Meaning of concrete | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Real, actual, tangible
2. Concretise.
3. A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
   countable, uncountable
4. Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets
5. Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
   countable, especially, uncountable
6. To harden; solidify.
7. Equipped with a faithful functor to X {\displaystyle X} (called a base category), in which case C {\displaystyle C} is called a concrete category over X {\displaystyle X}
8. A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
   countable, uncountable
9. a mixture of cement with sand etc used in building. beton إسْمِنْت бетон concreto armado beton der Beton beton μπετόνhormigón betoon بتون betoni bétonבטון कंकरीट-मिश्रक, ठोस beton beton beton steinsteypa cemento コンクリート 콘크리트 betonas betons adunan konkrit betonbetongbeton ګډوله، مخلوط، ګډ كالي، ګډټوكر ( لكه دوړيو او وريښمو cimento armado beton бетон betón beton beton betong คอนกรีต beton 混凝土 бетон ریت سیمنٹ کا آمیزہ bê tông 混凝土
   etc
10. Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories
11. A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
    US, countable, uncountable
12. to spread with concrete. We'll have to concrete the garden path. beton gooi, betonneer يُغَطّي بالأسْمِنْت бетонирам concretar vybetonovat betonieren støbe i beton; belægge med beton; cementere τσιμεντώνω revestir de hormigón betoneerima بتون ریزی کردن valaa betonista bétonner לְכָסוֹת בְּבֶּטוֹן कंकरीट करवाना betonirati betonoz menyemen steypa (í) cementare コンクリートで固める 콘크리트를 치다 (iš)betonuoti betonēt menyimen cementerenlegge betong, støpe betonować ګډوله، مخلوط، ګډ كالي، ګډټوكر ( لكه دوړيو او ...
13. Particular, specific, rather than general
14. An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
    countable, uncountable
15. werklikheid; vastigheid مَحْسوسِيَّه определеност ser concreto konkrétnost die Betoniertheit konkrethed υλική υπόσταση calidad de concreto konkreetsus عینیت konkreettisuus caractère concret מוּחָשִׁיוּת मूर्तता konkretnost konkrétság konkret áþreifanleiki concretezza 具体性 구체적임 konkretumas konkrētums kekukuhan concreetheid det å være konkret; anskuelighet konkret concreteţe конкретность konkrétnosť stvarnost konkretnost konkretion ความเป็นรูปธรรม somutluk 具體性 конкретність سختی ، کنکریٹ کی طرح ک...
16. Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
    countable, obsolete, possibly, uncountable
17. concreto-a; definido-a.
18. Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
19. Of or relating to an actual, specific thing or instance; particular: had the concrete evidence needed to convict.
20. Existing in reality or in real experience; perceptible by the senses; real: concrete objects such as trees.
21. Formed by the coalescence of separate particles or parts into one mass; solid.
22. Made of hard, strong, conglomerate construction material.
23. A hard, strong construction material consisting of sand, conglomerate gravel, pebbles, broken stone, or slag in a mortar or cement matrix.

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Examples

“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.”

“In the next few decades, says Van Oss, building codes will change, opening the way for innovative materials. But while new concretes may be stronger and more durable, they are also more expensive - and whether the tendency of developers and the public to focus on short-term rather than long-term costs will also change is another matter.”

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

“Within hours of the deadly van attack on April 23, 2018, the city installed a series of thigh-high concrete barriers around Union Station and other bustling spots in downtown Toronto.”

“Whence follows, that the Abſtract Terms, [Entity] or [Eſſence] do properly ſignify [A Capacity of Being.] Tho' Entity is often us'd as a Concrete for the Thing it ſelf.”

“Conceptualization is man's method of organizing sensory material. To form a concept, one isolates two or more similar concretes from the rest of one's perceptual field, and integrates them into a single mental unit, symbolized by a word.”

“With regard to the physical domain, concretes are as a rule perceived through the senses.”

“However, how can such a structure of concretes and abstracts be made evident, which after all means that knowledge always aims at the concrete, the unprecedented, the irreducibly dissimilar, although cognition always happens in developing similarity through abstraction?”

“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.”

“When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes. Drewes's concretes were delicious custard concoctions so thick that before the kids working behind the counter handed them to customers, they turned the cups upside down to demonstrate that the contents wouldn't pour out.”

“Paradoxically richer and yet lighter than ice cream, frozen custard is softly served, and at Curly's you can have your I vanilla or chocolate flavor custard "concrete" style, with your choice of a rainbow of candy and fruit toppings whipped in.”

“Once there, she opts for a concrete -- Nielsen's thick, spoonable, frozen vanilla custard mixed with add-ins like Oreos or strawberries or chocolate chips and piled into a 16-ounce cup for $4.35. She can't eat it all, of course, which is why a couple of friends need to come along as well.”

“A concrete has some distinct differences from a milkshake, specifically, the custard base mixture, the final texture, and the mix-ins. Technically, the common ice cream you buy at the store and use in a regular milkshake is made from a custard base. A custard is dairy thickened with the help of heated whole eggs or egg yolks, and a concrete uses a custard base that has a higher ratio of egg yolks in the recipe than the average ice cream.”

“Most concretes contain about 50 per cent wax, 50 per cent volatile oil, such as jasmine; in rare cases, as with ylang ylang, the concrete is liquid and contains about 80 per cent essential oil, 20 per cent wax. The advantage of concretes is that they are more stable and concentrated than pure essential oils.”

“Monsieur Roca held another concrete under my nose and asked if it reminded me of tea. I breathed in a refreshing green note of verbena, a smell that was so quintessentially English that I felt suddenly nostalgic. It was a daffodil scent; it symbolized spring and the hope that spring always brings. And finally he held out the mimosa concrete for me. As I breathed in its heady aroma I forgot all about the noxious fumes I'd inhaled as I'd walked towards the Robertet factory.”

“Concretes, the waxy extracts produced by solvent extraction, were first introduced by the house of Roure, Bertrand Fils in Grasse, in 1873, and in 1888 Joseph Robert succeeded in developing a large-scale process for the solvent extraction of fragrant plants. This process was brought into commercial production two years later.”

“Once the material is exhausted, the solvent containing the dissolved essential oil is distilled. This process removes the solvent, leaving behind the extracted matter, which is known as a concrete. The concrete is processed further to produce an absolute for use in perfumery.”

“The concrete is made by ingredients which are to remove the feculencies from the cane-juice as soon as expressed from the mill and which check fermentation; indeed juice may be kept for a week after the canes have been gruond, without turning acid, when these ingredients have been used.”

“Also molasses in the definition refers only to the product separated from the various sugar concretes specified in the purification of these raw sugars, while in trade terms what is defined under sugar cane syrup in the standards is often called molasses, the term "open kettle molasses" being used in this connection to indicate that the cane juice has been simply boiled down in open kettles.”

“In some areas of the Far East, for example, factories producing sugar concrete may process as little as one ton of sugar cane per day and a total of not over 100 tons of sugar cane per year. From this we go to the other extreme where factories in the West Indies and Mexico process as much as 20,000 tons of sugar cane per day and 2 to 3 million tons of sugar cane per year.”

“Maple sugar is crystallized from the concentrated sap of maple. Maple concrete can be purchased and water added to make maple syrup.”

“And firſt, if I would now deal rigidly with my Adverſary, I might here make a great Queſtion of the very way of Probation which he and others employ, without the leaſt ſcruple, to evince, that the Bodies commonly cali'd mixt, are made up of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire, which they are pleas'd alſo to call Elements; namely that 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.”

“Of this kind, I ſuppoſe, the Æther, that is the medium or fluid body, in which all other bodies do as it were ſwim and move; and particularly, the Air, which ſeems nothing elſe but a kind of tincture or ſolution of terreſtrial and aqueous particles diſſolv'd into it, and agitated by it, juſt as the tincture of Cocheneel is nothing but ſome finer diſſoluble parts of that Concrete lick'd up or diſſolv'd by the fluid water.”

“But if Gold it ſelf be admitted, as it muſt be, for a porous Concrete, the proportion of Void to Body in the texture of common Air will be ſo much the greater.”

“Some affirm it [ambergris] to be a true animal concrete, formed in balls in the body of the male ſpermaceti whale, and lodged in a large oval bag over the testicles.”

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