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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

Odonata: net-veined insects with mandibulate mouth; head free; thorax agglutinate; wings similar, elongate, flat; metamorphosis incomplete; copulatory organs of male near base of abdomen, separate from the testes.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

Hymenoptera: membrane-winged: an ordinal term applied to insects with four membranous wings with few veins, the anterior usually larger than the posterior; mouth mandibulate; head free; thorax agglutinate, transformations complete.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith

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

Tuff, a sand rock formed by agglutinated volcanic rock.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Her viewing the subject of religion from the osteric standpoint of Christian exegetical analysis, and agglutinating the polsynthetical ectoblasts of homogeneous asceticism.

From Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity by Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

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

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

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

There may be a mucopurulent discharge, which may be slight or profuse in quantity, agglutinating the hairs of the tail.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener




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