concrete vs lute

concrete

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

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

  • 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. 

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

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

lute

noun
  • Thick sticky clay or cement used to close up a hole or gap, especially to make something air-tight. 

  • A straight-edged piece of wood for striking off superfluous clay from earth. 

  • A packing ring, as of rubber, for fruit jars, etc. 

  • A fretted stringed instrument of European origin, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard. 

verb
  • To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. 

  • To fix or fasten something with lute. 

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