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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

Waxy when moist, becoming rigid when dry, confluent, agglutinate, radiating.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

One or two instances may suffice to show the agglutinate character of the language.

From The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants by Irving C. (Irving Collins) Rosse

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

They now stood solitary which had before been an agglutinated mass.

From Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett

There are also numerous verbal formative elements given by McCabe himself, so that Angami must clearly be included in the agglutinating order.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

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

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 J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre

But no admixture, except of Chinese literary terms, is seen in the Manchu language, which, like Mongolic, is a typical member of the agglutinating Ural-Altaic family.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

The Tasmanians spoke a fairly copious agglutinating language, well marked as to parts of speech, syntax and inflexion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various




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