concrete
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin concretus, past participle of concrescere (com- + crescere).
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concrete (comparative more concrete, superlative most concrete)
- Particular, perceivable, real.
- Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
- 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, Guardian:
- Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides further concrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
- Not abstract.
- Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
- Made of concrete building material.
- The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
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- (perceivable): intangible
- (not abstract): intangible, abstract
[edit] Translations
particular, perceivable, real
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not abstract
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made of concrete
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[edit] Noun
Wikipedia concrete (uncountable)
- A building material created by mixing Portland cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.
- The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
- A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles.
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 26:
- "...upon the suppos’d Analysis made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes, there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...
- 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, p. 26:
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building material
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[edit] Verb
concrete (third-person singular simple present concretes, present participle concreting, simple past and past participle concreted)
- To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over.
- I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
- To solidify.
- Josie’s plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.
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cover with concrete
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solidify
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[edit] Derived terms
Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb "concrete"
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concrete
- The inflected formFAQ of concreet.
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concrete pl.
- feminine form of concreto
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concrēte
- vocative masculine singular of concrētus
[edit] Spanish
[edit] Verb
concrete (infinitive concretar)
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