[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

concrete \con"crete\ ? or ?, a. l. concretus, p. p. of
   concrescere to grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. f.
   concret. see crescent.
   1. united in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate
      particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
      1913 webster

            the first concrete state, or consistent surface, of
            the chaos must be of the same figure as the last
            liquid state.                         --bp. burnet.
      1913 webster

   2. logic
      a 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. hence:
      b applied to a specific object; special; particular; --
          opposed to general. see abstract, 3.
          1913 webster

                concrete is opposed to abstract. the names of
                individuals are concrete, those of classes
                abstract.                         --j. s. mill.
          1913 webster

                concrete terms, while they express the quality,
                do also express, or imply, or refer to, some
                subject to which it belongs.      --i. watts.
          1913 webster

   concrete number, a number associated with, or applied to, a
      particular object, as three men, five days, etc., as
      distinguished from an abstract number, or one used without
      reference to a particular object.

   concrete quantity, a physical object or a collection of
      such objects. --davies  peck.

   concrete science, a physical science, one having as its
      subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract
      laws.

   concrete sound or movement of the voice, one which slides
      continuously up or down, as distinguished from a
      discrete movement, in which the voice leaps at once from
      one line of pitch to another. --rush.
      1913 webster
see also:
crescent abstract general abstract concrete number concrete quantity 
concrete science concrete sound or movement of the voice discrete 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

concrete \con"crete\, n.
   1. a compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous
      union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in
      one body.
      1913 webster

            to divide all concretes, minerals and others, into
            the same number of distinct substances. --boyle.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

   3. logic a term designating both a quality and the subject
      in which it exists; a concrete term.
      1913 webster

            the concretes "father" and "son" have, or might
            have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety". --j.
                                                  s. mill.
      1913 webster

   4. sugar making sugar boiled down from cane juice to a
      solid mass.
      1913 webster

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

concrete \concrete"\, v. i. imp.  p. p. concreted; p. pr 
   vb. n. concreting.
   to unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or
   solid body.
   1913 webster

   note: applied to some substances, it is equivalent to
         indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard
         body; applied to others, it is equivalent to congeal,
         thicken, inspissate, coagulate, as in the concretion of
         blood. "the blood of some who died of the plague could
         not be made to concrete." --arbuthnot.
         1913 webster
see also:
concreted concreting 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

concrete \concrete"\, v. t.
   1. to form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of
      separate particles.
      1913 webster

            there are in our inferior world divers bodies that
            are concreted out of others.          --sir m. hale.
      1913 webster

   2. to cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
      1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

concrete
     adj 1: capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or
            imaginary; "concrete objects such as trees" ant: abstract
     2: formed by the coalescence of particles
     n : a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel
         and cement and water
     v 1: cover with cement; "concrete the walls"
     2: form into a solid mass; coalesce
see also:
abstract 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

267 moby thesaurus words for "concrete":
   formica, masonite, tarmac, tarvia, absolute, actual, adamant,
   adobe, agglomerate, agglomeration, appreciable, ashlar, asphalt,
   associate, authentic, bitumen, bituminous macadam, blacktop, block,
   body, bona fide, bone, bony, bracket, breccia, brick,
   bricks and mortar, bunch, cake, candy, canvas, carpet, carpeting,
   causeway, cement, cemental, certain, clabber, clapboard, clear-cut,
   clinker, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, clot,
   clump, cluster, coagulate, coalesce, cobble, cobblestone, combine,
   compact, compacted, compound, compressed, concentrated, concretion,
   condense, condensed, congeal, congested, conglomerate,
   conglomeration, connect, consolidated, cork tile, corneous, couple,
   covering materials, crammed, crammed full, crowded, crystallize,
   curb, curbing, curbstone, curd, curdle, defined, definite,
   definitive, dense, detailed, determinate, diamond, diamondlike,
   different, distinct, distinguished, dry, dure, edgestone, esoteric,
   especial, exceptional, express, extraordinary, ferroconcrete,
   fiber glass, firebrick, firm, fixed, flag, flagging, flagstone,
   flint, flintlike, flinty, floor, flooring, gel, gelatinate,
   gelatinize, genuine, gluey, granite, granitelike, granitic,
   granulate, gravel, grout, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted,
   heart of oak, heavy, horny, impenetrable, impermeable, incrassate,
   individual, indurate, inner, inspissate, intimate, iron, iron-hard,
   ironlike, jam-packed, jammed, jell, jellify, jelly, kerb,
   kerbstone, knot, lapideous, lath and plaster, link, linoleum,
   literal, lithoid, lithoidal, lopper, lump, macadam, marble,
   marblelike, masonry, mass, massive, mastic, material, metal,
   minute, mortar, nails, node, nonporous, noteworthy, oak, obdurate,
   osseous, packed, palpable, pantile, paper, parget, parquet,
   particular, pave, pavement, pavestone, paving, paving material,
   paving stone, pebble, personal, physical, plaster, plasterboard,
   plasters, plywood, ponderable, precise, prestressed concrete,
   private, real, realistic, reliable, resistant, resistive,
   respective, road metal, rock, rocklike, rocky, roofage, roofing,
   roofing paper, roughcast, sensible, serried, set, several, shake,
   sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, siding, singular, slate, solid,
   solid body, solidify, solipsistic, special, specific, spun glass,
   steel, steellike, steely, stone, stonelike, stony, stucco,
   substantial, substantive, take a set, tangible, tar, tar paper,
   tarmacadam, thatch, thick, thick-growing, thicken, thickset, tile,
   tilestone, tiling, tough, unite, valid, veneer, viscid, viscose,
   viscous, wainscoting, wallboard, walling, wallpaper, washboard,
   weatherboard, wood

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

concrete, nd
  zip codes: 58220
concrete, wa town, fips 14380
  location: 48.53713 n, 121.74888 w
  population 1990: 735 313 housing units
  area: 3.1 sq km land, 0.1 sq km water
  zip codes: 98237

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

concrete, wa -- u.s. town in washington
   population 2000:    790
   housing units 2000: 335
   land area 2000:     1.214845 sq. miles 3.146435 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.020393 sq. miles 0.052818 sq. km
   total area 2000:    1.235238 sq. miles 3.199253 sq. km
   fips code:            14380
   located within:       washington wa, fips 53
   location:             48.539084 n, 121.747188 w
   zip codes 1990:     98237
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    concrete, wa
    concrete

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