Concrete vs Concretization - What's the difference?
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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.
* 1661 , , p. 26:
(US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
* 2010 , June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth (page 54)
* 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
(uncountable) The process of concretizing]] a general principle or idea by delineating, [[particularize, particularizing, or exemplifying it.
* 1934 , J. Tinbergen, "Annual Survey of Significant Developments in General Economic Theory," Econometrica , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 25:
* 1961 , H. Kelsen, General Theory of Law and State , p. 237:
(countable) Something specific which is the result of a process of concretizing a general principle or idea.
* 1979 , Trudy Scott, "Stuart Sherman's Singular Spectacles," The Drama Review: TDR , vol. 23, no. 1, p. 75:
* 1993 , Lubomír Doležel, "Semiotic Poetics of the Prague School," in Irene Rima Makaryk (ed.) Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms , ISBN 9780802068606,
(uncountable, medicine, psychology) An inability to generalize or perform abstraction accompanied by excessive concentration on specific details, as in a mental disorder or in cognition by children.
* 1969 , E. Drage and B. Lange, "Ethical Considerations in the Use of Patients for Demonstration," The American Journal of Nursing , vol. 69, no. 10, p. 2165:
Concrete is a related term of concretization.
As an adjective concrete
is .As a noun concretization is
(uncountable) the process of concretizing]] a general principle or idea by delineating, [[particularize|particularizing, or exemplifying it.concrete
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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 ----concretization
English
Alternative forms
* concretisationNoun
- There are certain fields in general economics that are at present not so much in need of a broadening of the theoretical basis as in need of a minute working-out and concretization .
- [Law] proceeds from the general (abstract) to the individual (particular); it is a process of increasing individualization and concretization .
- This movement gave Sherman his first image—a roller skate—a concretization of pure motion.
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- Vodicka's reception history is an empirical study of the post-genesis fortunes of literary works as attested in recorded concretizations (diaries, memoirs, letters, critical reviews, and essays).
- Another [patient] commented on the fact that the consultant had referred to two of them as "boys" in the demonstration. The concretization of a schizophrenic is exemplified here. One man thought this word meant that the consultant, in order "to keep things on the level of boy-girl, wanted everyone else to consider her as a girl, so the boys and girls could communicate."
Usage notes
* Concretization' and '''concretion''' are rough synonyms but are usually not used interchangeably. '''Concretization''' is more commonly used to refer to a particular embodiment of a general concept or to the process which creates it. ' Concretion is more commonly used to refer to a physical, especially geological, object or to the physical process which creates it.Antonyms
* abstractionReferences
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