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Concrete Substance Building Made Mixing Cement Sand Small

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C_______ is a substance used for building which is made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water.Concrete is a substance used for building which is made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water.
The posts have to be set in concrete.
They had lain on sleeping bags on the concrete floor.
...concrete barriers.
word concrete
full-definition
noun
Concrete is a substance used for building which is made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water.
The posts have to be set in concrete.
They had lain on sleeping bags on the concrete floor.
...concrete barriers.
verb
When you concrete something such as a path, you cover it with concrete.
He merely cleared and concreted the floors.
adjective
You use concrete to indicate that something is definite and specific.
He had no concrete evidence.
There were no concrete proposals on the table.
I must have something to tell him. Something concrete.
...by way of making their point more concretely.
A concrete object is a real, physical object.
...using concrete objects to teach addition and subtraction.
A concrete noun is a noun that refers to a physical object rather than to a quality or idea .
inflections concretesconcretingconcretedconcretely
cefr-level B2

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