agglutinating
Causing to clump
Agglutinating describes the process of sticking or clumping together.
Blood cells agglutinate when they encounter incompatible antibodies.
In linguistics, agglutinating languages like Turkish or Swahili build words by stringing together distinct units of meaning: Turkish "evlerimden" combines pieces meaning "house," "plural," "my," and "from."
Word-modifying additions
- suffixesElements following roots
- prefixesElements preceding roots
- infixesMorphemes embedded within words
- morphemesSmallest meaningful language units
affixation · derivational · inflectional · conjugation · declension · agreement · tense · aspect
Examining by decomposition
- isolatingSetting apart from contact
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
- TurkishOf Anatolia's republic
- FinnishLanguage of Finland
Hungarian · Korean · Swahili · Japanese · Estonian · Basque · Quechua · Turkic
Forming close connections
- adheringRemaining attached to
- clumpingForming into lumps
- stickingHolding fast to
- coalescingCombining into single entity
clustering · cohering · aggregating · conglomerating · amassing · accumulating · collecting · gathering
Heat-fusing metal pieces
- meltingSolid-to-liquid transition
- solderingLow-temp metal fusion
- joiningLinking into one
- fusingJoining by melting
amalgamating · blending · combining · merging · unifying · integrating · consolidating · splicing
affixes
Word-modifying additions
- suffixesElements following roots
- prefixesElements preceding roots
- infixesMorphemes embedded within words
morphemes · affixation · derivational · inflectional · conjugation · declension · agreement · tense · aspect · mood
analytic
Examining by decomposition
- isolatingSetting apart from contact
- syntheticProduced artificially, not natural
- TurkishOf Anatolia's republic
Finnish · Hungarian · Korean · Swahili · Japanese · Estonian · Basque · Quechua · Turkic · Bantu
bonding
Forming close connections
coalescing · clustering · cohering · aggregating · conglomerating · amassing · accumulating · collecting · gathering · lumping
welding
Heat-fusing metal pieces
fusing · amalgamating · blending · combining · merging · unifying · integrating · consolidating · splicing · alloying
agglutinatingdispersing
Spreading widely apart
separating · scattering · dissociating · disaggregating · dissolving