concrete

Meanings

Plural: concretes

Noun

• a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
• A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.
• A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
• A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
• An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
• Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
• Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.

Verb

• cover with cement
  • "concrete the walls"
• form into a solid mass; coalesce
• To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
• To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
• To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.

Adjective

• capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary
  • "concrete objects such as trees"

Adjective Satellite

• formed by the coalescence of particles

Adj

• Real, actual, tangible.
• 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.
• Real, actual, tangible.
• Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
• Real, actual, tangible.
• Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.
• Particular, specific, rather than general.
• Made of concrete (building material).
• Made up of separate parts; composite.
• Not liquid or fluid; solid.

Synonyms

concrete, discrete, individual, particular, peculiar, proper, singular, specific

Antonyms

abstract, discrete, intangible, specific

Related Words

cement, mortar, UHPC

Anagrams of concrete