Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

    Various types of concrete have been used in the construction of this highway.

    Beton

    бето́нbetón

    бето́нbetón

    a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water

  2. A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

    (countable, especially, uncountable)Such a material whose cement is Portland cement or a similar limestone derivative.

    The sidewalk was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.

  3. (countable, uncountable)A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.

  4. (US, countable, uncountable)A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.

  5. (countable, uncountable)An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.

  6. (countable, obsolete, possibly, uncountable)Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

  7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.

Examples

161 sentences
  1. Our plans are not yet concrete.

    ruМы пока не имеем конкретных планов. — Lenin_1917

    deUnsere Pläne sind noch nicht konkret. — BraveSentry

  2. Tom doesn't have any concrete plans.

    ruУ Тома нет никаких конкретных планов. — marafon

  3. Much more concrete will be needed.

  4. Tom says he has no concrete plans.

  5. Tom says he doesn't have any concrete plans.

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
building material:
Русский
By meaning 1
building material:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
building material:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, t

Borrowed from Latin concrētus, past participle of concrescō (to curdle) from con- (with, together) + crescō (to grow, rise).

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Forms

plural: concretes
Singularconcrete
Pluralconcretes

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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