agglutinate

Meanings

• verb

  To form a compound word by adding a suffix or prefix to the root, without altering the meaning of the root.

  - "The chemist agglutinated the red and white blood cells for analysis."
  - "The teacher agglutinated the students' names on the board."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with agglutinate
acclimate , determine , climate

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Variants

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agglutinate , agglutinated , agglutinates , agglutinating

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Etymology

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From the Latin word 'agglutinare', meaning 'to make sticky' or 'to cause to cling'. In biology, it refers to the clumping together of cells or particles.

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Trivia

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1. Did you know that agglutination is the process by which bacteria and viruses form clumps, making them easier to be removed from the body by the immune system?

2. In linguistics, agglutinative languages are often referred to as inflectional languages because they use affixes extensively to convey grammatical meaning.

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Related Concepts

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1. morphology: The study of the forms and structures of words and their relationship to meaning.

2. affix: A morpheme that is added to a base word to form a new word or to modify the meaning of the base word.

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Culture

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In linguistics, agglutination is a common morphological process in many languages, particularly in agglutinative languages like Turkish, Finnish, and Hungarian.

How to Memorize "agglutinate"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine the root word sticking to the suffix or prefix like glue.
   - Visualize the process of adding a suffix or prefix to a root word to form a new word.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'agglutinate' with the idea of sticking or clinging together.
   - Remember that agglutination involves adding a suffix or prefix to a root word.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'Agglutinate is a verb that makes words stick together.' to remember the meaning and definition of the word.

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