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noun
- A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
- The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
- Any material with strong adhesive properties.
- (count noun) A particular type or brand of cement.
verb
- To affix with cement.
- (figuratively) To ensure an outcome.
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| chert |
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noun ()
- An impure, massive, generally dull colored, flintlike quartz or hornstone. By general usage in mineralogy and geology, a chert does not have a conchoidal fracture. By general North American usage in archaeology (archeology) the term chert has been used until recently for quartzes (including flint) with a conchoidal fracture.
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| cleavage |
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noun
- The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline.
- The act of cleave, cleaving or the state of being cleft.
- (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes.
- (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones.
- (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis.
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| cobble |
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noun - A cobblestone.
verb (cobbl, ing)
- To make shoes (what a cobbler does).
- To assemble ('cobble together' an improvised assembly).
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| cobblestone |
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noun
- A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.
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