concreting
USkon-KREET-ing/ˌkɑnˈkɹiːtɪŋ/UKKON-kreet-ing/ˈkɒnkɹiːtɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of concrete.
Heavy rain delayed the crew from concreting the foundation.
They spent the morning concreting the new section of sidewalk.
Note
On a building site the -ing form often works as a noun for the job itself: in Railway Magazine (1954), "excavation and concreting … was carried out in sections," where it names one stage of the work beside excavation. As a verb it usually takes an object (concreting a foundation, a path), though it can also mean making an idea real, and an archaic intransitive use meant coalescing into a solid mass.
concreting is a form of concrete
concrete, verb: To cover or encase something in concrete, the building material. Full entry
- Spelling
- concrete → concreting: drop the e, add -ing
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