mortar
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mor·tar
(môr'tər) 
n.
n.
- A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
- A machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed.
- A portable, muzzleloading cannon used to fire shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
- Any of several similar devices, such as one that shoots life lines across a stretch of water.
- Any of various bonding materials used in masonry, surfacing, and plastering, especially a plastic mixture of cement or lime, sand, and water that hardens in place and is used to bind together bricks or stones.
- To bombard with mortar shells.
- To plaster or join with mortar.
[Middle English morter, from Old English mortere and from Old French mortier, both from Latin mortārium.]
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Material used in building construction to bond brick, stone, tile, or concrete blocks into a structure. The ancient Romans are credited with its invention. Mortar consists of sand mixed with cement and water. The resulting substance must be sufficiently flexible to flow slightly but not collapse under the weight of the masonry units. Before the 19th-century invention of portland cement, masons used thin joints of lime mortar, which required greater precision than the thicker joints of portland-cement mortar and were not as strong. For tilework, a very thin mortar called grout is used. Pointing is the process of finishing a masonry joint.
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A binding agent used in construction of clay brick, concrete masonry, and natural stone masonry walls and, to much less extent, landscape pavements. Modern mortars are improved versions of the lime and sand mixtures historically used in building masonry walls. See also Brick; Masonry.
Masonry mortar is composed of one or more cementitious materials, such as masonry cement or portland cement and lime, clean sand, and sufficient water to produce a plastic, workable mixture.
Mortars are closely related to concrete but, like grout, generally do not contain coarse aggregate. Mortars function with the same calcium silicate-based chemistry as concrete and grouts, bonding with masonry units into a contiguous, weatherproof surface in the process. Masonry cement or portland cement-lime mortars can be formulated to address job-specific requirements including setting time, rate of hardening, water retentivity, and extended workability. See also Cement; Concrete; Grout; Lime (industry).
Plastic material to bond stones and bricks together. Before C20 it was usually made from crushed burnt limestone mixed with sand and water, often with additional brick- or stone-dust. Today, Portland cement is used with sand and water, sometimes with lime or other additives.
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mortar
in building
in warfare
in warfare
mortar, in building, mixture of lime or cement with sand and water, used as a bedding and adhesive between adjacent pieces of stone, brick, or other material in masonry construction. Lime mortar, a common variety, consists usually of one volume of well-slaked lime to three or four volumes of sand, thoroughly mixed with sufficient water to make a uniform paste easily handled on a trowel. Lime mortar hardens by absorption of carbon dioxide from the air. Once universally used, lime mortar is now less important because it does not have the property of setting underwater and because of its comparatively low strength. It has largely been supplanted by cement mortar, commonly made of one volume of Portland cement to two or three volumes of sand, usually with a quantity of lime paste added to give a more workable mix. Cement mortar, besides having a high strength, generally equal to that of brick itself, has the very great advantage of setting or hardening underwater. Other varieties include gauge mortar, for rapid setting, composed of plaster of Paris used either pure or combined with lime or with lime and sand, and grout, a thin liquid mixture of lime or cement, poured into masonry to fill up small interstices. Primitive mortars took various forms: in early Egypt, Nile mud was used as an adhesive; the Mesopotamians used bitumen (the slime mentioned in Genesis) or sometimes a mixture of clay, water, and chopped straw, to cement together their unbaked bricks; Greeks of the Mycenaean era probably employed a soft bituminous clay. The advanced Greek buildings are notable for their construction without mortar, the huge blocks of stone being consummately fitted with dry beds. The Romans likewise used little mortar in cut stonework or vaulting but in later periods bedded the rough stone of their mass masonry in strong cement mortar. In medieval times and in all periods since, mortar of some sort has been almost universally used in masonry construction.
mortar, in warfare, term originally applied to certain types of artillery with high trajectories, but later applied to an infantry weapon that consists of a tube supported by a bipod that fires a projectile at a very high trajectory. The mortar is not usually classified as artillery. Unlike standard types of artillery, mortars need no complex recoil equipment and are usually smoothbore and muzzle-loaded. Their weight is light in relation to the weight of shell delivered, but at the expense of range and accuracy. First developed by Sir Frederick Stokes during World War I, the mortar was used by infantry in trench warfare and is standard equipment in modern armies.
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Mortar
An ancient field weapon that fires a projectile in a high arch to reach an impact point.
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1. wooden or ceramic vessel with a rounded internal surface, used with a pestle, for reducing a solid to a powder or producing a homogeneous mixture of solids.
2. a material used to cement bricks in place.
- m. licking — a form of pica usually ascribed to a nutritional deficiency of calcium.
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categories related to 'mortar'
- Tools, Tests, Units, and Scales - mortar: round dish used with pestle for crushing and grinding solids
- Adhesives and Binders - mortar: mixture of lime or cement with sand and water, used to bind bricks or stones in building or as plaster
- Miscellaneous Tools, Objects, and Supplies - mortar: hard receptacle in which material is ground or pounded with pestle
- Receptacles and Casks - mortar: small, bowllike porcelain vessel used to pound substances with pestle
- Guns and Firearms - mortar: short cannon
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Mortar
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Mortar has several meanings:
- Mortar (weapon), an indirect-fire artillery piece that fires shells at a much-lower velocity and higher ballistic arc than other artillery
- Mortar (firestop), a hydraulic cementitious material used to firestop through-penetrations in wall and floor assemblies required to have a fire-resistance rating
- Mortar (masonry), a material used in masonry to fill the gaps between blocks and bind them together
- Mortar and pestle, a vessel and implement used to crush or grind materials
- Mortar methods, discretization methods for partial differential equations
- Mortarboard, a flattened type of headwear normally worn as part of academic dress
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Mortar
Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - [mil.] mortér
v. tr., -
v. intr. - binde med mørtel, [mil.] affyre, skyde med
2.
n. - mørtel
v. tr. - mure
idioms:
- mortar board mørtelbræt
Nederlands (Dutch)
mortier, metselspecie, vijzel
Français (French)
1.
n. - (Mil) mortier, pilon et mortier
v. tr. - (Mil) attaquer au mortier
v. intr. - (Mil) attaquer au mortier
2.
n. - (Constr, Pharm) mortier, enduit de ciment, (Culin) égrugeoir
v. tr. - (Constr) lier (les pierres) avec du mortier
idioms:
- mortar board (GB, Univ) toque (d'étudiant ou de professeur d'Université)
Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Mörser, Minenwerfer
v. - mit dem Minenwerfer beschießen
2.
n. - Mörtel
v. - mörteln, mit Mörtel verbinden od. befestigen
idioms:
- mortar board (Univ.) Barett
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - γουδί, (οικοδ.) κονίαμα, ασβεστοκονίαμα, λάσπη, (στρατ.) όλμος, χτίζω με λάσπη
v. - χτίζω με λάσπη
idioms:
- mortar board (οικοδ.) πηλοφόρι, (μτφ.) ακαδημαϊκός πίλος
Italiano (Italian)
mortaio, malta
idioms:
- mortar board giornello (da muratore)
Português (Portuguese)
n. - morteiro (m), almofariz (m), argamassa (f)
v. - cimentar
idioms:
- mortar board tábua de argamassa (f)
Русский (Russian)
ступка, миномет, известковый раствор, обстреливать минометным огнем, скреплять раствором
idioms:
- mortar board доска для приготовления строительного раствора
Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - mortero, cañón pequeño de tiro casi vertical, recipiente y maza para moler a mano
v. tr. - disparar con mortero, moler con mortero
v. intr. - disparar con mortero, moler con mortero
2.
n. - argamasa, almirez
v. tr. - arreglar o cubrir con argamasa
idioms:
- mortar board birrete, esparavel
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mortel, granatkastare, raketapparat, murbruk
v. - mura
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
臼, 灰泥, 研钵, 用灰泥涂抹, 用灰泥结合
idioms:
- mortar board 学士帽, 学位帽
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 臼, 灰泥, 研缽
v. tr. - 用灰泥塗抹, 用灰泥結合
idioms:
- mortar board 學士帽, 學位帽
한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 박격포
v. tr. - 박격포로 사격하다
v. intr. - 박격포를 발사하다
2.
n. - 회반죽
v. tr. - 회반죽을 바르다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - モルタル, 乳鉢, すり鉢, 粉砕機, 臼砲, 迫撃砲, 臼砲状の発射器
v. - モルタルを塗る, 臼砲で射撃する
idioms:
- bricks and mortar ノートと本, 家屋
- mortar board こて板
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) هاون (فعل) يسحق
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - מדוכה, מכתש, מרגמה
v. tr. - הפגיז (במרגמה)
v. intr. - הופגז במרגמות
n. - טיח, מלט
v. tr. - טייח
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