Concrete (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. an artificial, stonelike material used for various structural purposes, made by mixing cement and various aggregates, as sand, pebbles, gravel, or shale, with water and allowing the mixture to harden.
  2. any of various artificial building or paving materials, as those containing tar.
  3. an idea, observation, term, or word having an actual or existent thing or instance as its referent, as opposed to its being abstract: Psychology is all about feelings and behavior, but I’m more interested in the concrete—and that’s why I became a surgeon.
  4. a mass formed by coalescence or concretion of particles of matter.
adjective
  1. constituting an actual thing or instance; real: concrete proof of his sincerity.
  2. relating to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular (opposed to general): concrete ideas.
  3. representing or applied to an actual substance or thing, as opposed to an abstract quality: The words “cat,” “water,” and “teacher” are concrete, whereas the words “truth,” “excellence,” and “adulthood” are abstract.
  4. made of concrete: a concrete pavement;concrete lawn ornaments.
  5. formed by coalescence of separate particles into a mass; united in a coagulated, condensed, or solid mass or state.
verb (used with object), con·cret·ed, con·cret·ing.
  1. to treat or lay with concrete: to concrete a sidewalk.
  2. to form into a mass by coalescence of particles; render solid: Of these two semiliquid solutions, which one do you think can be more easily concreted?
  3. to make real, tangible, or particular.
verb (used without object), con·cret·ed, con·cret·ing.
  1. to coalesce into a mass; become solid; harden: Has it started to concrete?
  2. to use or apply concrete: We can’t begin concreting until all the forms have been installed.
Idioms
  1. stone (def. 33).
noun
    • a construction material made of a mixture of cement, sand, stone, and water that hardens to a stonelike mass
    • (as modifier)
  2. a rigid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles
adjective
  1. relating to a particular instance or object; specific as opposed to general
    • relating to or characteristic of things capable of being perceived by the senses, as opposed to abstractions
    • (as noun)
  3. formed by the coalescence of particles; condensed; solid
verb
  1. to construct in or cover with concrete
  2. to become or cause to become solid; coalesce
Concrete (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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