Lexic.us

Definition of Agglutinate

1. Verb. String together (morphemes in an agglutinating language).

2. Adjective. United as if by glue.

3. Verb. Clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc..

Definition of Agglutinate

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

2. a. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.

Definition of Agglutinate

1. Adjective. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together. ¹

2. Adjective. (linguistics) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. ¹

4. Verb. (linguistics) To form through agglutination. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Agglutinate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Medical Definition of Agglutinate

1. 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; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See: agglutination. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Agglutinate

aggiornamento aggiornamentos agglomerate agglomerated agglomerates agglomerating agglomeration agglomerations agglomerative agglomerator

agglutin agglutinability agglutinable agglutinant agglutinants agglutinate (current term) agglutinated agglutinates agglutinating agglutinating activity

agglutinating antibody agglutination test agglutinations agglutinative agglutinative thrombus agglutinatively agglutinin agglutinins agglutinogen

Literary usage of Agglutinate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"Teeth narrowly linear-lanceolate, long, divided to near the base into two subulate free or partly agglutinate rarely entire segments. ..."

2. Language by Andrew Findlater (1876)
"The distinction between Inflectional and agglutinate Languages not absolute.—In contrasting one language as inflectional with another as agglutinate, ..."

3. Language by Andrew Findlater (1879)
"The distinction bet'ween Inflectional and agglutinate Languages not absolute.—In contrasting one language as inflectional with another as agglutinate, ..."

4. Reports of the Commission Appointed by the Admiralty, the War Office, and by Royal Society of London (1905)
"A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF THE BLOOD OF PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL, TO DETERMINE IF OTHER THAN MEDITERRANEAN FEVER SERA WOULD agglutinate THE MICROCOCCUS ..."

5. Therapeutic Gazette (1908)
"By this method one can determine whether the serum of the donee will agglutinate the blood of the donor, and one is informed as to the degree of the ..."

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