concrete
IPA: kʌnkrˈit
noun
- (countable, uncountable) A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
- (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
- (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
- (perfumery) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
- (possibly obsolete) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
- (obsolete) Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particle; a compound substance, a concretion.
verb
- (usually transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
- (usually transitive) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
- (intransitive, archaic) To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
adjective
- Real, actual, tangible.
- Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
- Particular, specific, rather than general.
- (not comparable) Made of concrete (building material).
- (obsolete) Made up of separate parts; composite.
- (obsolete) Not liquid or fluid; solid.
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