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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

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

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

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

The transposition of the agglutinated particles would present no difficulty; cf.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

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

Speech, almost everywhere in the agglutinating state, generally with suffixes.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Thus, while the Abkhasian of group 1 is still at the agglutinating, the Lesghian of group 2 has fairly reached the inflecting stage, and the Georgian seems still to waver between the two.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various

“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

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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