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agglutinate

[uh-gloot-n-eyt, uh-gloot-n-it, -eyt] / 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

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

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

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

A score or so of semi-human forms, agglutinated into a mass, and yet individually discernible.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 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

The Tasmanians spoke a fairly copious agglutinating language, well marked as to parts of speech, syntax and inflexion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" 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

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

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




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