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concrete
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a specific/concrete proposal ▪ The report will make specific proposals for further investigation. concrete jungle concrete mixer concrete noun reinforced concrete stone/brick/concrete wall ▪ The estate is surrounded by high stone walls. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS NOUN action ▪ Similarly, the government must take concrete action. base ▪ Mastic asphalt can be laid over any deck but, in general, a general, a concrete base is preferred. ▪ But next morning I was shovelling away anew, soon to discover the concrete base of the original pool. block ▪ Most likely to suffer are concrete block houses built in the Twenties and Thirties and earlier buildings where shuttered concrete was employed. ▪ There was another little room, the Quiet Room, plain concrete block walls without chairs or windows. ▪ Meanwhile, powerful United States Army helicopters continued dropping massive concrete blocks to hinder the lava flow. ▪ This building also will be made of structural steel and concrete blocks. ▪ The concrete block shell was in place by early 1992 ready for the 25-week facing brickwork stage to begin. ▪ Since then, her head has felt like a concrete block. ▪ Construction method would be single walled using concrete blocks and bricks. ▪ A hand inscribed concrete block says' A Sailor's Grave. building ▪ You can see it from here - that concrete building. ▪ Red brick dormitories and concrete buildings that rose like geometric blocks from a foundation of asphalt and cement. ▪ Below Manescu saw a complex of concrete buildings and a circular tower block surrounded by a high wire fence. ▪ Building officials said the highest risks are from pre-1976 concrete buildings. ▪ More than these towering concrete buildings - these prison walls of glass and stone. ▪ We drove up to a group of concrete buildings that looked like dormitories. ▪ Grey concrete buildings that had been thrown up, always wherever they could be fitted in, on either side. bunker ▪ It's rather like a concrete bunker but hopefully with some work we can make it look quite nice. ▪ The primary edifice, Mandeville Center, is about as inviting as a concrete bunker. evidence ▪ They were continual concrete evidence of the sleight of hand which had conjured me from one world to another. ▪ The report appears content that such rhetorical gaps loom between the concrete evidence it amasses and the maxims it imparts. ▪ In the absence of any concrete evidence of an agreement it is unlikely that this could have been done. ▪ Not even the National Enquirer can dispute such concrete evidence. example ▪ The present chapter provides concrete examples of such an evaluation. ▪ For a concrete example, consider again the commercial airliner industry. ▪ We do this via some concrete examples, simple enough to allow the logical principle involved to be easily seen. ▪ I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example. ▪ They sometimes contain concrete examples of changes which need to be made. ▪ To give a concrete example, consider the capsule to be falling radially toward the Earth. ▪ The message here is: Don't be afraid to examine lots of concrete examples. ▪ Let me give a concrete example of what I mean. floor ▪ His shoes were off and his cloven hooves showered sparks across the concrete floor. ▪ He fell and hit his head on the concrete floor. ▪ In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor. ▪ On the concrete floor inside are tire tracks, and skid marks where kids have done wheelies or donuts. ▪ A low interest loan from an anonymous benefactor allowed the concrete floor to go in. ▪ The lowest six stories were fully framed and concrete floors were being poured. ▪ This policy of renewal was effected by installing a replacement internal structure of load-bearing brick walls and insitu concrete floors. ▪ There were pools of water on the concrete floor, and all around a smell of dead and standing air. form ▪ Typically, a project takes concrete form as a document or suchlike. ▪ It might take concrete form as civic leadership groups, public-private partnerships, industry councils, or other institution-spanning bodies. ▪ All these issues take concrete form in the exchange's rules and regulations. ▪ The concrete form in which the host may benefit is, as noted in the previous chapter, the creation of linkages. ▪ The City's only the outward, concrete form of it. foundation ▪ A concrete foundation is laid after digging down to firm ground. ▪ Currently, the bridge towers sit on concrete foundations that are anchored to bay soils by 85-foot Douglas fir timbers. ▪ What you say during a political campaign is the concrete foundation of it. ▪ Designers are considering enlarging and strengthening the concrete foundations, and anchoring them into Bay soils with steel pilings. ▪ One man glued a pressure-treated board to a concrete foundation in his basement. jungle ▪ Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is, well, a concrete jungle really. mixer ▪ The concrete mixers with lethal faults. ▪ He was working on a building site at Middle Barton in North Oxfordshire when a concrete mixer rolled back toward a workman. operation ▪ Consider two of the characteristic features of the first sub-stage of the period Piaget calls the period of concrete operations. ▪ During concrete operations, affect acquires a measure of stability and consistency that was not present earlier. ▪ With the attainment of concrete operations, the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges. ▪ The child at the stage of concrete operations can assume the viewpoint of others and spoken language is social and communicative. ▪ During concrete operations, the use of language becomes more fully communicative in function. ▪ With the development of concrete operations, language becomes less egocentric. ▪ Not until the stage of concrete operations do accurate concepts appear. ▪ Some will be in concrete operations. path ▪ Barak led them up a narrow concrete path to the unpainted door and opened it. ▪ Stepping off the concrete path on to gravel was a new sensation and he felt himself slide and stumble. ▪ Peter walked up the concrete path and let himself into the house. ▪ Footsteps clicked on the concrete path that led along the side of the bungalow. ▪ Then they both creep along the pavement, on to the concrete path, up the concrete stairs to the waiting concrete flat. ▪ This concrete path is cracking up under the strain of thousands of paws padding over it. ▪ It makes very loud crunching, splitting noises on the concrete path. ▪ The concrete paths had been cleared of snow and ice. problem ▪ It will always be based on the concrete problems encountered by communities in real situations. ▪ But an awareness of history and an appreciation of the aims of the Founding Fathers do not always resolve concrete problems. ▪ If we can not help in the analysis of concrete problems, we should keep our mouths firmly shut. ▪ In addition, they can not correctly reason about concrete problems that involve many variables. ▪ We want to address ourselves to concrete problems in today's world. ▪ It is interesting to note that the two problems just presented are concrete problems. ▪ It was rather to identify some of the concrete problems which would have to be faced in any such exercise. ▪ Children can solve conservation problems and most concrete problems. proposal ▪ A lot of words, and a few concrete proposals. ▪ He had concrete proposals and made his case simply. ▪ Although the White paper states the importance of the informal sector there are few concrete proposals as to how this will develop. reality ▪ But what concrete reality lies behind that abstraction? ▪ Media education, therefore, should respect the concrete reality of the media situation in each region or sub-region. result ▪ Talks with commercial bank creditors over two days were reported on June 21 to have failed to produce concrete results. ▪ It is an elegant procedure, producing satisfyingly concrete results when it works, which it did for us. ▪ The main concrete result of the discussions was a preliminary agreement on chemical weapons. situation ▪ But many statutory duties are couched in quite vague terms which leave it unclear what the duty-bearer must do in concrete situations. ▪ Scientists holding these values may make different choices in the same concrete situation. ▪ The debate over the middle peasantry can only be resolved by referring to concrete situations. slab ▪ Previous development may also have left old foundations, concrete slabs and basements which must be identified and quantified for additional cost. ▪ Very important to know, because suppose you got permafrost under your concrete slab? ▪ Now the club lies under pulverised concrete slabs. ▪ Speedo changed position on the concrete slab. ▪ The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs. ▪ Crisp precast concrete slabs are teamed with brick, the latter helping to soften the overall surface. ▪ This block is made out of a steel structure covered with concrete slabs and masked with a red brick shell. ▪ And over it had meshed a concrete slab, which now the lever of the house was painfully and irresistibly easing up. structure ▪ It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times. ▪ Collagen normally functions like steel reinforcing rods in a concrete structure. ▪ The concrete structure should be sufficiently dense to limit water ingress to ensure that the system can cope. ▪ Some specialize-for example, in structural steel or reinforced concrete structures. ▪ Cladding for the concrete structure is once again in tune with the surrounding area. ▪ She pointed to a concrete structure, the size of a one-car garage, with a metal roof. ▪ The four zones are contained within a single reinforced concrete structure made both with concrete cast in-situ and precast concrete. ▪ A row of eighteenth-century baroque merchants' houses was interrupted half-way along by a steel and concrete structure. wall ▪ Collisions with concrete walls have broken three of his ribs and shattered a kneecap. ▪ The Noedings have put in a L-shaped concrete wall 2 feet above ground and 2 feet below to protect their house. ▪ Freed of its burden, the cab sped on, rammed into a low concrete wall. ▪ Otherwise, the basement is well underground, and Jasper had himself forced the hooks into the concrete wall. ▪ Concrete beams and a concrete wall will tend to move as one. ▪ It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall. ▪ The method is more environmentally friendly than building concrete walls. ▪ He was in a bare cellar: concrete floor, concrete walls, perhaps a wine-cellar converted to a new purpose. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be faced with stone/concrete etc ▪ It is faced with stone on the outside and red marble inside. lay bricks/carpet/concrete/cables etc ▪ Compact the base, then lay concrete, using a 1 cement to 5 parts ballast mix. ▪ During the week I found work in town painting houses, laying carpets and delivering telephone books. ▪ Trying to raise efficiency and morale without first setting this structure to rights is like trying to lay bricks without mortar. ▪ Why didn't he lay concrete you ask? EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Just tell him what you want in clear and concrete terms. ▪ No mention is made of any concrete plans to address workers' complaints. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Concrete beams and a concrete wall will tend to move as one. ▪ He fell and hit his head on the concrete floor. ▪ It was the first major concrete structure to be built in Britain since Roman times. ▪ It would, by virtue of the fact that it was scientifically detectable, be concrete. ▪ They were following the concrete channel of the serpentine rill, which emptied itself into a pool of stygian blackness. ▪ Trent dived belly flat into the protection of a bush sprouting from beside the concrete piling. ▪ With the attainment of concrete operations, the ability to reason logically about and solve conservation problems emerges. II. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS VERB build ▪ A composite building of steel plus concrete is extremely difficult to achieve in New York City. pour ▪ Thermocouples are placed in the freshly poured concrete to measure the concrete temperature. ▪ When you pour the concrete, be sure the threads are clean so nothing interferes with installing the nut. reinforced ▪ Each of the Apollo launch pads was 0.65 square kilometres in size and constructed of heavily reinforced concrete. ▪ Roebling had pioneered fireproof construction methods, especially the use of reinforced concrete. ▪ The place was losing the look of old photographs. Reinforced concrete was gaining the light. ▪ Problem: Footings under masonry walls are not reinforced concrete. ▪ Public works inspectors may specialize in highways, structural steel, reinforced concrete, or ditches. ▪ If steel and concrete were incompatible in any of these areas, reinforced concrete would sooner or later degrade. set ▪ I do not regard the United Kindom constitution as set in concrete. ▪ Until the job is actually offered and refused, however, nothing is set in concrete. ▪ To set that in concrete seems beside the point. ▪ Here, too, metal reinforcements set in the concrete have rusted because the concrete contained too much calcium chloride. ▪ The bright red benches were attached to the ground by bolts set in concrete. ▪ Then install some form of perimeter edging: path-edging stones or brick pavers, for example, set in concrete. ▪ We can not regard the present statements as necessarily being set in concrete. ▪ It was wet before harvest and then it set like concrete. use ▪ Many of New York's bridges are made using inadequately reinforced concrete. ▪ Instead, consider using interlocking concrete blocks. ▪ Storage of materials and the effort of mixing are eliminated by using ready-mixed concrete, which is available in two forms. ▪ He hopes to install an adobe-making plant at his Redford ranch, using a commercial concrete truck as his mixer. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A twenty-five-foot wave carrying huge pieces of concrete flattened schools and ripped away bridges. ▪ For instance, one person may estimate only electrical work, whereas another may concentrate on excavation, concrete, and forms. ▪ He returned to the North to work on the problems of reinforced concrete for a commercial company. ▪ She was on her knees, tights torn by rough concrete. ▪ To set that in concrete seems beside the point. III. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As far as I could see, a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted. ▪ Cutting Edges On boundaries that don't butt up to existing walls, blocks must first be concreted in position.
concrete
I. con‧crete1 /ˈkɒŋkriːt $ kɑːnˈkriːt/ adjective [date : 1300-1400; Language : Latin; Origin : concretus, past participle of concrescere 'to grow together', from com- ( ⇨ COM-) + crescere 'to grow'] 1. made of concrete: ▪ a concrete floor
2. definite and specific ⇨ abstract: ▪ What does that mean in concrete terms? ▪ the lack of any concrete evidence ▪ a dialogue about concrete issues and problems
—concretely adverb • • • COLLOCATIONS (for Meaning 2) nouns ▪concrete evidence ▪ First, the police must have concrete evidence of an offence. ▪a concrete example ▪ I can illustrate this point with a concrete example. ▪a concrete proposal ▪ People talked a lot but made few concrete proposals. ▪concrete results ▪ The negotiations failed to achieve any concrete results. ▪concrete action ▪ In order to solve this problem, the government must take concrete action. ▪(a) concrete form ▪ A society's culture is expressed in a concrete form in the arts. phrases ▪in concrete terms ▪ Let me explain what I mean in more concrete terms. ▪take concrete steps to do something ▪ The country has to take concrete steps to end the violence.
II. con‧crete2 /ˈkɒŋkriːt $ ˈkɑːŋ-/ noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
a substance used for building that is made by mixing sand, small stones, cement, and water
III. con‧crete3 /ˈkɒŋkriːt $ ˈkɑːŋ-/ verb [TRANSITIVE] to cover something such as a path, wall etc with concrete
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