Concrete

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

II. Concrete ·vt To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

III. Concrete ·vi To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

IV. Concrete ·vt To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

V. Concrete ·noun A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

VI. Concrete ·adj Applied to a specific object; special; particular;

— opposed to general. ·see Abstract, 3.

VII. Concrete ·adj United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

VIII. Concrete ·noun A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

IX. Concrete ·noun 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.

X. Concrete ·adj 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.

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