglutinated, or composed of small particles stuck together.

From Scientific American Jun. 12, 2013

Yet for millennia, these bulky lawn mowers have entranced humans with the agglutinated hair that makes up their horns.

From Time Jun. 11, 2011

Studies by pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-La Roche and the Zoological Society of London have reported no medicinal value in rhino horn, which, like fingernails, is composed of agglutinated hair and contains proteins like keratin.

From Time Jun. 11, 2011

"And of the agglutinated dust—" "Which is quickened with a passion you do not take into account,—the passion of duty, of race, of God!"

From A Daughter of the Snows by London, Jack

Thus, while the Abkhasian of group 1 is still at the agglutinating, the Lesghian of group 2 has fairly reached the inflecting stage, and the Georgian seems still to waver between the two.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

Gubbins, more especially for mixing emery with agglutinating material for making emery wheels; and a machine is at work on this material in the manufactory of the Standard Emery Wheel Company, Greek Street, Soho.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

Confirm these results by testing the organisms isolated against specific agglutinating sera obtained from experimentally inoculated animals.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)

A clammy and agglutinating sweat then occurred over the cranium, the hair became unctuous, stuck together, and appeared distended with an adhesive matter of reddish-brown color, believed by many observers to be sanguineous.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)

This substance possesses the power of collecting together in clumps and masses, or agglutinating watery suspensions of that particular microbe.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)




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