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How to pronounce “mortar”
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Pronunciation guide for mortar
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of mortar with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
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Had bricks-and-mortar banks played the “Pre-Mortem Game,”
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
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How to pronounce mortar
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Had bricks-and-mortar banks played the “Pre-Mortem Game,”
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “mortar”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]
- (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
- To fire a mortar (weapon).
- To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
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