(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.
Reify
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The need for complex psychotherapy is reified by using the combination of group psychotherapy with methods of individual and behavioral therapy as an example.
(2) Technical virtuosity reifies the mechanical model and widens the gap between what patients seek and doctors provide.
(3) Notoriously, the networks of homosexuality seemed to transcend many more formal social and political boundaries, reifying crossovers not only between national and ethnic cultures, but between high society and the demi-mondes of bohemian artists, and so forth.
(4) No menopausal disturbances are however recorded until the social convulsions of the French Revolution, and the regimes which followed, seem to have crystalized the various complaints of the climacteric into a disease-expression, which reified the social stress to which women were subject.
(5) But all they did was reify racial problems.” Prater, the business owner, father and husband, says he is taken aback when he sees police officers in his majority white suburb of Grosse Pointe Park smiling with residents and throwing a football with them in their local park.
(6) There is the danger that 'body image disturbances' become reified based upon group differences on a particular operational measure.
(7) Variability among physicians in diagnosing reactive hypoglycemia illustrates some fundamental problems of reifying the concept of disease.
(8) Reified in many popular tests, it has withstood onslaughts from factor analysis, from concerned social scientists, from judicial fiat, and from scientific knowledge about mental abilities, brain functions, and neuropathology.
(9) While the Cuban program appears to be every bit as individualistic as the North American Program, theirs may not be comparable to the US program because Cubans are less likely than Americans to reify the state.
(10) White males exist with the most social power and therefore by excluding them as subjects in their advertising campaigns, Peta continually reifies our social hierarchy of bodies.
(11) Clearly this functions dialectically to expose the contradictions inherent in the ideological construction of globalised sporting competitions as capable of uniting divided nations at the precise moment when those nations are divisively expressing their national identities in the most reified manner.
(12) Not only were ideas of community reified, but also entire new communities were created by people who had not consciously thought of themselves as particularly different from others around them.
(13) It suggests that the concept role was itself a reified concept and that its "metaphorical extension" to cover chiropractors constitutes a double jeopardy for health scientists.
(14) "It seems that social media works not towards change – of society, notions of individuality and connectedness, and so on – but rather as a conservative force that tends to strengthen the conventional social relations and to reify society as Italians enjoy and recognise it.
(15) Through increasing specialization, the once unified biological perspective of man was severely fragmented, and with increasing emphasis on the science of medicine, the disease process was objectified and reified.
(16) Our analysis suggests this style of drug advertising produces, as a social side-effect, a reified and medicalized account of psychiatric illness (depression).
(17) The fundamental challenge, said Noland, is the fundamental challenge is the north's policy of developing nuclear weapons and the economy in parallel; "a contradiction reified as doctrine".
(18) Reproduction has been proposed as a cause of debilitation and psychological disturbance for centuries, recently reified through the three reproductive syndromes, the premenstrual syndrome, postnatal depression and the menopausal syndrome.
(19) The superficial similarity of both concepts, albeit substituting a "tangible" substance by an ideational one, helps to explain why it has been so difficult to avoid the temptation to reify psychoanalytic concepts.
(20) It argues that while the Cuban program appears to be every bit as individualistic as the North American program, theirs may not be comparable to ours because Cubans are less likely than Americans to reify the state.