Concrete
['kɒŋkriːt] or ['kɑŋkrit]
Definition
(noun.) a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water.
(verb.) form into a solid mass; coalesce.
(verb.) cover with cement; 'concrete the walls'.
(adj.) capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary; 'concrete objects such as trees' .
(adj.) formed by the coalescence of particles .
Typist: Margery--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
(a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
(a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
(n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
(n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
(n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
(n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
(v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
(v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
(v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
Edited by Ben
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Solidify, harden, cake, become firm or solid, be consolidated.
a. [1]. Firm, solid, solidified, consolidated, compact.[2]. Not abstract, not general, restricted to a particular subject (as a qualifying term to its noun).
Editor: Lyle
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Firm, compact, consolidated, indurated, embodied, particularized
ANT:Loose, sloppy, luteous, shifting, boggy, swampy, yielding, unresisting, abstract,generalize
Editor: Nell
Definition
adj. formed into one mass: the opposite of abstract and denoting a particular thing: made of concrete.—n. a mass formed by parts growing or sticking together: a mixture of lime sand pebbles &c. used in building.—v.t. Concrēte′ to form into a solid mass.—v.i. to harden.—adv. Concrēte′ly.—ns. Concrēte′ness; Concrē′tion a mass concreted: a growth forming in certain parts of the body as calculi &c.—adjs. Concrē′tionary; Concrēt′ive having power to concrete.
Checker: Willa
Examples
- The pouring of the entire house is accomplished in about six hours, and then the molds are left undisturbed for six days, in order that the concrete may set and harden. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With this idea suggested, one might suppose that it would be a simple matter to make molds and pour in a concrete mixture. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was at this point that invention commenced, in order to produce a concrete mixture which would overcome this crucial difficulty. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- There are over 50,000 tons of steel in the superstructure, and about 140,000 cubic yards of masonry and concrete in the foundation piers. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Education is the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Occupation is a concrete term for continuity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- With Hegel the necessity of finding some working concrete counterpart of the inaccessible Absolute took an institutional, rather than symbolic, form. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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