concrete
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
concrete
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
- Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
- Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.
- The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract.
- Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.
- concrete ideas
- United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.
- The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
- (modifying a noun, not comparable) Made of concrete, a building material.
- The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
- (perceivable) tangible
- (not abstract) tangible
- (particular, specific) See also Thesaurus:specific
- (perceivable) intangible
- (not abstract) intangible, abstract
- (particular, specific) See also Thesaurus:generic
- (united) discrete
- French: concret
- German: konkret, bestimmt, genau
- Italian: concreto, reale
- Portuguese: concreto
- Russian: конкре́тный
- Spanish: concreto, específico
- French: concret
- German: konkret
- Italian: concreto, reale
- Portuguese: concreto
- Russian: реа́льный
- Spanish: concreto
- French: de béton
- German: aus Beton, Beton
- Italian: in / di calcestruzzo, in / di cemento
- Portuguese: concreto
- Russian: бето́нный
- Spanish: de concreto, de hormigón
concrete
- (obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 26:
- "...upon the suppos’d Analysis made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes, there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:
- [T]he tincture of Cocheneel is nothing but some finer dissoluble parts of that Concrete lick'd up or dissolv'd by the fluid water.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 26:
- Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
- (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
, John Stuart Mill: - The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
- Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
- (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
- 2010, June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth, page 54:
- Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes—custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds, […]
, John Lutz, Diamond Eyes, page 170: - When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes.
- 2010, June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth, page 54:
- French: béton
- German: Beton
- Italian: calcestruzzo, (colloquial) cemento
- Portuguese: betão, concreto
- Russian: бето́н
- Spanish: hormigón, concreto
concrete (concretes, present participle concreting; past and past participle concreted)
- (usually, transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
- I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
- 2005, The Contractor's Guide to Quality Concrete Construction (ISBN 0870311670), page 95:
- CHAPTER 9: PREPARING FOR CONCRETING
- 2008, David Squire et al, The First-Time Garden Specialist (ISBN 1845379268), page 12:
- Harmonizing the garden's style with the house is important, especially when considering the front garden. Too often, when moving into a new property, the car takes priority and concreting the area appears to be an imperative[.]
- 2012, Formwork for Concrete Structures (ISBN 1259007332), page 417:
- The materials used for concreting should be stored properly[.]
- (usually, transitive) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
- (intransitive, obsolete) To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body.
- The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete.
- 1845, The London Lancet:
- At three years her mother observed something come from her as she walked across the room, which, when examined, was found to be fat in a liquid state, which concreted when cold.
- French: bétonner
- German: betonieren, einbetonieren
- Italian: coprire (ricoprire) di calcestruzzo (cemento), cementificare
- Portuguese: concretar
- Russian: бетони́ровать
- Spanish: hormigonar
- French: concréter (old), concrétiser
- German: konkretisieren
- Italian: solidificare, solidificarsi, concretizzare, concretizzarsi
- Portuguese: concretizar
- Russian: тверде́ть
- Spanish: concretizar
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