cement mixer
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3.5
- noun
- /sɪˈmɛnt ˈmɪksər/
:
mezcladora de cemento
- He drives a cement mixer, which requires power and gas, two things they don't have.
- an old cement mixer
But wouldn't that just mean limited myself a cement mixer stuck in one motion, even if it helps build a house?
- But wouldn't that just mean limited myself a cement mixer stuck in one motion, even if it helps build a house?
Examples
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The construction crew used a cement mixer to prepare the concrete for the new sidewalk.
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I purchased a cement mixer for his farm.
Blog text (8) -
A huge, rusted-out cement mixer behind the gate stood out against the night sky like some misbegotten carnival ride.
Fiction book (1998) -
I tempered our new formula to withstand additional humidity and loaded up a cement mixer.
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Bulldozers, cranes, cement mixers, and drills leveled the hills out in Westwood, creating new buildings and streets.
Fiction book (1999) -
At the site, a large cement mixer was spinning to combine the materials needed for the foundation.
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We watched as the cement mixer poured the concrete into the forms for the building's base.
Synonyms
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3.4
A machine with a large rotating drum that mixes cement, sand, gravel, and water to make building material
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'cement' (the building material) + 'mixer' (a device that mixes) yields a machine that mixes cement to make concrete. This follows a common noun–noun compound pattern and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Cement mixer shows a simple, literal picture: a big drum that turns to mix cement with sand, stones, and water. The word mixer means 'something that mixes', so the phrase today means 'a machine that mixes cement to make concrete'.