<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any of various calcined mixtures of clay and limestone, usually mixed with water and sand, gravel, etc., to form concrete, that are used as a building material.</li><li>Any of various soft, sticky substances that dry hard or stonelike, used especially for mending broken objects or for making things adhere.</li><li>Petrography: The compact groundmass surrounding and binding together the fragments of clastic rocks.</li><li>Anything that binds or unites: Time is the cement of friendship.</li><li>Dentistry: A hardening, adhesive, plastic substance, used in the repair of teeth for anchoring fillings or inlays, for filling, or for fastening crowns.</li><li>Informal: Cementum.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To unite by or as if by cement: to cement stones to form a wall; to cement a relationship.</li><li>Synonyms: Secure, fuse, bind, join, merge.</li><li>To coat or cover with cement: to cement a floor.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To become cemented; join together or unite; cohere.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>