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Concrete
CONCRETE, a. [L., to grow together, to grow. See Grow.]
1. Literally, united in growth. Hence, formed by coalition of separate particles in one body; consistent in a mass; united in a solid form.
The first concrete state or consistent surface of the chaos.
2. In logic, applied to a subject; not abstract; as the whiteness of snow. Here whiteness is used as a concrete term, as it expresses the quality of snow.
Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to a subject to which they belong.
A concrete number expresses or denotes a particular subject, as three men; but when we use a number without reference to a subject, as three, or five, we use the term in the abstract.
CONCRETE, n.
1. A compound; a mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
Gold is a porous concrete.
2. In philosophy, a mass or compound body, made up of different ingredients; a mixed body or mass.
Soap is a factutious concrete.
3. In logic, a concrete term; a term that includes both the quality and the subject in which it exists; as nigrum, a black thing.
CONCRETE, v.i. To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body, chiefly by spontaneous cohesion, or other natural process; as saline particles concrete into crystals; blood concretes in a bowl. Applied to some substances, it is equivalent to indurate; as, metallic matter concretes into a hard body. Applied to other substances, it is equivalent to congeal, thicken, inspissate,, coagulate; as in the concretion of blood.
CONCRETE, v.t. To form a mass by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
concrete appears in definitions for these words:
Abstract Asa-fetida Balsam Benzoin Bittern Butter Cake Camphor Camphor-tree Cloagulated Clod Clot Clotted Clotter Coagulable Coagulate Concoagulated Concrement Concrescence Concrete Concretely Concreteness Concretive Congeal Congealed Copal Crudy Crust Curdle Dissociate Dissolution Fat Galban Gamboge Gelatin Grumous Grumousness Gum Ice Icing Impasted Incoagulable Kernel Manna Mass Mother Mothery Oolite Precipitance Rennet Resin Runnet Set Sugar-candy Tartar Thicken Thickness Uncoagulated Uncongealed Vegeto-animal
Abstract Asa-fetida Balsam Benzoin Bittern Butter Cake Camphor Camphor-tree Cloagulated Clod Clot Clotted Clotter Coagulable Coagulate Concoagulated Concrement Concrescence Concrete Concretely Concreteness Concretive Congeal Congealed Copal Crudy Crust Curdle Dissociate Dissolution Fat Galban Gamboge Gelatin Grumous Grumousness Gum Ice Icing Impasted Incoagulable Kernel Manna Mass Mother Mothery Oolite Precipitance Rennet Resin Runnet Set Sugar-candy Tartar Thicken Thickness Uncoagulated Uncongealed Vegeto-animal
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