asbestos vs concrete

asbestos

verb
  • To coat or line with asbestos. 

  • To insulate or buffer. 

  • To expose to asbestos; to cause to suffer asbestosis. 

noun
  • Any of several fibrous mineral forms of magnesium silicate, used for fireproofing, electrical insulation, building materials, brake linings, chemical filters, suits, fireman's gloves, etc. 

  • Any of asbestos-like forms of several minerals, asbestiforms 

concrete

verb
  • To cover with or encase in concrete (building material). 

  • To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real). 

noun
  • An extract of herbal materials that has a semi-solid consistency, especially when such materials are partly aromatic. 

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

  • Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. 

  • A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings. 

  • A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. 

adj
  • Made of concrete, a building material. 

  • Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories. 

  • Real, actual, tangible. 

  • Particular, specific, rather than general. 

  • United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid. 

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