Definition of Concrete

Concrete

United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.

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.

Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.

A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.

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.

A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.

To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.

To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.

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Concrete Quotations

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Dale Carnegie

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Viktor E. Frankl

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul Sartre

We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
Salvador Dali

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer

No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
William James

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
Hannah Arendt

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
Jorge Luis Borges

In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
Theodor Adorno

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
Mark Rothko

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
Robert Sternberg

The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
Charles E. Wilson

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Alfred North Whitehead

There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Wentworth Miller

In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.
Ferdinand de Saussure

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Paul Cezanne

The different Ministries have to work more on the promotion of the country, to build Kosovo's public image. Concrete projects must be assembled, in order to activate our businessmen to have more contacts. We have to create a positive image about ourselves.
Ibrahim Rugova

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.
Tadao Ando

Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Gustave Courbet

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.
J. P. Morgan

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.
Ibrahim Babangida

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
Muhammad Iqbal

We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.
Eric Liu

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Concrete Translations

concrete in Danish is beton
concrete in Dutch is beton
concrete in German is Beton
concrete in Hungarian is beton, beton-
concrete in Italian is calcestruzzo
concrete in Norwegian is betong, konkret
concrete in Swedish is betong, konkret

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