concrete

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   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.
   • l am perplexed by the superior importance which Dr, Pratt attributes to abstract trueness over concrete verifiability in an idea, and I wish that he might be moved to explain.
2. 2

   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.
   • As expressed in the premiss, the proposition appeals directly and in concrete language to the incapacity of the human imagination for conceiving a minimum.
3. 3

   Particular, specific, rather than general.

   • While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.
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   1. 4

      Made of concrete (building material).

      • The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
      • Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
      • I took the stairs down to the communal area and stood resting against a concrete pillar, watching my "brother" kick up little scraps of half-frozen turf.
   2. 5

      Made up of separate parts

      Made up of separate parts; composite.

      • In this sketch Goldsmith undoubtedly shadows forth his an noyances as travelling tutor to this concrete young gentleman, compounded of the pawnbroker, the pettifogger, and the West Indian heir, with an overlaying of the city miser.
   3. 6

      Not liquid or fluid

      Not liquid or fluid; solid.

   4. 7

      A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and…

      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.
      • Smooth facets of buildings have given way to cobbly insides of concrete blasted apart, all the endless-pebbled rococo just behind the shuttering.
   5. 8

      A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists

      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.
      • Conceptualization is man's method of organizing sensory material. To form a concept, one isolates two or more similar concretes from the rest of one's perceptual field, and integrates them into a single mental unit, symbolized by a word.
      • With regard to the physical domain, concretes are as a rule perceived through the senses.
   6. 9

      A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.

   7. 10

      An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such…

      An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.

   8. 11

      Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

   9. 12

      Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles

      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.
   10. 13

       To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

       • I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
       • In odd moments David had made an estimate on the cost of shooting down the menace in the eastern tunnel drifting and concreting the gash which would be left by the blasting out of the fissure material.
       • At first they could not remember anything out of the ordinary, and then the farmer's wife remarked that they had changed the pattern of the milking parlour by concreting the area where the cows were waiting.
   11. 14

       To solidify

       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.
       • It is only such a logos that can concrete the concrete and make reality real.
   12. 15

       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.
       • At three years old, 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.

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