concrete : Idioms & Phrases
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concrete jungle
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noun an area in a city with large modern buildings that is perceived as dangerous and unpleasant
WordNet
concrete mixer
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noun a machine with a large revolving drum in which cement is mixed with other materials to make concrete
cement mixer.
WordNet
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.
Webster 1913
Concrete quantity
- a physical object or a collection of such objects. Davies & Peck.
Webster 1913
concrete representation
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noun a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms
concretism.
WordNet
Concrete science
- a physical science, one having as its subject of knowledge concrete things instead of abstract laws.
Webster 1913
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.
Webster 1913
reinforced concrete
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noun concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses
ferroconcrete.
