[
US
/əˈɡɫutɪˌneɪt/
]
ADJECTIVE
- united as if by glue
VERB
- string together (morphemes in an agglutinating language)
- clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc.
How To Use agglutinate In A Sentence
- Although the APMV-5 HN protein has neuraminidase activity, it neither hemagglutinated nor hemadsorbed RBCs of chickens, turkeys, guinea pigs, horses, or human O-group, either at 37°C or at 4°C. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- In addition to the presence of neutralizing antibodies, in vitro studies have shown that human adenovirus type 5 hemagglutinates human erythrocytes and is partially inactivated by the classical complement system.
- The ‘mixed field’ results with anti-A sera showed one large agglutinate with ‘free cells’ in the background.
- Mecoptera: long-winged: neuropterous insects with similar, large, unfolded wings; mouth mandibulate, prolonged into a beak: head free; thorax agglutinated; transformations complete: the scorpion flies or Panorpidae. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
- The ghost of a gist of an explanation for at least a few previously impenetrable imponderables began to agglutinate amongthe eddies of the Inspector's thoughts. The Mocking Program
- The isolate revealed to be able to agglutinate chicken haemocytes with the agglutination reaction to be inhibited by Newcastle disease virus standard antiserum.
- All from a common origin: the early Late IE enclitic relative pronoun *yə accented *ya, agglutinated to the verb centuries before PIE proper. Thoughts on the early Indo-European subjunctive 1ps ending
- The direct agglutination test, in which stained parasites are agglutinated by serum antibodies, is popular in Iran and Africa, but variation between batches and the high cost of commercially available antigen are limiting factors.
- The pronouns in Sumerian are gender indifferent just like in Uralic and Altaic and are also affixed to the morpheme and become part of the agglutinated phrase.
- French-based Creoles are notable for such fused forms in which the noun is agglutinated to the article, as Haitian Creole dlo ‘water’, which corresponds to the French sequence of words de l' eau.