concrete
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concrete
▶adjective /ˈkɒŋkriːt/ existing in a material or physical form.
■ specific; definite.
■ (of a noun) denoting a material object as opposed to an abstract quality, state, or action.
▶noun a building material made from a mixture of gravel, sand, cement, and water, forming a stone-like mass on hardening. ▶verb- 1 /ˈkɒŋkriːt/ cover or fix solidly with concrete.
- 2 /kənˈkriːt/ archaic solidify.
■ make real.
– derivatives
concretely adverb,
concreteness noun.
concretely adverb,
concreteness noun.
– origin ME: from Fr. concret or L. concretus, past part. of concrescere ‘grow together’.
'concrete' also found in these Oxford entries:
abstract
- aggregate
- ballast
- blinding
- blockhouse
- brutalism
- calcrete
- cement
- cement mixer
- concrete jungle
- concrete music
- concrete poetry
- concretize
- cooling tower
- cure
- expanded
- ferroconcrete
- form
- granolithic
- half-pipe
- hypostasize
- imitate
- international style
- joggle
- kerbstone
- lewis
- made road
- mattress
- monolith
- musique concrète
- objectify
- physical
- pillbox
- prestressed
- raft
- RC
- ready-mixed
- rebar
- reify
- reinforced concrete
- rubble
- slab
- sleeper
- slip form
- tabby
- terrazzo
- tile
