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Concrete   /kənkrˈit/  /kˈɑnkrit/   Listen
adjective
Concrete  adj.  
1.
United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. "The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state."
2.
(Logic)
(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. Hence:
(b)
Applied to a specific object; special; particular; opposed to general. See Abstract, 3. "Concrete is opposed to abstract. 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."
Concrete number, a number associated with, or applied to, a particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without reference to a particular object.
Concrete quantity, a physical object or a collection of such objects.
Concrete science, a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws.
Concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides continuously up or down, as distinguished from a discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from one line of pitch to another.


noun
Concrete  n.  
1.
A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body. "To divide all concretes, minerals and others, into the same number of distinct substances."
2.
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.
3.
(Logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. "The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety"."
4.
(Sugar Making) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.


verb
Concrete  v. t.  
1.
To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles. "There are in our inferior world divers bodies that are concreted out of others."
2.
To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.


Concrete  v. i.  (past & past part. concreted; pres. part. concreting)  To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body. Note: Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of blood. "The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete."





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"Concrete" Quotes from Famous Books



... can a writer, least of all if he be a poet, forego that part of his equipment. In dealing with the impalpable, dim subjects that lie beyond the border-land of exact knowledge, the poetic instinct seeks always to bring them into clear definition and bright concrete imagery, so that it might seem for the moment as if painting also could deal with them. Every abstract conception, as it passes into the light of the creative imagination, acquires structure and firmness and colour, as flowers do in the light of the sun. Life and Death, ...
— Style • Walter Raleigh
... heart jumped sideways and upwards with a wiggling movement, turning two somersaults, and stopped beating. The hideous truth, working its way slowly through the concrete, had at last penetrated to his brain. He was not only in somebody else's room, and a woman's at that. He was in the room belonging to Miss ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... impulses toward virtue, honour and courtesy. It is rather from such appeal to the emotions as can be made most effectually through the telling of a story. The inculcation of a duty leaves him passionless and unmoved. The narrative of an experience in which that same virtue finds concrete embodiment fires him with the desire to try the same conduct for himself. Few children fail to make the immediate connection between the hero or heroine ...
— The Book of Stories for the Storyteller • Fanny E. Coe
... once as drinking fountain and bath to our not over-squeamish feathered neighbors. The number of insects these destroy, not to mention the joy of their presence, would alone compensate the householder of economic bent for the cost of a shallow concrete tank. ...
— Wild Flowers, An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and - Their Insect Visitors - - Title: Nature's Garden • Neltje Blanchan
... menacing roar of machine guns, sheltered here and there over the scraggy plain within the pill-boxes that have of late been substituted for the vanishing trench lines. Artillery bombardments by the Allies have so devastated certain regions that trenches have become impossible; hence the concrete pillboxes. ...
— Our Pilots in the Air • Captain William B. Perry


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