Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cause to adhere, as with glue.
- v. Linguistics To form (words) by combining words or words and word elements.
- v. Physiology To cause (red blood cells or bacteria) to clump together.
- v. To join together into a group or mass.
- v. Linguistics To form words by agglutination.
- v. Physiology To clump together; undergo agglutination.
- n. See agglutination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To unite or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; unite by causing an adhesion.
- United as by glue; characterized by adherence or incorporation of distinct parts or elements: as, an agglutinate language. (See below.) In botany, grown together: equivalent to accrete: applied also to fungi that are firmly attached to the matrix. Sometimes written adglutinate.
- In bacterial., to cause the coalescence or clumping of (bacteria or red blood-corpuscles).
Wiktionary
- adj. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
- adj. linguistics Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.
- v. transitive To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
- v. linguistics To form through agglutination.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
- adj. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
- adj. (Physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; See Agglutination, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- v. string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- adj. united as if by glue
- v. clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
Etymologies
- From Latin agglutinatus, past participle of agglutinare, adglutinare ("to glue or cement to a thing"), from ad ("to") + glutinare ("to glue"), from gluten ("paste, glue"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin agglūtināre, agglūtināt- : ad-, ad- + glūtināre, to glue (from glūten, glue). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A red-hot molten mess shot through with glassy globules known as agglutinate, common on the moon but rare on Earth.”
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“The fact appears to be, that these are what are now called agglutinate languages, and, like those of all savage tribes, in a continual course of alteration -- also often using a long periphrastic description to convey an idea or form a name.”
Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field
“Again, by other chemical substances produced in it, the blood may, without actually killing the invading bacteria, only paralyse them, and cause them to "agglutinate" (that is, to adhere to one another as an inactive "clot" or "lump").”
“John Baden writes, there is diminishing support for institutions that generate wealth rather than redistribute it...both positive and negative values increasingly converge and agglutinate.”
“They agglutinate particles including volcanic fragments, foraminifera (a type of single-celled animal) and glass chips to form a test which can be up to 25cm.”
“In fractures of the ears, neither bandages nor cataplasms should be used; or, if any bandage be used, it should be put on very tight; the cerate and sulphur should be applied to agglutinate the bandages.”
“Two — four — six — eight, English should agglutinate!”
“We discuss a mathematical model of contexts which allows a context to split into several contexts, agglutinate from several contexts, or to constellate out of relatively acontextual processing.”
“The ghost of a gist of an explanation for at least a few previously impenetrable imponderables began to agglutinate amongthe eddies of the Inspector's thoughts.”
“Landsteiner had shown that under normal physiological conditions the blood serum will not agglutinate the erythrocytes of the same individual or those of other individuals with the same structure.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘agglutinate’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Victorious Verbs
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Insulting or rather nasty words
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mereological verb/adjectives
A class of words I'm interested in. It'll be a short list I think, but I think I've not thought of them all. I like that they're used both as adjectives and as verbs; and that they speak to the rel...
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adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
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my words
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word list
abandon, ache, augment, avow, atone, approbate, apprehend, abut, apostatize, abase, abash, abate and 155 more...
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karnage's Words
furbelow, farinaceous, fendrake, rhizobium, imbricate, quaquaversal, exstasis, grapheme, scissiparity, apterous, obdurant, omphalos and 135 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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Winter 12
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ohmymissmari's Words
uxorious, jiffy, coruscate, oxidize, corrode, incinerate, smelt, agglutinate, amalgamate, agglomerate, conglomerate, chaotic and 13 more...
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misguggle, ken, sere, etiolated, gelid, digladiate, popinjay, bathykolpian, conglaciation, hyperborean, callipygian, vagile and 1253 more...
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just words that I like
elegy, ostensibly, foray, purposiveness, parsimony, sanguine, discombobulate, conundrum, agglutinate, vociferous, omphaloskepsis, disputatious and 3 more...
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GRE
abet, abstruse, absurd, abundant, abuse, abut, abysmal, acclimate, accolade, accost, accrete, acme and 32 more...
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yarb Ants show much attention to the eggs of their own species, fondling them, licking them, agglutinating them in packets, and rearranging them many times a day.
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 106 Dec 11, 2008