What does agglutinate mean?

Definitions for agglutinate
əˈglut nˌeɪt; -ɪt, -ˌeɪtag·glu·ti·nate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. agglutinate, agglutinativeverb

    united as if by glue

  2. agglutinateverb

    string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)

  3. agglutinateverb

    clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. agglutinateverb

    To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

  2. agglutinateverb

    To form through agglutination.

  3. agglutinateadjective

    United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

  4. agglutinateadjective

    Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To AGGLUTINATEverb

    To unite one part to another; to join together, so as not to fall asunder. It is a word almost appropriated to medicine.

    Etymology: from ad and gluten, glue, Lat.

    It has got room enough to grow into its full dimensions, which is performed by the daily ingestion of food that is digested into blood; which being diffused through the body, is agglutinated to those parts that were immediately agglutinated to the foundation-parts of the womb. Gideon Harvey, on Consumptions.

Wikipedia

  1. agglutinate

    In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglutinative languages. Turkish is an example of an agglutinative language. The Turkish word evlerinizden ("from your houses") consists of the morphemes ev-ler-iniz-den, literally translated morpheme-by-morpheme as house-plural-your(plural)-from. Agglutinative languages are often contrasted with isolating languages, in which words are monomorphemic, and fusional languages, in which words can be complex, but morphemes may correspond to multiple features.

ChatGPT

  1. agglutinate

    Agglutinate generally refers to the process of joining or sticking together. In linguistics, it pertains to a type of language that uses a series of affixes to denote grammatical relationships. In biology or medicine, it describes the clumping together of cells or particles, often in response to an antigen.

  2. agglutinate

    Agglutinate generally refers to the process of adhering or clumping together, particularly in relation to substances, particles, or cells. In linguistics, it refers to the process of adding affixes to the base of a word to express grammatical relationships.

  3. agglutinate

    Agglutinate generally refers to the process of adhering, combining, or clumping together, typically in a way that forms a mass or group. Originally a term used in biology and immunology, it describes the clumping of cells or particles, especially due to an antibody or other substance. The term is also used in linguistics, referring to the combination of morphemes to create complex words.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Agglutinateverb

    to unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances

  2. Agglutinateadjective

    united with glue or as with glue; cemented together

  3. Agglutinateadjective

    consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2

  4. Etymology: [L. agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Agglutinate

    ag-glōōt′in-āt, v.t. to cause to adhere by glue or cement.—adj. Agglut′inant, uniting or causing to stick together.—ns. Agglut′inate, Agglut′inative, a classification formerly much used in contrast to inflectional, to describe such languages as Turkish, which show, in the words of Whitney, an inferior degree of integration in the elements of their words, or of unification of words, the suffixes and prefixes retaining a certain independence of one another and of the root or stem to which they are added; Agglutinā′tion, the act of uniting, as by glue: adhesion of parts.—adj. Agglut′inative, tending to or having power to cause adhesion. [L. agglutināread, to, gluten, glue. See Glue.]

Entomology

  1. Agglutinate

    stuck or glued together; welded into one mass.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of agglutinate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of agglutinate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9


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  • agglutinierenGerman
  • συγκολώGreek
  • liimattu, agglutinoiva, agglutinoida, liimataFinnish

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