Helen Fenton

Census: Definition and part of speech

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Census

  1. n. An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.
  2. n. A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; — usually made once in five years.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cent: Definition and part of speech

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Cent

  1. n. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; — so called because 100 points won the game.
  2. n. A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a hundred.
  3. n. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar, formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cement: Definition and part of speech

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Cement

  1. n. The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; — called also cementum.
  2. n. Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.
  3. n. A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.
  4. n. The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n., 2.
  5. n. Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Cementation: Definition and part of speech

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Cementation

  1. n. A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
  2. n. The act or process of cementing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.