单词 | uncemented |
释义 | uncementedadj. a. (un- prefix1 2.) ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [adjective] > coated or stopped with cement or mortar > not unmortared1603 uncemented1717 1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 28 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 286 Ancient wall of huge uncemented stones grown rough with age. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 312 Some huge fragments of uncemented blocks. 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. vi. 61 With all the joints, perhaps uncemented, or imperfectly filled up with cement, open to the sky. b. transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > not joined, united, or connected uncoupled1377 unjoined1538 unclosed1551 unknitting1587 ununited1587 unknit1603 incommunicated1646 discontiguous1656 incontiguous1660 open1686 inconnected1742 disconnected1751 incoherent1768 uncemented1783 unconnected1829 disaffiliated1839 disconnect1845 inarticulate1852 unarticulated1861 ununified1862 1783 Beattie Theory Lang. ii. iv. 480 This uncemented composition has of late become fashionable among the French and their imitators. 1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 53 That, uncemented by blood, the noble and simply majestic temple of liberty will arise. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxix. 397 The state itself has seemed..to become a mere collection of uncemented atoms. 1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) 412 Subdued, but warlike nations, uncemented into one with the conquering empire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1717 |
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