Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Cement"

A: I think the person's referring to killing someone by putting cement shoes on so they drown when thrown in the water.

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A: "cement" as a verb means to make secure or permanent. It's a metaphor for putting something into cement, where it can never move.

"self-loathing" means hatred for oneself.

"to cement our self-loathing" means to make our hatred of ourselves stronger or more permanent.

A: Cement is a material that is originally soft but hardens from the air. It's used to build sidewalks and buildings

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A: cement? the material to build a house?

A: Thanks a lot for the help.

A: In this image, The cement is the bricks and the mortar is the 'glue' holding the bricks together

A: To bond something together = To hold something together.

Glue is used to bond things together.

Cement can be used to bond things together. Most of the time when I hear cement in america, I think of a different kind of cement, the cement used to build things, like the cement steps you see in the picture I attached.

A: Many English speakers use the terms interchangeably in everyday speech, but technically, cement is the binding material (like glue) that is used as one part of the recipe for concrete.

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“ a saying that spin is spin around it’s own axis. Rotate is rotate around any axis outside its body”...? Sorry, that’s nonsense.

The usual reason why we have two words for the same thing is that one comes from the ancient English language, and the other comes from Latin. And that is the case here – Spin comes from the ancient English word for the activity of spinning wool, and rotate comes from the ancient Latin word describing the motion of wheels and such things. Over time, they have become conflated and are mostly interchangeable in everyday life. They both have many specialised, individual uses in various disciplines – far too many to describe here. But for normal use, either one will do.

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all correct ✅
but the word “considered” would help here.

Cement mixers are considered heavy equipment.
A cement mixer is considered heavy equipment.
A cement mixer is a piece of heavy equipment. - this one does not need “considered “

A: I believe she said “mortar”

A: Means to make your position (as XYZ) more clearly established.

Winning a second World Series let the SF Giants cement their claim as one of the best teams of this decade.

They promoted me to CEO but I feel like I need to show a blow-out year to really cement my claim to be a truly effective leader.