Concrete

English

Etymology

Template:Bor+, past participle of Template:M (to curdle) from Template:M (with, together) + Template:M (to grow, rise).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

1. Real, actual, tangible.

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   1. Template:Lb 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.
   2. Template:Lb Equipped with a faithful functor to $X$ (called a base category), in which case $C$ is called a concrete category over $X$.
2. Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.

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3. Particular, specific, rather than general.

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4. Template:Lb Made of concrete (building material).

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5. Template:Lb Made up of separate parts; composite. Template:Rfv-sense

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6. Template:Lb Not liquid or fluid; solid.
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Translations

• Belarusian: Template:T, Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T, Template:T

• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T, Template:T
• Estonian: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T
• Latvian: Template:T
• Malay: Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T+ Template:Q, Template:T Template:Q
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Mongolian: Template:T+
• Norwegian: Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Slovak: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T, Template:T+
• Yiddish: Template:T

• Belarusian: Template:T+, Template:T
• Bulgarian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T

• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+
• Latin: Template:T, Template:T
• Latvian: Template:T
• Malayalam: Template:T+
• Mongolian: Template:T+
• Norwegian: Template:T+

  Nynorsk: Template:T

• Polish: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Scottish Gaelic: Template:T
• Slovak: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Yiddish: Template:T

• Bulgarian: Template:T
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T

  Mandarin: Template:T

• Crimean Tatar: Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+, Template:T
• French: Template:T
• German: Template:T, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T, Template:T
• Japanese: Template:T
• Lao: Template:T-needed
• Latvian: Template:T
• Norwegian: Template:T
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Romanian: Template:L Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: Template:T

• Slovak: Template:T+, Template:T
• Spanish: Template:T, Template:T
• Swedish: Template:T+
• Thai: Template:T-needed
• Yiddish: Template:T

• Indonesian: Template:T+check, Template:T+check

Noun

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

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2. Template:Lb A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
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3. Template:Lb A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
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4. Template:Senseid Template:Lb An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.
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5. Template:Lb Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
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6. Template:Senseid Template:Lb Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
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Translations

• Afrikaans: Template:T+
• Albanian: Template:T+
• Arabic: Template:T
• Armenian: Template:T+
• Asturian: Template:T+
• Azerbaijani: Template:T+
• Basque: Template:T
• Belarusian: Template:T
• Bengali: Template:T+
• Breton: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Bulgarian: Template:T
• Burmese: Template:T+
• Catalan: Template:T+
• Cherokee: Template:T
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T+, Template:T+

• Crimean Tatar: Template:T
• Czech: Template:T+
• Danish: Template:T+
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Esperanto: Template:T+
• Estonian: Template:T+
• Faroese: Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• Galician: Template:T+
• Georgian: Template:T
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Greenlandic: Template:T
• Hebrew: Template:T+
• Hindi: Template:T
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Hunsrik: Template:T
• Icelandic: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Indonesian: Template:T+, Template:T
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T+, Template:Qualifier Template:T+, Template:T+
• Japanese: Template:T+
• Javanese: Template:T
• Jeju: Template:T
• Kazakh: Template:T
• Khmer: Template:T+
• Korean: Template:T+
• Kyrgyz: Template:T+
• Lao: Template:T
• Latin: Template:T, Template:T
• Latvian: Template:T
• Lithuanian: Template:T+
• Luxembourgish: Template:T
• Macedonian: Template:T
• Malay: Template:T+ Template:Q, Template:T Template:Q, Template:T+ Template:Q
• Malayalam: Template:T
• Maltese: Template:T
• Maori: Template:T
• Minangkabau: Template:T+
• Mongolian: Template:T+
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Template:T+

  Nynorsk: Template:T

• Persian: Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+ Template:Q, Template:T+ Template:Q
• Romanian: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Samogitian: Template:T
• Scottish Gaelic: Template:T
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Template:T

  Roman: Template:T+

• Slovak: Template:T+
• Slovene: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T
• Swahili: Template:T
• Swedish: Template:T+
• Tajik: Template:T
• Thai: Template:T+
• Tibetan: Template:T-needed
• Turkish: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Turkmen: Template:T+
• Ukrainian: Template:T+
• Urdu: Template:T
• Uzbek: Template:T+
• Vietnamese: Template:T+
• Yiddish: Template:T
• Yoruba: Template:T

Verb

1. Template:Lb To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

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2. Template:Lb To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
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3. Template:Lb To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.
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Usage notes

• Etymologically, the antonym of concrete is Template:M, but the meanings of the two verbs have diverged so widely that this is scarcely noticed today.

Translations

• Bulgarian: Template:T
• Czech: Template:T, Template:T
• Danish: Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+
• German: Template:T+, Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Irish: Template:T
• Italian: Template:T, Template:T+
• Polish: Template:T+
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+

• Bulgarian: Template:T
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: Template:T+

• Danish: Template:T, Template:T, Template:T, Template:T
• Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T, Template:T
• Finnish: Template:T+
• French: Template:T+ Template:Qualifier, Template:T+
• German: Template:T+
• Greek: Template:T+
• Hungarian: Template:T+
• Italian: Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T+, Template:T
• Portuguese: Template:T+
• Russian: Template:T+
• Spanish: Template:T+
• Swedish: Template:T, Template:T

References

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Anagrams

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Adjective

1. Template:Infl of

Anagrams

• Template:L

Italian

Adjective

1. Template:Feminine plural of

Anagrams

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Latin

Participle

1. Template:Inflection of

Portuguese

Verb

1. Template:Pt-verb form of

Spanish

Verb

1. Template:Es-verb form of