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agglutinate

/əˈɡluːtɪnət/

agglutinate adjective: united with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

Adjective

agglutinate

  1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
  2. Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning.
    • an agglutinate language
    • an agglutinate family of languages

Verb

IPA/əˈɡluːtɪneɪt/

agglutinate (third-person singular simple present agglutinates, present participle agglutinating, simple past and past participle agglutinated)

  1. (transitive) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
    • This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied.1614, Seneca the Younger, chapter 20, in Thomas Lodge, transl., Of Natvrall Qvestions, Book 3, page 817
    • This is farther evident in the making glue of the dry skins of beasts and of fishes; and paste of starch; whose agglutinating quality is owing solely to the proportions of water absorbed, or intermixed by infusion, maceration, or decoction.1739, Alexander Stuart, Three Lectures on Muscular Motion, page xxxv
  2. (intransitive) To form clusters or lumps; to clump.
    • It is […] a strong and valuable coal which does not agglutinate in burning.1856, J. W. Foster, Report upon the Mineral Resources of the Illinois Central Railroad, page 13
    • If the test cells are contaminated with bacteria, they may agglutinate even in the absence of specific antibodies.1973, Addine G. Erskine, Principles and Practice of Blood Grouping, page 27
  3. To form through agglutination.

Noun

agglutinate (countable and uncountable, plural agglutinates)

  1. (countable) A clump of agglutinated material.
    • In some soils, agglutinates are a major constituent.
  2. (uncountable) Agglutinated material.
    • The formation of agglutinate is more abundant in mature regolith.

agglutinate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

agglutinate in Tamil

உருட்டு, திரட்டு, திரள்வு, சேர்த்து ஒட்டப்பட்ட, சேர்த்து ஒட்டு, சேர்த்து ஒன்றுபடுத்து

agglutinate in Urdu

چِپکانا, چِپکا دینا, چَسپاں کَرنا, مِلا دینا

agglutinate in Bengali

সংযুক্ত করা

agglutinate in Kannada

ಅಂಟಿಸು, ಅಂಟಿಕ್ಕು, ಹತ್ತಿಸು

Examples of agglutinate in a sentence

  • The mud of the streets of London is then merely the dust or detritus of the granite of which they are composed, agglutinated either with rain or the water from the watering-carts.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 2, page 188:
  • […] sea water in which unfertilized eggs have been left for some time […] agglutinates the spermatozoa by their heads, increases their motility, and keeps them active for a longer time.1974, Jean Brachet, Introduction to Molecular Embryology, page 68:
  • In this test, if the [red blood cells] agglutinate, it indicates that antibodies are present in the serum.2012, Sandra A. Jacobson, Laboratory Medicine in Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, page 102:

Forms of agglutinate

Verb
third-person singular presentagglutinates
present participleagglutinating
past participleagglutinated
pastagglutinated
Noun
pluralagglutinates

Origin of agglutinate

From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).

Words formed from agglutinate

Questions about agglutinate

What does agglutinate mean?
Agglutinate means united with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
What is agglutinate in Tamil?
Agglutinate in Tamil is உருட்டு, திரட்டு, திரள்வு. See Agglutinate meaning in Tamil.
How do you use agglutinate in a sentence?
The mud of the streets of London is then merely the dust or detritus of the granite of which they are composed, agglutinated either with rain or the water from the watering-carts.
What part of speech is agglutinate?
Agglutinate can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce agglutinate?
Agglutinate is pronounced /əˈɡluːtɪnət/.

Words near agglutinate in the dictionary

  1. agglutinabilities
  2. agglutinability
  3. agglutinable
  4. agglutinant
  5. agglutinants
  6. agglutinate
  7. agglutinated
  8. agglutinates
  9. agglutinating
  10. agglutination
  11. agglutinations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: agglutinate (page history and authors); agglutinate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agglutinate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agglutinate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agglutinate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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