(a.) United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form.
(a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract.
(a.) Applied to a specific object; special; particular; -- opposed to general. See Abstract, 3.
(n.) A compound or mass formed by concretion, spontaneous union, or coalescence of separate particles of matter in one body.
(n.) A mixture of gravel, pebbles, or broken stone with cement or with tar, etc., used for sidewalks, roadways, foundations, etc., and esp. for submarine structures.
(n.) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
(n.) Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
(v. i.) To unite or coalesce, as separate particles, into a mass or solid body.
(v. t.) To form into a mass, as by the cohesion or coalescence of separate particles.
(v. t.) To cover with, or form of, concrete, as a pavement.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
(2) This study investigates the photoneutron field found in medical accelerator rooms with primary barriers constructed of metal slabs plus concrete.
(3) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(4) The question of ethics inevitably arises, and should be considered before a concrete situation arises which leaves no time for reflection.
(5) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
(6) As a result of a psychopathological total systems analysis of the debut of exogenously aggravated and nonaggravated paranoid schizophrenia the authors have revealed a significant interrelationship allowing the characterization of both general regularities of the "background" effect and individual characteristics secondary to a concrete nature of exogenous impact.
(7) Fifty-seven percent had concrete evidence of serious psychiatric disorder.
(8) Fifa and I will take the Qatari authorities at their word and I look forward to the concrete actions which will be the real testament of will,” Infantino said.
(9) Three attributes of words are their imageability, concreteness, and familiarity.
(10) The paper finishes with concrete propositions of proceeding when the computer system is implemented and shows possibilities of scientific data evaluation of a microbiological data base.
(11) Now, with cuts biting every community and public service in the UK, the possibility for a full-blown confrontation between the government and an anti-austerity movement has become concrete.
(12) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
(13) What we need is international action now, and that’s precisely what we are doing today with real concrete action in the war against tax evasion.” He said the transparency rules on beneficial ownership showed that Britain and other governments were working to shine a spotlight on “those hiding spaces, those dark corners of the global financial system”.
(14) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
(15) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(16) described in Lösungen - an analysis of concrete treatment examples could yield suitable therapeutic techniques to broaden the interventional spectrum of psychotherapy, especially of behavioral oriented forms.
(17) In a bid to strengthen its claims, China has constructed concrete installations on some underwater formations, complete with basketballs and helipads.
(18) Its sword-shaped columns tower up almost 100 feet, and grey concrete walls careen around its nearly half-mile circumference.
(19) What remains to be developed is a "differential health psychology of the concrete individual", which might the way for prophylactic health promotion oriented towards the norm of individuality.
(20) The presence of similar concretion in the nervous system as well as the lung in other reported cases suggests that microlithiasis could be a systemic disease.
Masonry
Definition:
(n.) The art or occupation of a mason.
(n.) The work or performance of a mason; as, good or bad masonry; skillful masonry.
(n.) That which is built by a mason; anything constructed of the materials used by masons, such as stone, brick, tiles, or the like. Dry masonry is applied to structures made without mortar.
(n.) The craft, institution, or mysteries of Freemasons; freemasonry.
Example Sentences:
(1) The images, of corpses pulled out from beneath collapsed masonry, to a bloodied underground emergency room floor, are simply appalling.
(2) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
(3) Owners of the walls have cut out chunks of masonry and plaster to remove them for sale, mourned by local people who had enjoyed the eruption of art into their streets.
(4) The RPG launcher fired first, releasing a thundering boom, a huge cloud of dust and the sounds of cascading glass, metal and masonry.
(5) A 52-year-old senior officer in London [In] Tottenham I sustained in about the first seven or eight minutes a blow to the head from what must have been a piece of dense masonry.
(6) The Daily Telegraph contacted 50 masonry firms in their search for the stone, while the Sun set up a hotline for any information.
(7) A young Filipino family narrowly escaped injury when some of the shrapnel from masonry dislodged off the cemetery war hit their car.
(8) We treated fifteen patients who had been trapped under the masonry of collapsed buildings for various periods of time.
(9) The only clear view was in the front and there was definitely large bits of masonry and concrete being thrown.
(10) And the rubble itself, mountains of it: homes reduced to grey lumps of masonry, mangled metal, shards of glass.
(11) At Gaddafi's compound, supporters who gather nightly to act as human shields against the air strikes climbed on the shattered building shortly after the blasts, as chunks of masonry fell.
(12) By the time the funeral was over the streets were blocked by temporary barricades and littered with broken masonry, the tarmac scorched black after almost three days of rioting to protest against his murder, which Palestinians allege was carried out as a revenge attack for the killing of three Israeli teenagers .
(13) Within minutes to hours after extrication of survivors trapped under fallen masonry (and immediately following decompression of limbs), a massive volume of extracellular fluid is lost into the injured muscles, leading to circulatory failure.
(14) The Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday tried some investigative journalism to locate the boulder, contacting more than 50 masonry firms across the UK – none of whom admitted to creating the monument.
(15) The Guardian eventually tracked the stone down to a warehouse in south London , owned by Paye Stonework & Masonry Ltd.
(16) There was smoke and thick dust everywhere, fallen masonry and fittings were blocking sections of the steps and splinters of glass covered the staircase where Picasso’s sand-blasted lines hung undamaged.
(17) The remaining masonry stands against the dramatic backdrop of the Rumija mountains, with a reconstructed church and clock tower offering a haunting reminder of a time when this town was the most important in Montenegro.
(18) From rue Fontaine, bullets had ripped holes in the external masonry; inside you could see the shredded remains of furniture; the window frames had been shot out.
(19) The structures, selected from available buildings, were made of various materials (reinforced concrete, masonry, sandbags, and wood) and ranged in volume from 14m3 to 161 m3 with venting areas from 2.9 m2 to 11 m2.
(20) "There were a lot of police conscripts going inside and trying to find their friends, and there was masonry falling down on them in front of the building."