| concrete | |
| 1. adj. Real, actual, tangible. | |
| Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists. | |
| Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t. | |
| 2. adj. Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories. | |
| 3. adj. Particular, specific, rather than general. | |
| While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help. concrete ideas | |
| 4. adj. United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid. | |
| 5. adj. (modifying a noun, not comparable) Made of concrete, a building material. | |
| The office building had concrete flower boxes out front. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion. | |
| 7. n. Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand. | |
| The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs. | |
| 8. n. (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. | |
| 9. n. Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. | |
| 10. n. (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings. | |
| 11. v. (usually transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material). | |
| I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn. | |
| 12. v. (usually transitive) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real). | |
| 13. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body. | |
