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|part of speech:
||a powder made of clay and rock that becomes hard when you add water. Cement is used as a building material.
The sidewalk is made of cement.
- similar words:
- asphalt, concrete, pavement
The nouns cement
are often confused. Cement
is a powder made of crushed rock and minerals. It is an ingredient of concrete. Concrete
is a hard, strong building material made of cement and sand or gravel mixed with water. Cement is often mixed into concrete in large trucks at a building site.