Definition of Concrete

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Concrete

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

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.

Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.

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

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.

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

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

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

To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

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Concrete Quotations

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Tadao Ando

Concrete Translations

concrete in Danish is beton
concrete in Dutch is beton
concrete in German is Beton
concrete in Hungarian is beton, beton-
concrete in Italian is calcestruzzo
concrete in Norwegian is betong, konkret
concrete in Swedish is betong, konkret

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