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concrete

UK /ˈkɒnkɹiːt/US /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/

adjective 8
noun 7
verb 3
forms 6
phrases 2

adjective8

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belonging to the world of things that can be touched or seen, and not to thought alone
- 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.
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Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
- Concrete Terms, while they express the Quality, do also either express, or imply, or refer to some Subject to which it belongs; as white, round, long, broad, wise, mortal, living, dead. — 1725
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Particular, specific, rather than general.
- While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.
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Made of concrete (building material).
- The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
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(no longer used) Not liquid or fluid; solid.
- The natives distil a kind of arrack from the flowers, which are also eaten raw. The seeds, too, yield a concrete oil, by expression, used for lamps, and occasionally to fry withal. — 1848
(no longer used) Made up of separate parts; composite.

noun7

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A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- Various types of concrete have been used in the construction of this highway.
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Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
- The sidewalk was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
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A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
- Whence follows, that the Abstract Terms, [Entity] or [Essence] do properly signify [A Capacity of Being.] Tho' Entity is often us'd as a Concrete for the Thing it self. — 1697
(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
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(no longer used) Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
- But if Gold it self be admitted, as it must be, for a porous Concrete, the proportion of Void to Body in the texture of common Air will be so much the greater. — 1692
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(no longer used) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
- Maple sugar is crystallized from the concentrated sap of maple. Maple concrete can be purchased and water added to make maple syrup. — 1975

verb3

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To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
- I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
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To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
- Just so economics has concreted the concept of capital. The law needs a term for the material and quasi-material objects of property. — 1936
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(no longer used) To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
- The Blood of some Persons who have dy'd of the Plague could not be made to concrete, by reason of the Putrefaction already begun. — 1731

forms

concreted · concreting · concretes · concreteth · concreter · concretest

Phrases with concrete

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