Concrete vs False - What's the difference?
concrete | false |
Particular, perceivable, real.
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Not abstract.
* John Stuart Mill
* I. Watts
United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
* Bishop Burnet
Made of concrete building material.
A building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.
A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles.
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(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
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* John Lutz, Diamond Eyes (page 170)
(logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
* John Stuart Mill
Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
To cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .
To solidify.
To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
* Arbuthnot
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As adjectives the difference between concrete and false
is that concrete is while false is (label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.concrete
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.
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- Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete , even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
- The names of individuals are concrete , those of classes abstract.
- Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.
- The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.
- The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.
Synonyms
* (perceivable) tangible * (not abstract) tangibleAntonyms
* (perceivable) intangible * (not abstract) intangible, abstractNoun
(wikipedia concrete) (-)- The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.
- "...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...
- Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes —custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds,
- 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 .
- The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".
Derived terms
* -crete * reinforced concrete * shotcreteSee also
* cement * mortar * UHPCVerb
(concret)- I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn.
- Josie’s plans began concreting once she fixed a date for the wedding.
- The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete .
Derived terms
* concrete jungle * concretion * concretize/concretise * concrete canyon ----false
English
Adjective
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