l am perplexed by the superior importance which Dr, Pratt attributes to abstract trueness overconcrete verifiability in an idea, and I wish that he might be moved to explain.
1978, Jerry V. Diller, editor,Ancient Roots and Modern Meanings: A Contemporary Reader in Jewish Identity, New York, N.Y.:Bloch Publishing Company,→ISBN,page244:
That fact I think should be leading us to explore again what our tradition has always said, that militarization is not good for us as it is not good for the rest of humanity either, and we ought to be examining what in this generation that means in the toughest, realest,concretest form, what it means for us to be struggling toward.
Professor Peter Crome, chair of the audit's steering group, said the report "provides furtherconcrete evidence that the care of patients with dementia in hospital is in need of a radical shake-up". While a few hospitals had risen to the challenge of improving patients' experiences, many have not, he said. The report recommends that all staff receive basic dementia awareness training, and staffing levels should be maintained to help such patients.
The secretary general went on to express his concern with recent Israeli announcements to expand settlements in the occupied lands, urging them to: stop the demolitions of Palestinian homes and confiscation of Palestinian lands, address the humanitarian situation in Gaza and to takeconcrete steps to improve the daily lives of the Palestinian people. He also noted that all of these behaviours made more difficult the achievement of an Israel-Palestinian peace.
American intelligence officials have long said privately that Huawei has so-called back doors that could allow the company to obtain data that flows on the networks they build and maintain. But publicly, officials have spoken mostly about the potential that Huawei could provide Chinese officials with access to all kinds of data, without offeringconcrete proof.
Mr. Thaler challenged the decision in federal court, arguing that human authorship is not aconcrete legal requirement and allowing AI copyrights would be in line with copyright's purpose as outlined in the U.S. constitution to "promote the progress of science and useful arts."
(category theory, of acategory)Analogous to the categories ofalgebraic objects which category theory was created to generalize, in the sense of having objects which can be thought of assets equipped with some additionalstructure. Formally, equipped with afaithfulfunctor to the category of sets.
(by extension,topos theory, of acategory with respect to another category) Equipped with a faithful functor to (called abase category),in which case is called aconcrete category over.
Being or applying to actual things, rather thanabstract qualities or categories.
1725, Isaac Watts,Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth,[…], 2nd edition, London:[…] John Clark and Richard Hett,[…], Emanuel Matthews,[…], and Richard Ford,[…], published1726,→OCLC, part I (Of Perceptions and Ideas),page58:
Concrete Terms, while they expreſs the Quality, do alſo either expreſs, or imply, or refer to ſome Subject to which it belongs; aswhite,round,long,broad,wiſe,mortal,living,dead.
As expressed in the premiss, the proposition appeals directly and inconcrete language to the incapacity of the human imagination for conceiving a minimum.
He will be occupied during his whole life with a study not of ideas apart from theirconcrete embodiment, not of thingsconcrete apart from their inward significance, but with a study of expression, — expression as seen in the countenance of external nature, expression in Greek statue, mediæval cathedral, Renaissance altar-piece, expression in the ritual of various religions, and in the visible bearing of various types of manhood, in various exponents of tradition, of thought, and of faith.
The closer it comes to becomingconcrete the more abstract it seems. Things get very abstract. Theconcrete room was the sum of abstract facts. Are facts abstract, or are they just abstract representations ofconcrete things?
Bologna was a stronghold of medical teaching. The city's famous university, established in 1088, is the oldest in the world. "What they had we call scholastic medicine," Pomata told me. "When we say 'scholastic,' we mean something that is very abstract, notconcrete, not empirical."
"How did you like my reading of the character, gentlemen?" said Mr. Waldengarver, almost, if not quite, with patronage. ¶ Herbert said from behind (again poking me), "massive andconcrete." So I said boldly, as if I had originated it, and must beg to insist upon it, "massive andconcrete."
"Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for theconcrete. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
The environments that hemmed in their isolation and the other human beings threatening it were certainly set down in theconcretest detail; there is no question of their reality; yet at the center of most of Conrad's novels and stories is the solitary man fighting against what is outside him.
To German intelligence, Major —— de Coverley was a vexatious enigma; not one of the hundreds of American prisoners would ever supply anyconcrete information about the elderly white-haired officer with the gnarled and menacing brow and blazing, powerful eyes who seemed to spearhead every important advance so fearlessly and successfully.
Nothing is really permanent. But, at the same time, so many things are forever. For me, that's always been something that's hard to grasp, because I'm a veryconcrete thinker. I want to be like, 'This is how things are, and there's a reason.'
In his remarks to reporters, Mr Trudeau offered fewconcrete details but was more willing to make a connection between the downed objects. He said he would discuss the issue further with Mr Biden at a scheduled meeting in March.
Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along theconcrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
I took the stairs down to the communal area and stood resting against aconcrete pillar, watching my "brother" kick up little scraps of half-frozen turf.
The video images of him banging on theconcrete walls of his cell are wretched. The story of Ivan's plight was covered by everyone from People Magazine to the New York Times, who reported on the "sulking gorilla with matted hair" trapped in hisconcrete prison.
a.1556 (date written),Hugh Latimer,The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester.[…], volume I, London:[…] J. Scott,[…], published1758,→OCLC,pages21–22:
I cannot wholly expreſs him, I wot not what to call him, but a certain thing altogether made of the hatred of God, of miſtruſt in God, of wings, deceits, diſcord, manſlaughters, and in a word, a thingconcrete and heaped up of perjuries, and made of all kind of miſchief.
The spelling has been modernized.
1659, Robert Gell,An Essay Toward the Amendment of the Last English-Translation of the Bible[…],page765:
The reason whythis wisdom so strengthens the wise, even more then many mighty men, so thatone wise man more preserves the City thenmany strong men; it seems to be, becauseWisdom bothoriginally andformally, isconcrete withpower and might: and therefore whatsoeverstrength can do alone, that also canWisdom do & more.
In this sketch Goldsmith undoubtedly shadows forth his an noyances as travelling tutor to thisconcrete young gentleman, compounded of the pawnbroker, the pettifogger, and the West Indian heir, with an overlaying of the city miser.
Ere the white body they could reach; and stuck, as telling how / They purpos'd to have pierc'd his flesh: his peril pierced now / The eyes of prince Eurypilus, Evemon's famous son; Who came close on, and with his dart struck duke Apisaon, / Whose surname was Phausiades, even to theconcrete blood / That makes the liver: on the earth out gush'd his vital flood.
He [Thales] saw that the breeding of animals is in moisture; that the seeds and kernels of plants (as long as they are productive and fresh), are likewise soft and tender; that metals also melt and become fluid, and are as it wereconcrete juices of the earth, or rather a kind of mineral waters;[…]
1684,Thomas Burnet, chapter IV, inThe Theory Of The Earth:[…], Book I, London:[…] R. Norton, for Walter Kettilby,[…],page51:
And therefore by analogy with all other liquors and concretions, the form of the Chaos, whether liquid orconcrete, could not be the ſame with that of the preſent Earth, or like it: And conſequently, that form of the firſt or primigenial Earth which riſe immediately out of the Chaos, was not the ſame, nor like to that of the preſent Earth.
The oily baſis of this ammoniacal ſoap, ſeparated by acids, is deſcribed as aconcrete ſubſtance, of a greyiſh yellow colour, and ſomewhat more fuſible than wax; combined with fixed or volatile alkali it forms, we are told, a firm ſoap.
c.1848,J[oseph] D[alton] Hooker, “Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written during a Botanical Mission to India”, inWilliam Jackson Hooker, editor,Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, published1849,→OCLC,page42:
The natives distil a kind ofarrack from the flowers, which are also eaten raw. The seeds, too, yield aconcrete oil, by expression, used for lamps, and occasionally to fry withal.
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Smooth facets of buildings have given way to cobbly insides ofconcrete blasted apart, all the endless-pebbled rococo just behind the shuttering.
2007 August 2, Brandon Keim, quoting Hendrik Van Oss, “Space-Age Concrete the Answer for Failing Bridges?”, inWired[10], San Francisco, Calif.:Condé Nast Publications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on19 June 2021:
In the next few decades, says Van Oss, building codes will change, opening the way for innovative materials. But while newconcretes may be stronger and more durable, they are also more expensive - and whether the tendency of developers and the public to focus on short-term rather than long-term costs will also change is another matter.
(especially) Such a material whose cement isPortland cement or a similar limestone derivative.
Within hours of the deadly van attack on April 23, 2018, the city installed a series of thigh-highconcrete barriers around Union Station and other bustling spots in downtown Toronto.
1697,J[ohn] S[ergeant],Solid Philosophy Asserted Against the Fancies of the Ideists:[…], London:[…] Roger Clavil[…] Abel Roper[…] Thomas Metcalf,[…],page91:
Whence follows, that the Abſtract Terms, [Entity] or [Eſſence] do properly ſignify [A Capacity of Being.] Tho' Entity is often us'd as aConcrete for theThing it ſelf.
Conceptualization is man's method of organizing sensory material. To form a concept, one isolates two or more similarconcretes from the rest of one's perceptual field, and integrates them into a single mental unit, symbolized by a word.
However, how can such a structure ofconcretes and abstracts be made evident, which after all means that knowledge always aims at the concrete, the unprecedented, the irreducibly dissimilar, although cognition always happens in developing similarity through abstraction?
2009,Alan Musgrave, “Pleonastic Platonism”, in Heather Dyke, editor,From Truth to Reality: New Essays in Logic and Metaphysics, New York, N.Y.:Routledge,→ISBN,pages79–80:
On the right-hand sides we have sentences asserting that an equivalence relation holds betweenconcretes—that is, that they are identical in some respect.
When Nudger and Claudia were finished eating they drove to the Ted Drewes frozen custard stand on Chippewa and stood in line for a couple of chocolate chipconcretes. Drewes'sconcretes were delicious custard concoctions so thick that before the kids working behind the counter handed them to customers, they turned the cups upside down to demonstrate that the contents wouldn't pour out.
Paradoxically richer and yet lighter than ice cream, frozen custard is softly served, and at Curly's you can have your I vanilla or chocolate flavor custard "concrete" style, with your choice of a rainbow of candy and fruit toppings whipped in.
Once there, she opts for aconcrete -- Nielsen's thick, spoonable, frozen vanilla custard mixed with add-ins like Oreos or strawberries or chocolate chips and piled into a 16-ounce cup for $4.35. She can't eat it all, of course, which is why a couple of friends need to come along as well.
2023 May 11, Allie Chanthorn Reinmann, “The Difference Between Milkshakes and Concretes (and How to Make Them)”, inLifehacker[13], archived fromthe original on8 June 2023:
Aconcrete has some distinct differences from a milkshake, specifically, the custard base mixture, the final texture, and the mix-ins. Technically, the common ice cream you buy at the store and use in a regular milkshake is made from a custard base. A custard is dairy thickened with the help of heated whole eggs or egg yolks, and aconcrete uses a custard base that has a higher ratio of egg yolks in the recipe than the average ice cream.
(perfumery) Anextract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partlyaromatic.
1992, Julia Lawless,The Encyclopedia of Essential Oils: A Complete Guide to the Use of Aromatics in Aromatheraapy, Herbalism, Health & Well-Being, Shaftesbury, Dorset;[…]:Element,→ISBN,page37:
Mostconcretes contain about 50 per cent wax, 50 per cent volatile oil, such as jasmine; in rare cases, as with ylang ylang, theconcrete is liquid and contains about 80 per cent essential oil, 20 per cent wax. The advantage ofconcretes is that they are more stable and concentrated than pure essential oils.
2007, Celia Lyttelton,The Scent Trail: An Olfactory Odyssey, London[…]:Bantam Books,→ISBN,page37:
Monsieur Roca held anotherconcrete under my nose and asked if it reminded me of tea. I breathed in a refreshing green note of verbena, a smell that was so quintessentially English that I felt suddenly nostalgic. It was a daffodil scent; it symbolized spring and the hope that spring always brings. And finally he held out the mimosaconcrete for me. As I breathed in its heady aroma I forgot all about the noxious fumes I'd inhaled as I'd walked towards the Robertet factory.
2008, David G. Williams,The Chemistry of Essential Oils: An Introduction for Aromatherapists, Beauticians, Retailers and Students, second edition, Port Washington, N.Y.; Weymouth, Dorset: Micelle Press,→ISBN,page226:
Concretes, the waxy extracts produced by solvent extraction, were first introduced by the house of Roure, Bertrand Fils in Grasse, in 1873, and in 1888 Joseph Robert succeeded in developing a large-scale process for the solvent extraction of fragrant plants. This process was brought into commercial production two years later.
2013, Karen Gilbert,Perfume: The Art and Craft of Fragrance, London; New York, N.Y.: CICO Books,→ISBN,page67:
Once the material is exhausted, the solvent containing the dissolved essential oil is distilled. This process removes the solvent, leaving behind the extracted matter, which is known as aconcrete. Theconcrete is processed further to produce an absolute for use in perfumery.
Theconcrete is made by ingredients which are to remove the feculencies from the cane-juice as soon as expressed from the mill and which check fermentation; indeed juice may be kept for a week after the canes have been gruond, without turning acid, when these ingredients have been used.
1910 August 18, Edward W[iley] Duckwall, “Semi-Monthly Report of National Canners' Laboratory”, inThe Canner and Dried Fruit Packer, volume XXXI, number 6, Chicago, I.L.: The Canner Publishing Company,→ISSN,→OCLC,page24:
Also molasses in the definition refers only to the product separated from the various sugarconcretes specified in the purification of these raw sugars, while in trade terms what is defined under sugar cane syrup in the standards is often called molasses, the term "open kettle molasses" being used in this connection to indicate that the cane juice has been simply boiled down in open kettles.
1959,An Industrial Waste Guide to the Cane Sugar Industry,page 1:
In some areas of the Far East, for example, factories producing sugar concrete may process as little as one ton of sugar cane per day and a total of not over 100 tons of sugar cane per year. From this we go to the other extreme where factories in the West Indies and Mexico process as much as 20,000 tons of sugar cane per day and 2 to 3 million tons of sugar cane per year.
1975, Lendal H[enry] Kotschevar,Quantity Food Purchasing, second edition, New York, N.Y.:John Wiley & Sons,→ISBN,page352:
Maple sugar is crystallized from the concentrated sap of maple. Mapleconcrete can be purchased and water added to make maple syrup.
And firſt, if I would now deal rigidly with my Adverſary, I might here make a great Queſtion of the very way of Probation which he and others employ, without the leaſt ſcruple, to evince, that the Bodies commonly cali'd mixt, are made up of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire, which they are pleas'd alſo to call Elements; namely that upon the ſuppos'dAnalyſis made by the fire, of the former ſort ofConcretes, there are wont to emerge Bodies reſembling thoſe which they take for the Elements.
Of this kind, I ſuppoſe, theÆther, that is themedium orfluid body, in which all other bodies do as it were ſwim and move; and particularly, theAir, which ſeems nothing elſe but a kind oftincture orſolution of terreſtrial and aqueous particlesdiſſolv'd into it, and agitated by it, juſt as thetincture ofCocheneel is nothing but ſome finerdiſſoluble parts of thatConcrete lick'd up ordiſſolv'd by thefluid water.
1692 November 17,Richard Bentley,A Confutation of Atheism from the Origin and Frame of the World. Part II.[…], London:[…] H[enry] Mortlock[…], published1693,→OCLC,page11:
But if Gold it ſelf be admitted, as it muſt be, for a porousConcrete, the proportion of Void to Body in the texture of common Air will be ſo much the greater.
Some affirm it [ambergris] to be a true animalconcrete, formed in balls in the body of the male ſpermaceti whale, and lodged in a large oval bag over the testicles.
In odd moments David had made an estimate on the cost of shooting down the menace in the eastern tunnel drifting andconcreting the gash which would be left by the blasting out of the fissure material.
At first they could not remember anything out of the ordinary, and then the farmer's wife remarked that they had changed the pattern of the milking parlour byconcreting the area where the cows were waiting.
2010 August 1, Louis Sahagun, “A journey of discovery on the L.A. River”, inLos Angeles Times[14], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on8 July 2023:
Frequent catastrophic floods prompted civic leaders in the 1930s to transform the river into a flood-control channel to protect the burgeoning flatlands. Nearly the entire 51-mile river bottom wasconcreted over, except a few spots where the water table was too high.
[…] the necessity of recognizing this relation outwardly and of perfecting herself in the forms required to express the recognition, had moved her to such diligence and faithfulness in practicing these forms that this exercise soonconcreted itself into habit; it became automatic and unconscious; then a natural result followed:[…]
When any ſaline Liquor is evaporated to a Cuticle and let cool, the Saltconcretes in regular Figures; which argues, that the Particles of the Salt before theyconcreted, floated in the Liquor at equal diſtances in rank and file, and by conſequence that they acted upon one another by ſome Power which at equal diſtances is equal, at unequal diſtances unequal.
1731,John Arbuthnot,An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments, and the Choice of Them, According to the Different Constitutions of Human Bodies.[…], London:[…]J[acob] Tonson[…],→OCLC,page46:
The Blood of ſome Perſons who have dy'd of the Plague could not be made toconcrete, by reaſon of the Putrefaction already begun.
At three years old, her mother observed something come from her, as she walked across the room, which, when examined, was found to be fat in a liquid state, whichconcreted when cold.
1840,Jonathan Pereira, “Pista'cia Lentis'cus, Linn. L. E. D.—The Mastic orLentisk Tree.”, inThe Elements of Materia Medica;[…], Part II, London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longmans,page1183:
The mastic whichconcretes on the stem is calledmastic in the tear, while that which falls to the earth constitutescommon mastic.
Etymologically, the antonym ofconcrete issecrete(“exude, yield”), but the meanings of the two verbs have diverged so widely that this is scarcely noticed today.
