Synonym: fasten, secure, solidify, weld. Similar words: commencement, enticement, placement, inducement, effacement, enforcement, replacement, advancement. Meaning: [sɪ'ment] n. 1. concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement 2. a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar 3. something that hardens to act as adhesive material 4. any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth 5. a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth. v. 1. make fast as if with cement 2. cover or coat with cement 3. bind or join with or as if with cement.
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91. A confusion of lorries and cement mixers defaced the area just past the green.
92. We shall have to postpone cement, and with it our lighthouse on that windy point.
93. This has an effect rather like that of a cement mixer.
94. Cusack has an idea that perhaps we can come up with an additional line to cement the scene.
95. I would strongly commend this idea to the cement industry.
96. I ask about the strange cement houses built into the hillsides.
97. There was however a brighter side to the cement industry.
98. We walked carefully together(Sentencedict.com), clicking our sandals on the cement drive.
99. Electrical cables draped it like jungle vines; cement peeled from its facade like slabs of granite from Junagadh mountain.
100. Anhydrite was used in the production of ammonium sulphate and cement.
101. The load, as heavy as three sacks of cement, seemed immovable.
102. He ordered two barracks torn down and a fountain constructed on the cement base of a latrine.
103. The remaining growth will be in industry - mainly the cement industry.
104. The wooden door creaks open, scraping on the cement floor.
105. Off the room was a bathroom with a bucket, a shower tap and a cement floor.
106. Many building materials such as lime mortars and plasters, Portland cement and asbestos cement develop alkalis.
107. Both Democrats and Whigs wanted to gloss over sectional differences and cement party loyalties, not divide the country.
108. Anticipating the attacks, de Lattre had strengthened the Red River valley with hundreds of cement blockhouses and new airfields.
109. Bed down on fire cement,(http://sentencedict.com/cement.html) allowing it to dry before filling in behind it.
110. Place a plastic bag in your pot and fill with ready mixed cement.
111. As production methods improved the clinker produced was harder and the cement had to be more finely ground.
112. A Sea King helicopter from 202 Squadron at Lossiemouth airlifted sand and cement, enabling the cairn to be built insitu.
113. Tests carried out on the Baromix Minor Electric Cement mixers found serious faults, with loose and unsafe wiring.
114. Now, suppose that you were to file through the cement and drop the bricks side by side as before.
115. Alternatively, you can use a mix of one part cement to five parts ballast.
116. The solvent-weld cement gives off powerful fumes and should not be used in a confined space.
117. They passed a cement mixer that was being operated by two men in dusty overalls.
118. We have also lost jobs in the cement industry and there are question marks over the Point of Ayr colliery.
119. Two bags of cement were parked behind the fence, and a stepladder there, leading to the top.
120. Albert Batchelor constructed a small cement works on the site known as Clinkham works which continued to operate until 1931.
More similar words: commencement, enticement, placement, inducement, effacement, enforcement, replacement, advancement, displacement, announcement, reinforcement, entitlement, element, clement, demented, inclement, increment, vehement, dementia, basement, tenement, pavement, movement, elements, amusement, atonement, complement, abasement, abatement, supplement.