Cement vs Strength - 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,
The quality or degree of being strong.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= The intensity of a force or power; potency.
* 1699 , ,
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
* Bible, (Psalms) xlvi. 1
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
A positive attribute.
(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
(obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job IV:
As nouns the difference between cement and strength
is that cement is a powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water while strength is the quality or degree of being strong.As verbs the difference between cement and strength
is that cement is to affix with cement while strength is to give strength to; to strengthen.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
- (Shakespeare)
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strength
English
Noun
(en noun)- Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength —all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- God is our refuge and strength .
- Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* fortitude * power * ability * capability * potency * expertiseAntonyms
* (The quality of being strong) weakness * (A positive attribute) weaknessDerived terms
* bond strength * compressive strength * crushing strength * dielectic strength * fatigue strength * field strength * full-strength * impact strength * industrial-strength * inner strength * ionic strength * party strength * pillar of strength * relative strength * shear strength * strengthen * strengthening * strengthful * strengthless * strengthy * superstrength * tensile strength * tower of strength * ultimate strength * understrength * wet strength * yield strengthVerb
(en verb)- Lo! thou hast tau?t ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
- (Chaucer)