Cement vs Secure - What's the difference?
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(label) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
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, title= (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
(label) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
(label) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
(label) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.
To affix with cement.
To overlay or coat with cement.
(figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
(figuratively) To make permanent.
* "But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit;" David Hume,
Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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Cement is a synonym of secure.
As verbs the difference between cement and secure
is that cement is to affix with cement while secure is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.As a noun cement
is (label) a powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.As an adjective secure is
free from attack or danger; protected.cement
English
(wikipedia cement)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
Derived terms
* Keene's cement * masonry cement * Portland cementSee also
* concreteVerb
(en verb)- to cement a cellar bottom
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secure
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Alternative forms
* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
- (Macaulay)
Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}