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agglutinate

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

verb tr., intr.:

1. To form words by combining words or word elements.

2. To join or become joined as if by glue.

3. To clump or cause to clump, as red blood cells.



adjective:

1. Joined or tending to join.

2. Relating to a language that makes complex words by joining words or word elements extensively. For example as in Turkish.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin gluten (glue). Earliest documented use: 1541.

USAGE:







"There were two kinds of blood on that laboratory floor, and they do not agglutinate."

Arthur B. Reeve; The Dream Doctor; Echo; 2007. "Like Turkish, Tuyuca is heavily agglutinating, so that one word, hóabãsiriga means 'I do not know how to write.'" Tongue Twisters: In search of the world's hardest language ; The Economist (London, UK); Dec 17, 2009."There were two kinds of blood on that laboratory floor, and they do not agglutinate."Arthur B. Reeve; The Dream Doctor; Echo; 2007.

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