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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

One or two instances may suffice to show the agglutinate character of the language.

From The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants by Irving C. (Irving Collins) Rosse

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

"And of the agglutinated dust—" "Which is quickened with a passion you do not take into account,—the passion of duty, of race, of God!"

From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

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

“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

There are also numerous verbal formative elements given by McCabe himself, so that Angami must clearly be included in the agglutinating order.

From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon

Emery-wheels are made by consolidating the powdered mineral with an agglutinating medium like shellac or silicate of soda or vulcanized india-rubber.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 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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