From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concrete \Con*crete"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Concreted}; p. pr & vb. n. {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.'' --Arbuthnot.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concrete \Con"crete\ (? or ?), adjective [L. concretus, p. p. of concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See {Crescent}.]
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. --Bp. Burnet.
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. --J. S. Mill.
Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs. --I. Watts.
{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. --Davies & Peck.
{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. --Rush.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
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. --Boyle.
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''. --J. S. Mill.
4. (Sugar Making) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Concrete \Con*crete"\, verb (used with an object)
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. --Sir M. Hale.
2. To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary; "concrete objects such as trees" [ant: {abstract}]
2: formed by the coalescence of particles
noun
1: a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
verb
1: cover with cement; "concrete the walls"
2: form into a solid mass; coalesce
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
267 Moby Thesaurus words for "concrete": Formica, Masonite, Tarmac, Tarvia, absolute, actual, adamant, adobe, agglomerate, agglomeration, appreciable, ashlar, asphalt, associate, authentic, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, block, body, bona fide, bone, bony, bracket, breccia, brick, bricks and mortar, bunch, cake, candy, canvas, carpet, carpeting, causeway, cement, cemental, certain, clabber, clapboard, clear-cut, clinker, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clot, clump, cluster, coagulate, coalesce, cobble, cobblestone, combine, compact, compacted, compound, compressed, concentrated, concretion, condense, condensed, congeal, congested, conglomerate, conglomeration, connect, consolidated, cork tile, corneous, couple, covering materials, crammed, crammed full, crowded, crystallize, curb, curbing, curbstone, curd, curdle, defined, definite, definitive, dense, detailed, determinate, diamond, diamondlike, different, distinct, distinguished, dry, dure, edgestone, esoteric, especial, exceptional, express, extraordinary, ferroconcrete, fiber glass, firebrick, firm, fixed, flag, flagging, flagstone, flint, flintlike, flinty, floor, flooring, gel, gelatinate, gelatinize, genuine, gluey, granite, granitelike, granitic, granulate, gravel, grout, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, heart of oak, heavy, horny, impenetrable, impermeable, incrassate, individual, indurate, inner, inspissate, intimate, iron, iron-hard, ironlike, jam-packed, jammed, jell, jellify, jelly, kerb, kerbstone, knot, lapideous, lath and plaster, link, linoleum, literal, lithoid, lithoidal, lopper, lump, macadam, marble, marblelike, masonry, mass, massive, mastic, material, metal, minute, mortar, nails, node, nonporous, noteworthy, oak, obdurate, osseous, packed, palpable, pantile, paper, parget, parquet, particular, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone, pebble, personal, physical, plaster, plasterboard, plasters, plywood, ponderable, precise, prestressed concrete, private, real, realistic, reliable, resistant, resistive, respective, road metal, rock, rocklike, rocky, roofage, roofing, roofing paper, roughcast, sensible, serried, set, several, shake, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, siding, singular, slate, solid, solid body, solidify, solipsistic, special, specific, spun glass, steel, steellike, steely, stone, stonelike, stony, stucco, substantial, substantive, take a set, tangible, tar, tar paper, tarmacadam, thatch, thick, thick-growing, thicken, thickset, tile, tilestone, tiling, tough, unite, valid, veneer, viscid, viscose, viscous, wainscoting, wallboard, walling, wallpaper, washboard, weatherboard, wood
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Concrete, ND Zip code(s): 58220 Concrete, WA (town, FIPS 14380) Location: 48.53713 N, 121.74888 W Population (1990): 735 (313 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98237
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Concrete, WA -- U.S. town in Washington Population (2000): 790 Housing Units (2000): 335 Land area (2000): 1.214845 sq. miles (3.146435 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.020393 sq. miles (0.052818 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.235238 sq. miles (3.199253 sq. km) FIPS code: 14380 Located within: Washington (WA), FIPS 53 Location: 48.539084 N, 121.747188 W ZIP Codes (1990): 98237 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Concrete, WA Concrete
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