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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

When they wish to increase their nest by a new layer, they take advantage of the first wet day, the rain serving to agglutinate and unite the materials.

From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay

This serves to agglutinate it into the form of concretions, constituting the tapioca of commerce.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

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

The little agglutinated cases of the caddis-worm remain as fossils in formations from which, perchance, most other traces of life may have passed away.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

This substance possesses the power of collecting together in clumps and masses, or agglutinating watery suspensions of that particular microbe.

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

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

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

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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