Mortared

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. In a technique involving a bonding agent, different materials are cohesively brought together for structural integrity
2. It refers to the process of joining various elements using a binding mix to ensure firmness and resilience
3. A method of binding disparate components with a cohesive substance to create a stable and durable structure can be described this way

Etymology: "Mortared" is the past form of "mortar", which in its oldest sense named the bowl in which substances were pounded or ground. That bowl came from Latin "mortārium", and the word reached English through Old French "mortier" and Middle English "morter". Latin "mortārium" and the English word "mortar" are doublets: two forms of the same ancestor that arrived by different routes, with "mortarium" kept as a learned borrowing and "mortar" coming through everyday French speech. The sense of the adjective grew out of the building material. Mortar, the paste that binds bricks or stones, took its name from the same vessel, presumably because it was mixed and worked in a similar container. Once the verb developed from that substance, "to mortar" meant fixing things together with it, and the past form "mortared" describes parts that have been joined in this way, here extended to materials bonded by an adhesive agent rather than by traditional mortar.

Synonyms: cemented, bonded, joined, attached, fixed