Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To cause to adhere, as with glue.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To form (words) by combining words or words and word elements.
- intransitive verb Physiology To cause (red blood cells or bacteria) to clump together.
- intransitive verb To join together into a group or mass.
- intransitive verb Linguistics To form words by agglutination.
- intransitive verb Physiology To clump together; undergo agglutination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To unite or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; unite by causing an adhesion.
- United as by glue; characterized by adherence or incorporation of distinct parts or elements: as, an agglutinate language. (See below.)
- In bacterial., to cause the coalescence or clumping of (bacteria or red blood-corpuscles).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
- adjective United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
- adjective (Physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; See
Agglutination , 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective United with
glue or as with glue; cemented together. - adjective linguistics Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.
- verb transitive To
unite , or cause toadhere , as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. - verb linguistics To form through
agglutination .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- adjective united as if by glue
- verb clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A red-hot molten mess shot through with glassy globules known as agglutinate, common on the moon but rare on Earth.
One Small Step for Man, One Giant Mess in the Spacecraft 2009
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The fact appears to be, that these are what are now called agglutinate languages, and, like those of all savage tribes, in a continual course of alteration -- also often using a long periphrastic description to convey an idea or form a name.
Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Again, by other chemical substances produced in it, the blood may, without actually killing the invading bacteria, only paralyse them, and cause them to "agglutinate" (that is, to adhere to one another as an inactive "clot" or "lump").
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John Baden writes, there is diminishing support for institutions that generate wealth rather than redistribute it...both positive and negative values increasingly converge and agglutinate.
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John Baden writes, there is diminishing support for institutions that generate wealth rather than redistribute it...both positive and negative values increasingly converge and agglutinate.
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They agglutinate particles including volcanic fragments, foraminifera (a type of single-celled animal) and glass chips to form a test which can be up to 25cm.
Seamount 2008
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Two — four — six — eight, English should agglutinate!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths: 2007
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In fractures of the ears, neither bandages nor cataplasms should be used; or, if any bandage be used, it should be put on very tight; the cerate and sulphur should be applied to agglutinate the bandages.
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We discuss a mathematical model of contexts which allows a context to split into several contexts, agglutinate from several contexts, or to constellate out of relatively acontextual processing.
The Title of this Blog Chris 2004
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We discuss a mathematical model of contexts which allows a context to split into several contexts, agglutinate from several contexts, or to constellate out of relatively acontextual processing.
Archive 2004-10-01 Chris 2004
yarb commented on the word agglutinate
Ants show much attention to the eggs of their own species, fondling them, licking them, agglutinating them in packets, and rearranging them many times a day.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 106
December 11, 2008