Definitions for concretes

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concretes con·crete

Spelling: [kon-kreet, kong-, kon-kreet, kong- for 1–10, 13–15

IPA: /ˈkɒn krit, ˈkɒŋ-, kɒnˈkrit, kɒŋ- for 1–10, 13–15; kɒnˈkrit, kɒŋ- for 11, 12/

Concretes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 396 anagrams from letters in concretes (cceenorst).

Definitions for concretes

noun

1. an artificial, stonelike material used for various structural purposes, made by mixing cement and various aggregates, as sand, pebbles, gravel, or shale, with water and allowing the mixture to harden. Compare reinforced concrete.
2. any of various other artificial building or paving materials, as those containing tar.
3. a concrete idea or term; a word or notion having an actual or existent thing or instance as its referent.
4. a mass formed by coalescence or concretion of particles of matter.

Idioms

1. set / cast in concrete, to put (something) in final form; finalize so as to prevent change or reversal:

adjective

1. constituting an actual thing or instance; real:
2. pertaining to or concerned with realities or actual instances rather than abstractions; particular (opposed to general):
3. representing or applied to an actual substance or thing, as opposed to an abstract quality:
4. made of concrete:
5. formed by coalescence of separate particles into a mass; united in a coagulated, condensed, or solid mass or state.

verb (used with object)

1. to treat or lay with concrete:
2. to form into a mass by coalescence of particles; render solid.
3. to make real, tangible, or particular.

verb (used without object)

1. to coalesce into a mass; become solid; harden.
2. to use or apply concrete.

Origin of concretes

1375-1425; late Middle English concret Latin concrētus (past participle of concrēscere to grow together), equivalent to con- con- + crē- (stem of crēscere to grow, inc

Examples for concretes

The concrete building from which the sounds emanate shakes from the impact, rattling the colorful houses on the dirt roads nearby.

For instance, take a concrete case; so best can we illustrate.

When they are full, many landfills are capped—covered with asphalt or concrete.

As a writer, I tried mainly to stick close to the concrete particulars of the events and the performances I was describing.

D.C., but it is not likely to result in any concrete and meaningful action.

It was the most common and concrete opportunity to do unto others as you would wish to have done unto you.

This third line of trenches was protected with armor plate and concrete.

Their front is one unbroken wall of sheet iron and concrete.

And the bridges are not of iron and concrete, but of rainbows and––moonshine!

In other words, and to be concrete, put these things in the car while I fold the blanket.