Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

  2. (intransitive)To form clusters or lumps; to clump.

  3. To form through agglutination.

More definitions
  • clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
  • string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Turkish is an agglutinating language.

    Турецька — аглютативна мова. — deniko

    ruТурецкий — агглютинативный язык. — odexed

    deDas Türkische ist eine agglutinierende Sprache. — Adelpa

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Translations

3 languages

Origin

From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement t

From Latin agglūtinātus, past participle of agglūtināre, adglūtināre (“to glue or cement to a thing”), from ad (“to”) + glūtināre (“to glue”), from glūten (“paste, glue”).

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Forms

agglutinates, agglutinating, agglutinated, agglutinated
Base formagglutinate · to agglutinate
3rd person singularagglutinates
Present participleagglutinating
Past simpleagglutinated
Past participleagglutinated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyagglutinate
he, she, itagglutinates

Past simpleLesson

all personsagglutinated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave agglutinated
he, she, ithas agglutinated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill agglutinate

Word family

14 related words
Relatedagglutinationagglutinativeagglutinant
Derivedagglutinatoragglutininantiagglutinatingautoagglutinateautoagglutinatinghaemagglutinatingmacroagglutinatenonagglutinatednonagglutinatingsubagglutinatingunagglutinated

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
agendaB1agentA2agglomerationagglutinativeaggravate
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