What is the difference between subject and concrete?
subject | concrete |
Likely to be affected by or to experience something.
* Dryden
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Placed or situated under; lying below, or in a lower situation.
Placed under the power of another; owing allegiance to a particular sovereign or state.
* John Locke
(label) In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
The main topic of a paper, work of art, discussion, field of study, etc.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= A citizen in a monarchy.
A person ruled over by another, especially a monarch or state authority.
(label) The main theme or melody, especially in a fugue.
* (1823-1895)
A human, animal or an inanimate object that is being examined, treated, analysed, etc.
* (Conyers Middleton) (1683-1750)
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= To cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted.
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
As adjectives the difference between subject and concrete
is that subject is likely to be affected by or experience something while concrete is particular, perceivable, real.As nouns the difference between subject and concrete
is that subject is (grammar) in a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with in active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same while concrete is a building material created by mixing portland cement, water, and aggregate including gravel and sand.As verbs the difference between subject and concrete
is that subject is to cause (someone or something) to undergo a particular experience, especially one that is unpleasant or unwanted while concrete is to cover with or encase in concrete; often constructed as concrete over .subject
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a country subject to extreme heat
- All human things are subject to decay.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- (Spenser)
- Esau was never subject to Jacob.
Noun
(en noun)- the subject for heroic song
- Make choice of a subject , beautiful and noble, which shall afford an ample field of matter wherein to expatiate.
- the unhappy subject of these quarrels
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A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.
- The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus , or plain song.
- Writers of particular livesare apt to be prejudiced in favour of their subject .
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Synonyms
* (discussion) matter, topicDerived terms
* subject titleSee also
* object * predicateVerb
(en verb)Synonyms
*Statistics
*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 .