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.
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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121. I wanted to grab my head and shake the cement out of it.
122. His bare feet scraping on the gritty cement pavement made such an unpleasant sound that Fakhru decided not to follow too closely.
123. Mr Blackhurst is the retired chairman of Belle Engineering of Sheen, cement mixer and earth mover manufacturers.
124. Broken glass lay scattered over the cement floor, along with pieces of brick, broken flowerpots, dead leaves.
125. Especially Phagu, on whom responsibility lay like a cement overcoat.
126. There were about twenty people waiting in the surgery, sitting on the cement floor.
127. It took those games to cement his decision on a basketball coach.
128. Even in the hands of an accomplished player, the accordion sounds like a refrigerator being dragged across a cement floor.
129. A cement foundation of a farmhouse was still standing, and a few moldy lilac bushes shielded the barracks from view.
130. The result: a perpetual cement famine, official rationing and enormous corruption.
131. His backup was cement, and he knew exactly what profit margin to expect on it.
132. Faklirti and his family moved into a cement room at the back of the house.
133. In Aspdin's day cement manufacture was undergoing relatively rapid development and many experimenters were working in the field.
134. Many are held by firms as reserves against liabilities, or to cement business relationships.
135. Declines in Bogota were across the board, with key banks and cement companies falling.
136. Industrial-strength decor with steel shelves and cement floors, copper and glass, and greenery.
137. Measured on the carbon dioxide scale, it emitted 2.109 metric tons percapita in 1986 from fossil fuels and cement production.
138. Recently I've made three dogs out of wood and cement, chasing a deer up a slope in Grizedale.
139. Red brick dormitories and concrete buildings that rose like geometric blocks from a foundation of asphalt and cement. Sentencedict.com
140. Moreover, the technology that is commonly available for large cement factories is inappropriate for most developing countries.
141. The deal would consolidate Lafarge's position as the world's leading cement company.
142. Texas-Lehigh Cement Company in Buda was recently granted a permit to burn tires for fuel.
143. It can also deteriorate cement, brick and wood and eventually contaminate ground water.
144. He was paid twelve dollars an hour to dig ditches and mix cement.
145. The president must be given every assistance - political and economic - to cement democracy and make his gamble pay off.
146. The company supplies building materials such as bricks and cement.
147. In the early days ordinary mill-stones were used as the clinker was soft and the cement need not be finely ground.
148. The paving is laid on a bed of mortar 3 parts sand to 1 part cement.
149. Every major site needs a constant supply of this slurry of cement, stones, gravel, and water.
150. The prospect of designing among nature rather than battling with cement and glass and housing estates appealed enormously.
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.