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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

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 Rosse, Irving C. (Irving Collins)

Waxy when moist, rigid when dry, agglutinate, lurid.

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

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

In the Copepoda they are agglutinated together into masses attached to the body of the female.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" by Various

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

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 Michener, Charles B.

From a thousand miles around, the devils were mustering for their prey, agglutinating, in order that the meal of one might become the meal of all.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 by Various

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 Haddon, Alfred Court

“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 Bate, John




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