concrete

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Real, actual, tangible.

   “Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that Bigfoot exists.”

2. sıfat Analogous to the categories of algebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of as sets equipped with some additional structure. Formally, equipped with a faithful functor to the category of sets.
3. sıfat Equipped with a faithful functor to X (called a base category), in which case C is called a concrete category over X.
4. sıfat Being or applying to actual things, rather than abstract qualities or categories.

   “Concrete Terms, while they expreſs the Quality, do alſo either expreſs, or imply, or refer to ſome Subject to which it belongs; as white, round, long, broad, wiſe, mortal, living, dead.”

5. sıfat Particular, specific, rather than general.

   “While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.”

6. sıfat Made of concrete (building material).

   “The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.”

7. sıfat Made up of separate parts; composite.

   “I cannot wholly expreſs him, I wot not what to call him, but a certain thing altogether made of the hatred of God, of miſtruſt in God, of wings, deceits, diſcord, manſlaughters, and in a word, a thing concrete and heaped up of perjuries, and made of all kind of miſchief.”

8. sıfat Not liquid or fluid; solid.

   “He [Thales] saw that the breeding of animals is in moisture; that the seeds and kernels of plants (as long as they are productive and fresh), are likewise soft and tender; that metals also melt and become fluid, and are as it were concrete juices of the earth, or rather a kind of mineral waters; […]”

9. isim 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.”

10. isim 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.”

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

    “Whence follows, that the Abſtract Terms, [Entity] or [Eſſence] do properly ſignify [A Capacity of Being.] Tho' Entity is often us'd as a Concrete for the Thing it ſelf.”

12. isim A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.

    “Paradoxically richer and yet lighter than ice cream, frozen custard is softly served, and at Curly's you can have your I vanilla or chocolate flavor custard "concrete" style, with your choice of a rainbow of candy and fruit toppings whipped in.”

13. isim An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.

    “Once the material is exhausted, the solvent containing the dissolved essential oil is distilled. This process removes the solvent, leaving behind the extracted matter, which is known as a concrete. The concrete is processed further to produce an absolute for use in perfumery.”

14. isim Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

    “The concrete is made by ingredients which are to remove the feculencies from the cane-juice as soon as expressed from the mill and which check fermentation; indeed juice may be kept for a week after the canes have been gruond, without turning acid, when these ingredients have been used.”

15. isim Any solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.

    “But if Gold it ſelf be admitted, as it muſt be, for a porous Concrete, the proportion of Void to Body in the texture of common Air will be ſo much the greater.”

16. fiil To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).

    “I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.”

17. fiil To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).

    “Just so economics has concreted the concept of capital. The law needs a term for the material and quasi-material objects of property.”

18. fiil To unite or coalesce into a solid mass.

    “The Blood of ſome Perſons who have dy'd of the Plague could not be made to concrete, by reaſon of the Putrefaction already begun.”