What does agglutinate mean?
Agglutinate means United with glue or as with glue; cemented together..
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/əˈɡluːtɪnət/ · adjective
United with glue or as with glue; cemented together..
an agglutinate language
an agglutinate family of languages
This is a medicine, and hath a mud of that nature, that it both agglutinateth and hardneth that whereupon it is applied.
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.
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.
[…] 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.
It is […] a strong and valuable coal which does not agglutinate in burning.
If the test cells are contaminated with bacteria, they may agglutinate even in the absence of specific antibodies.
Use agglutinate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Agglutinate means United with glue or as with glue; cemented together..
Common synonyms include adhesive, agglutinative.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
an agglutinate language
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