concrete

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

concreter

Superlative

concretest

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

concretes

Adjective

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

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.

2. 2.Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.

   • 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.
   • "Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

4. 4.Made of concrete (building material).

   • The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
   • 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.
   • 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.

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

   • The sidewalk was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
   • 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.

2. 2.A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.

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

4. 4.A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

   • With regard to the physical domain, concretes are as a rule perceived through the senses.
   • On the right-hand sides we have sentences asserting that an equivalence relation holds between concretes, that is, that they are identical in some respect.

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