concrete

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to cover with cement

   concrete the walls

2. 2
   adj

   Real, actual, tangible.

   Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.

3. 3
   adj

   Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.

   Concrete Terms, while they expreſs the Quality, do alſo either expreſs, or imply, or refer to ſome Subject to which it belongs; as white, round, long, broad, wiſe, mortal, living, dead.

4. 4
   adj

   Particular, specific, rather than general.

   While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.

5. 5
   adj

   Made of concrete (building material).

   The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.

6. 6
   adj

   Made up of separate parts; composite.

   I cannot wholly expreſs him, I wot not what to call him, but a certain thing altogether made of the hatred of God, of miſtruſt in God, of wings, deceits, diſcord, manſlaughters, and in a word, a thing concrete and heaped up of perjuries, and made of all kind of miſchief.

7. 7
   adj

   Not liquid or fluid; solid.

   Ere the white body they could reach; and stuck, as telling how / They purpos'd to have pierc'd his flesh: his peril pierced now / The eyes of prince Eurypilus, Evemon's famous son; Who came close on, and with his dart struck duke Apisaon, / Whose surname was Phausiades, even to the concrete blood / That makes the liver: on the earth out gush'd his vital flood.

8. 8
   noun

   A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

   Various types of concrete have been used in the construction of this highway.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).