Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make real or specific.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make specific; give definiteness to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To make
substantial ,real , ortangible ; to represent orembody aconcept through aparticular instance orexample .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make something concrete
- verb become specific
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Examples
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There are those who, for a variety of reasons, will concretize these visions and insist that these images are literally true, but the initial vision that brought these visions to us, whether Zeus, a man/elephant, or a pair of snakes, are not descriptions of actual people of objects, but are mystical poetry that contain a truth.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Rabbi Who Believes In Zeus: Why All Intuitions Of God Are Incomplete Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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Justice is a value that often lies behind law which attempt to express and concretize that value across society.
Rabbi Lawrence Troster: Justice Not Triage: The Year Of The Protester Rabbi Lawrence Troster 2011
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Basically, what CIP Summer School has done for me is to concretize the fact that our lives are knit up together, our futures are inseparable.
Kelly Figueroa-Ray: On The Cutting Edge Of Interfaith Work: An Open Thank You Letter To The Sultan Of Oman Kelly Figueroa-Ray 2011
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There are those who, for a variety of reasons, will concretize these visions and insist that these images are literally true, but the initial vision that brought these visions to us, whether Zeus, a man/elephant, or a pair of snakes, are not descriptions of actual people of objects, but are mystical poetry that contain a truth.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Rabbi Who Believes In Zeus: Why All Intuitions Of God Are Incomplete Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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There are those who, for a variety of reasons, will concretize these visions and insist that these images are literally true, but the initial vision that brought these visions to us, whether Zeus, a man/elephant, or a pair of snakes, are not descriptions of actual people of objects, but are mystical poetry that contain a truth.
Rabbi Alan Lurie: The Rabbi Who Believes In Zeus: Why All Intuitions Of God Are Incomplete Rabbi Alan Lurie 2011
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Too large a topic to explore in detail here, I want to conclude by suggesting how two ramifications of her parents 'promotion of reason as the path to perfectibility through their creative writings helps to concretize Shelley's origins and legacy as author of
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I think it's going to concretize more seductively the things that we can imagine.
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I'm much more likely to begin with a scene, an image, which I then have to work at to concretize in the reader's imagination.
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Changing our mental labels to "someone trying to help" and "people in need" is also helpful so long as we do not concretize the two.
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My own belief is that even if such things have little intrinsic significance, they (so to speak) concretize other, larger matters that may be lurking unexpressed beneath the surface of collective awareness.
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"Concretize the popular opinion in a couple charged terms -- "magic man," "kingmaker" -- then throw in a condescending generalization -- "of course" -- as you negate their energy with a dismissal."
May 28, 2022