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Concrete vs Essential - What's the difference?

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Concrete is a related term of essential.


As adjectives the difference between concrete and essential

is that concrete is while essential is necessary.

As a noun essential is

a necessary ingredient.

concrete

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Particular, perceivable, real.
    • Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
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  • Not abstract.
    • Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete , even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
  • * John Stuart Mill
    • The names of individuals are concrete , those of classes abstract.
  • * I. Watts
    • Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
  • United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
  • Made of concrete building material.
    • The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.

    Synonyms

    * (perceivable) tangible * (not abstract) tangible

    Antonyms

    * (perceivable) intangible * (not abstract) intangible, abstract

    Noun

    (wikipedia concrete) (-)
  • A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.
    • The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
  • A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles.
  • * 1661 , , p. 26:
    • "...upon the suppos’d (term) made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes , there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...
  • (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
  • * 2010 , June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth (page 54)
    • Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes —custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds,
  • * John Lutz, Diamond Eyes (page 170)
    • When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chip concretes .
  • (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
  • * John Stuart Mill
    • The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
  • Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.

    • Derived terms

    * -crete * reinforced concrete * shotcrete

    See also

    * cement * mortar * UHPC

    Verb

    (concret)
  • To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .
    • I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
  • To solidify.
    • Josie’s plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.
  • To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete .

    Derived terms

    * concrete jungle * concretion * concretize/concretise * concrete canyon ----

    essential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Necessary.
  • Very important; of high importance.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-17
    • , author=George Monbiot, authorlink=George Monbiot , title=Money just makes the rich suffer , volume=188, issue=23, page=19 , magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) citation , passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. […]}}
  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
    • Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
  • Really existing; existent.
  • * Webster (1623)
    • Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?
  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
  • (medicine) Idiopathic.

    • Synonyms

    * indispensable, crucial, substantive * See also

    Antonyms

    * inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidental

    Derived terms

    * essential amino acid * essential fatty acid * essential listening * essential nutrient * essential oil * essentially * essentialness * quintessential

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A necessary ingredient.
  • A fundamental ingredient.

    • Related terms

    * essence ----