concretenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/B2 a very hard building material made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, and water:
reinforced concrete
a concrete floor/path
a grey concrete building
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- The bomb shelter has concrete walls that are three metres thick.
- The foundation of the house is built from rubble overlaid with concrete.
- A row of reinforced concrete pillars supports the bridge.
- Weeds were pushing up through the cracks in the concrete.
- Don't walk on the concrete until it has set.
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Building materials
- adobe
- airbrick
- asbestos
- asphalt
- bitumen
- boarding
- flitch
- floorboard
- flooring
- hard core
- hardboard
- lacquer
- limestone
- razor wire
- reinforced concrete
- roofing
- rubble
- screed
- shingle
- siding
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concreteverb [ T ]
uk/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/UKto cover something in concrete:
Why did you concrete over that nice garden?
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Covering and adding layers
- asphalt
- bestrew
- binder
- blanket
- blindfold
- carpet
- coat
- film
- film over
- fur
- gild
- gum sth up
- inlay
- lag
- pad
- proof
- resurface
- seal
- swathe
- whitewash
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concreteadjective
uk/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/C1 clear and certain, or real and existing in a form that can be seen or felt:
They think she killed her husband, but they have no concrete evidence.
We have a general idea of what we want, but nothing concrete at the moment.
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- It is sometimes easier to illustrate an abstract concept by analogy with something concrete.
- He drew attention to the absence of concrete evidence against the defendant.
- I have a suspicion that he's having an affair, though I don't have any concrete proof.
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Certainty
- (as) clear as day idiom
- (as) sure as eggs is eggs idiom
- and that's flat! idiom
- assured
- assuredly
- bet
- cut and dried
- decided
- decidedly
- definite
- definitely
- doubt
- indeed
- natch
- pronounced
- proof positive
- seal
- set/put the seal on sth idiom
- shadow
- signed and sealed idiom
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