different between concrete vs apparent

English

Etymology

From Latin concr?tus, past participle of concresc? (com- + cresc?).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?nk?i?t/, /k?n?k?i?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?n?k?i?t/, /?k?nk?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Adjective

concrete (comparative more concrete, superlative most concrete)

1. Real, actual, tangible.

   Fuzzy videotapes and distorted sound recordings are not concrete evidence that bigfoot exists.

   Once arrested, I realized that handcuffs are concrete, even if my concept of what is legal wasn’t.
2. Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories.

   • The names of individuals are concrete, those of classes abstract.

   • 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick, or The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry After Truth With a Variety of Rules to Guard

     Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also express, or imply, or refer to, some subject to which it belongs.

3. Particular, specific, rather than general.

   While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help.

   concrete ideas

4. United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid.
   • 1684, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the same figure as the last liquid state.

5. (modifying a noun, not comparable) Made of concrete, a building material.

   The office building had concrete flower boxes out front.

Synonyms

• (perceivable): tangible
• (not abstract): tangible
• (particular, specific): See also Thesaurus:specific

Antonyms

• (perceivable): intangible
• (not abstract): intangible, abstract
• (particular, specific): See also Thesaurus:generic
• (united): discrete

Translations

Noun

concrete (countable and uncountable, plural concretes)

1. (obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion.
   • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, page 26:

     "...upon the suppos’d Analysis made by the fire, of the former sort of Concretes, there are wont to emerge Bodies resembling those which they take for the Elements...

   • 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia:

     [T]he tincture of Cocheneel is nothing but some finer dissoluble parts of that Concrete lick'd up or dissolv'd by the fluid water.

2. Specifically, a building material created by mixing cement, water, and aggregate such as gravel and sand.

   The road was made of concrete that had been poured in large slabs.

3. (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term.
   • 1843, John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic

     The concretes "father" and "son" have, or might have, the abstracts "paternity" and "filiety".

4. Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass.
5. (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings.
   • 2010, June Naylor, Judy Wiley, Insiders' Guide to Dallas and Fort Worth, page 54:

     Besides cones, Curley's serves sundaes, and concretes—custard with all sorts of yummy goodness blended in, like pecans, caramel, almonds, […]

   • 1990, John Lutz, Diamond Eyes, page 170:

     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 chip concretes.

7. (chemistry) An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic.

Translations

See also

• cement
• mortar
• UHPC

Verb

concrete (third-person singular simple present concretes, present participle concreting, simple past and past participle concreted)

1. (usually transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material).
   • 2005, The Contractor's Guide to Quality Concrete Construction (?ISBN), page 95:

     CHAPTER 9: PREPARING FOR CONCRETING

   • 2008, David Squire et al, The First-Time Garden Specialist (?ISBN), page 12:

     Harmonizing the garden's style with the house is important, especially when considering the front garden. Too often, when moving into a new property, the car takes priority and concreting the area appears to be an imperative[.]

   • 2012, Formwork for Concrete Structures (?ISBN), page 417:

     The materials used for concreting should be stored properly[.]

2. (usually transitive) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real).
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body.
   • 1730, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Nature of Aliments

     The blood of some who died of the plague could not be made to concrete.

   • 1845, The London Lancet:

     At three years 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, which concreted when cold.

Usage notes

Etymologically, the antonym of concrete (verb) is secrete, but the two words have so far gone their different ways that this is scarcely noticed today.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• cocenter

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

concrete

1. Inflected form of concreet

Anagrams

• concreet

Italian

Adjective

concrete

1. feminine plural of concreto

Latin

Participle

concr?te

1. vocative masculine singular of concr?tus

Spanish

Verb

concrete

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of concretar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of concretar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of concretar.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French apparent, Old French aparant, in turn from Latin apparens ?-entis, present participle of appareo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??pæ.??nt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??pæ.??nt/, /??p?.??nt/

Adjective

apparent (comparative more apparent, superlative most apparent)

1. Capable of being seen, or easily seen; open to view; visible to the eye, eyely; within sight or view.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV,

     […] Hesperus, that led / The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, / Rising in clouded majesty, at length / Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, / And o’er the dark her silver mantle threw.

2. Clear or manifest to the understanding; plain; evident; obvious; known; palpable; indubitable.
   • c. 1595–6, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act IV, Scene 2,

     Salisbury: It is apparent foul-play; and ’tis shame / That greatness should so grossly offer it: / So thrive it in your game! and so, farewell.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula Chapter 20

     When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his left side in a glittering pool of blood. When I went to move him, it became at once apparent that he had received some terrible injuries.

3. Appearing to the eye or mind (distinguished from, but not necessarily opposed to, true or real); seeming.
   • 1785, Thomas Reid, Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Essay II (“Of the Powers we have by means of our External Senses”), Chapter XIX (“Of Matter and of Space”),

     What George Berkeley calls visible magnitude was by astronomers called apparent magnitude.

   • 1848, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second,

     To live on terms of civility, and even of apparent friendship.

   • 1911, Encyclopædia Britannica, “Aberration”,

     This apparent motion is due to the finite velocity of light, and the progressive motion of the observer with the earth, as it performs its yearly course about the sun.

Usage notes

• The word apparent has two common uses that are almost in opposition. One means roughly “clear; clearly true”, and serves to make a statement more decisive:

  It was apparent that no one knew the answer. (=No one knew the answer, and it showed.)

• The other is roughly “seeming; to all appearances”, and serves to make a statement less decisive:

  The apparent source of the hubbub was a stray kitten. (=There was a stray kitten, and it seemed to be the source of the hubbub.)

• The same ambivalence occurs with the derived adverb apparently, which usually means “seemingly” but can also mean “clearly”, especially when it is modified by another adverb, such as quite.

Synonyms

• (easy to see): visible, conspicuous, distinct, plain, obvious, clear
• (easy to understand): distinct, plain, obvious, clear, certain, evident, manifest, indubitable, notorious, transparent
• (seeming to be the case): illusory, superficial

Antonyms

• (within sight or view): hidden, invisible
• (clear to the understanding): ambiguous, obscure

Derived terms

• apparency
• apparent horizon
• apparent time
• apparently
• apparentness
• heir apparent

Related terms

• apparition
• appear
• appearance

Translations

References

• apparent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• trappean

French

Etymology

From Old French aparent, aparant, borrowed from Latin apparens, apparentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pa.???/

Adjective

apparent (feminine singular apparente, masculine plural apparents, feminine plural apparentes)

1. apparent (all senses)

Derived terms

• héritier apparent

Related terms

• apparemment
• apparence
• apparaître
• apparoir

Further reading

• “apparent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

apparent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of app?re?
2. third-person plural present active subjunctive of appar?