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concrete
- /ˈkɒnkɹiːt/ UK
- [ˈkɒŋkɹiːt] UK
- [kəŋˈkɹiːt] UK
- /ˌkɑnˈkɹit/ US, dialectal
- [ˌkɑŋˈkɹiːt] US, dialectal
- /ˈkɑnkɹit/ US, dialectal
- [ˈkɑŋkɹiːt] US, dialectal
- /kənˈkɹiːt/ UK
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).
adjective concreter · concretest
- Real, actual, tangible. Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.
- 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.
- 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.
- Particular, specific, rather than general. While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.
- Made of concrete (building material). The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
- Made up of separate parts; composite. I cannot wholly expreſs him, I wot not what to call him, but a certain thing altogether made of the hatred of God, of miſtruſt in God, of wings, deceits, diſcord, manſlaughters, and in a word, a thing concrete and heaped up of perjuries, and made of all kind of miſchief.
- Not liquid or fluid; solid. Ere the white body they could reach; and stuck, as telling how / They purpos'd to have pierc'd his flesh: his peril pierced now / The eyes of prince Eurypilus, Evemon's famous son; Who came close on, and with his dart struck duke Apisaon, / Whose surname was Phausiades, even to the concrete blood /
noun concretes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings. 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. Drewes's concretes were delicious custard concoctions so thick that before the kids working behind the counter handed them to custome
- An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic. Most concretes contain about 50 per cent wax, 50 per cent volatile oil, such as jasmine; in rare cases, as with ylang ylang, the concrete is liquid and contains about 80 per cent essential oil, 20 per cent wax. The advantage of concretes is that they are more stable and concentrated than pure essent
- Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. The concrete is made by ingredients which are to remove the feculencies from the cane-juice as soon as expressed from the mill and which check fermentation; indeed juice may be kept for a week after the canes have been gruond, without turning acid, when these ingredients have been used.
- Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion. And firſt, if I would now deal rigidly with my Adverſary, I might here make a great Queſtion of the very way of Probation which he and others employ, without the leaſt ſcruple, to evince, that the Bodies commonly cali'd mixt, are made up of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire, which they are pleas'd alſo to
verb concretes · concreting · concreted
- To cover with or encase in concrete (building material). I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
- To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real). […] the necessity of recognizing this relation outwardly and of perfecting herself in the forms required to express the recognition, had moved her to such diligence and faithfulness in practicing these forms that this exercise soon concreted itself into habit; it became automatic and unconscious; th
- To unite or coalesce into a solid mass. When any ſaline Liquor is evaporated to a Cuticle and let cool, the Salt concretes in regular Figures; which argues, that the Particles of the Salt before they concreted, floated in the Liquor at equal diſtances in rank and file, and by conſequence that they acted upon one another by ſome Power whic
