agglutinate

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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").

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  1. transitive verb To cause to adhere, as with glue.
  2. transitive verb Linguistics To form (words) by combining words or words and word elements.
  3. transitive verb Physiology To cause (red blood cells or bacteria) to clump together.

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  • It is always possible to agglutinate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • For there is such a tendency of ideas to agglutinate, and so become more prominent, as we can see two bubbles together in a pool more readily than one that we can very soon learn to recall many images in this way But after a time a certain limit is reached which most minds cannot transgress. —  The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence
  • That in which sensations and perceptions continue to coalesce, agglutinate, and combine in more or less complex aggregations, according to the laws of the association of sensible perceptions.--Association The above four groups contain only indeliberate operations consisting, as they do at the best, but of mere presentative sensible ideas in no way implying any reflective or representative faculty. —  Critiques and Addresses
  • That in which sensations and perceptions continue to coalesce, agglutinate, and combine in more or less complex aggregations, according to the laws of the association of sensible perceptions.--Association The above four groups contain only indeliberate operations, consisting, as they do at the best, but of mere presentative sensible ideas in no way implying any reflective or representative faculty. —  Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02
  • For, gentlemen, there were two kinds of blood on that laboratory floor, and they do not agglutinate. —  The Dream Doctor
 

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  1. Latin agglūtināre, agglūtināt- : ad-, ad- + glūtināre, to glue (from glūten, glue).

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  1. from Latin agglutinatus, past participle of agglutinare, adglutinare, paste to, from ad, to, + glutinare, paste, from gluten, paste, glue: see gluten and glue.
  2. from Latin agglutinatus, past participle: see the verb.
 

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