cementing

verbattach securely, often with sticky material

Synonyms for cementing

verb attach securely, often with sticky material

Antonyms for cementing

Word Origin & History

c.1300, from Old French ciment "cement, mortar, pitch," from Latin cæmenta "stone chips used for making mortar" (singular caementum), from caedere "to cut down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay" (see -cide). The sense evolution from "small broken stones" to "powdered stones used in construction" took place before the word reached English.

Example Sentences for cementing

In such a case the umbrella may be the means of cementing hearts.

Ordinary glue will serve perfectly for cementing glass to wood.

And Martin would know what to do about shingling the barn and cementing the cellar.

He found him basking in the sun in the grove Craneum, where he was cementing his tub.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

The bank on either side they were bricking up and cementing.

It was because he made use of the cementing Laws of the Memory.

He spent the time in cementing his power in Greece and Asia Minor.

Cementing may be done by hand or by machine, and the workers are not interchangeable.

Cementing the surface of the floor gives a clean smooth surface.