Mastic vs. Mortar — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Mastic and Mortar
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Mastic
The mastic tree.
Mortar
A short smooth-bore gun for firing shells (technically called bombs) at high angles
Mortars and machine guns
Nine civilians died in a horrific mortar attack
Mastic
The aromatic resin of the mastic tree, used in varnishes and as a flavoring and formerly in chewing gum and as a medicine.
Mortar
A cup-shaped receptacle in which ingredients are crushed or ground, used in cooking or pharmacy
A pestle and mortar
Mastic
Any of various substances used as an adhesive or sealant.
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Mortar
A mixture of lime with cement, sand, and water, used in building to bond bricks or stones.
Mastic
A pastelike cement used in highway construction, especially one made with powdered lime or brick and tar.
Mortar
Attack or bombard with a mortar
At first light the mortaring and sniping started
The Commando positions were being heavily mortared
Mastic
An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean.
Mortar
Fix or join using mortar
The pipe can be mortared in place
Mastic
A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring.
Mortar
A vessel in which substances are crushed or ground with a pestle.
Mastic
An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin.
Mortar
A machine in which materials are ground and blended or crushed.
Mastic
A flexible, waterproof cement used as an adhesive, sealant or filler.
Mortar
A portable, usually muzzleloading cannon used to fire shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
Mastic
A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (Pistacia Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; - called also, mastic tree.
Mortar
A shell fired by such a cannon.
Mastic
A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.
Mortar
Any of several similar devices, such as one that shoots life lines across a stretch of water.
Mastic
A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc.
Mortar
A short, usually stationary, muzzleloading cannon used from the 1700s to early 1900s to fire large round shells at low velocities, short ranges, and high trajectories.
Mastic
An aromatic exudate from the mastic tree; used chiefly in varnishes
Mortar
Any of various bonding materials used in masonry, surfacing, and plastering, especially a mixture of cement or lime, sand, and water that hardens in place and is used to bind together bricks or stones.
Mastic
A pasty cement used as an adhesive or filler
Mortar
To bombard with mortar shells.
Mortar
To plaster or join with mortar.
Mortar
(uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
Mortar
(countable) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
Mortar
(countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
Mortar
(countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
Mortar
(transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
Mortar
(transitive) To pound in a mortar.
Mortar
To fire a mortar (weapon).
Mortar
To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
Mortar
A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
Mortar
A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45°, and even higher; - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
Mortar
A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; - used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
Mortar
A chamber lamp or light.
Mortar
To plaster or make fast with mortar.
Mortar
A muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range
Mortar
Used as a bond in masonry or for covering a wall
Mortar
A bowl-shaped vessel in which substances can be ground and mixed with a pestle
Mortar
Plaster with mortar;
Mortar the wall
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