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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

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

Lepidoptera: scale-winged: an order of insects with spirally coiled haustellate mouth structures; head free; thorax agglutinate; transformations complete four scale-covered wings.

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

In Astrorhiza the sand grains are loosely agglutinated, without mineral cement; they leave numerous pores for the exit of the protoplasm, and there are no true pylomes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

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 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

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

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

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


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