concrete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnkɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈkɒŋkɹiːt/
ipa: /kɵnˈkɹiːt/
ipa: /kɵŋˈkɹiːt/
ipa: /ˌkɑnˈkɹiːt/
ipa: /kɑŋˈkɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈkɑnkɹiːt/
ipa: /ˈkɑŋkɹiːt/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔn.kriʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /kɔŋk.riʈ/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: concretes
form: concreting
form: concreted
form: concreted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).
Senses: examples: text: I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
text: In odd moments David had made an estimate on the cost of shooting down the menace in the eastern tunnel drifting and concreting the gash which would be left by the blasting out of the fissure material.
ref: 1919, Francis Lynde, David Vallory, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 322:
text: At first they could not remember anything out of the ordinary, and then the farmer's wife remarked that they had changed the pattern of the milking parlour by concreting the area where the cows were waiting.
ref: 1985, Reshad Feild, Here to Heal, Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books, →ISBN, page 84:
text: Frequent catastrophic floods prompted civic leaders in the 1930s to transform the river into a flood-control channel to protect the burgeoning flatlands. Nearly the entire 51-mile river bottom was concreted over, except a few spots where the water table was too high.
ref: 2010 August 1, Louis Sahagun, “A journey of discovery on the L.A. River”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul 2023:
glosses: To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
examples: text: […] the necessity of recognizing this relation outwardly and of perfecting herself in the forms required to express the recognition, had moved her to such diligence and faithfulness in practicing these forms that this exercise soon concreted itself into habit; it became automatic and unconscious; then a natural result followed: […]
ref: 1897, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “[Pudd’nhead Wilson] Chapter”, in The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson: And the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, →OCLC, pages 55–56:
text: Just so economics has concreted the concept of capital. The law needs a term for the material and quasi-material objects of property.
ref: 1936, C. Reinold Noyes, The Institution of Property, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.; London: Longmans, Green and Co.; Humphrey Milford, page 536:
text: It is only such a logos that can concrete the concrete and make reality real.
ref: 1940, Kurt Riezler, Physics and Reality: […], New Haven, C.T.: Yale University Press, page 104:
glosses: To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
examples: text: When any ſaline Liquor is evaporated to a Cuticle and let cool, the Salt concretes in regular Figures; which argues, that the Particles of the Salt before they concreted, floated in the Liquor at equal diſtances in rank and file, and by conſequence that they acted upon one another by ſome Power which at equal diſtances is equal, at unequal diſtances unequal.
ref: a. 1728 (date written), Isaac Newton, “[The Third Book of Opticks.] ”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. […], 4th edition, London: […] William Innys […], published 1730, →OCLC, page 363:
text: The Blood of ſome Perſons who have dy'd of the Plague could not be made to concrete, by reaſon of the Putrefaction already begun.
ref: 1731, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson […], →OCLC, page 46:
text: At three years old, her mother observed something come from her, as she walked across the room, which, when examined, was found to be fat in a liquid state, which concreted when cold.
ref: 1813, Everard Home, “On the Formation of Fat in the Intestines of living Animals”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, London: […] W[illiam] Bulmer and Co. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 152:
text: The mastic which concretes on the stem is called mastic in the tear, while that which falls to the earth constitutes common mastic.
ref: 1840, Jonathan Pereira, “Pista'cia Lentis'cus, Linn. L. E. D.—The Mastic or Lentisk Tree.”, in The Elements of Materia Medica; […], Part II, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans, page 1183:
glosses: To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: architectural concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: asphalt concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: bioconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: calcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: Cascade concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: cast in concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: chocolate concrete
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word: concolic
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete art
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete cancer
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word: concrete canyon
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word: concrete class
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word: concrete cutter
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word: concrete desert
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word: concrete-head
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word: concrete interface
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete jungle
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretely
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete masonry unit
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete method
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word: concrete mixer
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word: concrete music
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concreteness
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete noun
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete number
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete oil of wine
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete overcoat
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete poem
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete poet
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete poetry
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete saw
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: consaw
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete shoes
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete term
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concrete verb
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretion
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretism
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretist
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretive
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretization
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretize
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretise
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: concretum
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: -crete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: dolocrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: ferroconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: gypcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: hempcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: limecrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: lunarcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: mooncrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: musique concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: neoconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: neoconcretism
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: nonconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: popcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: prestressed concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: pykrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: reconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: reinforced concrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: semiconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: shotcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: silcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: unconcrete
sense: Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb concrete
word: woodcrete