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agglutinate

[uh-gloot-n-ayt, uh-gloot-n-it, -ayt] / 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

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 Noah Webster

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

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

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

From Time ● Jun. 11, 2011

Horns consist of closely agglutinated epidermic cells, forming small columns or rods; in the columns themselves the cells are arranged concentrically.

From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon

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

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 Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

“I have gained it from the esoteric stand-point of Christian exegetical analysis; and agglutinating the polsynthetical ectoblasts of homogeneous asceticism, I perceive at once the absolute individuality of this definition.”

From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate

The Ober-Deutsch was fuller and fonder of agglutinating words together, although it was not so soft in its sounds.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge

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




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