Bricklaying vs. Cement — What's the Difference?

One who builds with bricks.

A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together.

The act of building a wall by laying bricks, usually with cement between the surfaces of the bricks.

A building material made by grinding calcined limestone and clay to a fine powder, which can be mixed with water and poured to set as a solid mass or used as an ingredient in making mortar or concrete.

The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

Portland cement.

The craft of laying bricks

Concrete.

A substance that hardens to act as an adhesive; glue.

Something that serves to bind or unite

(Geology) A chemically precipitated substance that binds particles of clastic rocks.

(Dentistry) A substance used for filling cavities or anchoring crowns, inlays, or other restorations.

Variant of cementum.

To join or cover with cement

To make binding; establish or strengthen

To become cemented.

A powdered substance produced by firing (calcining) calcium carbonate (limestone) and clay that develops strong cohesive properties when mixed with water. The main ingredient of concrete.

(uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water, or the rock-like substance that forms when it dries.

(uncountable) Any material with strong adhesive and cohesive properties such as binding agents, glues, grout.

(figurative) A bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.

(anatomy) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

(transitive) To affix with cement.

(transitive) To overlay or coat with cement.

To unite firmly or closely.

(figuratively) To make permanent.

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

A kind of calcined limestone, or a calcined mixture of clay and lime, for making mortar which will harden under water.

Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship, or men in society.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; - called also cementum.

To unite or cause to adhere by means of a cement.

To unite firmly or closely.

To overlay or coat with cement; as, to cement a cellar bottom.

To become cemented or firmly united; to cohere.

Concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement;

A building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar

Something that hardens to act as adhesive material

Any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth

A specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth

Make fast as if with cement;

Cover or coat with cement

Bind or join with or as if with cement