Concrete

  • 11Concrete, 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… …

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  • 12concrete — ► ADJECTIVE 1) existing in a material or physical form; not abstract. 2) specific; definite: concrete proof. ► NOUN ▪ a building material made from gravel, sand, cement, and water, hardening when dry into a stone like mass. ► VERB ▪ cover or fix… …

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  • 13Concrete — Con*crete , 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… …

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  • 14Concrete — 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.… …

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  • 15Concrete — Con*crete , 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… …

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  • 16concrété — concrété, ée (kon kré té, tée) part. passé. Devenu concret. L opium concrété sur les capsules incisées du pavot dont il découle …

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  • 17concrete — [adj1] actual, factual accurate, corporeal, definite, detailed, explicit, material, objective, particular, precise, real, sensible, solid, specific, substantial, tangible; concept 535 Ant. abstract, ideal, immaterial, intangible concrete [adj2]… …

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  • 18concrete — (adj.) late 14c., actual, solid, from L. concretus condensed, hardened, thick, hard, stiff, curdled, congealed, clotted, figuratively thick; dim, lit. grown together; pp. of concrescere to grow together, from com together (see COM (Cf. com )) +… …

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  • 19Concrete — This article is about the construction material. For other uses, see Concrete (disambiguation). Outer view of the Roman Pantheon, still the largest unreinforced solid concrete dome.[1] …

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  • 20concrete — concretely, adv. concreteness, n. concretive, adj. concretively, adv. /kon kreet, kong , kon kreet , kong / for 1 10, 11, 14, 15; /kon kreet , kong / for 12, 13, adj., n., v., concreted, concreting. adj. 1. constituting an actual thing or… …

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