| specific |
| 1. adj. explicit or definite | |
| 2. adj. (sciences) Pertaining to a species. | |
| 3. adj. (taxonomy) pertaining to a taxon at the rank of species | |
| 4. adj. special, distinctive or unique | |
| 5. adj. intended for, or applying to a particular thing | |
| 6. adj. being a remedy for a particular disease | |
| Quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. | |
| 7. adj. (immunology) limited to a particular antibody or antigen | |
| 8. adj. (physics) of a value divided by mass (e.g. specific orbital energy) | |
| 9. adj. (physics) similarly referring to a value divided by any measure which acts to standardize it (e.g. thrust specific fuel consumption, referring to fuel consumption divided by thrust) | |
| 10. adj. (physics) a measure compared with a standard reference value by division, to produce a ratio without unit or dimension (e.g. specific refractive index is a pure number, and is relative to that of air) | |
| 11. n. A distinguishing attribute or quality. | |
| 12. n. A remedy for a specific disease or condition. | |
| 13. n. Specification | |
| 14. n. (in the plural) The details; particulars. | |
| discrete |
| 1. adj. Separate; distinct; individual; non-continuous. | |
| a government with three discrete divisions | |
| 2. adj. That can be perceived individually and not as connected to, or part of something else. | |
| 3. adj. (electrical engineering) Having separate electronic components, such as individual resistors and inductors — the opposite of integrated circuitry. | |
| 4. adj. (audio engineering) Having separate and independent channels of audio, as opposed to multiplexed stereo or quadraphonic, or other multi-channel sound. | |
| 5. adj. (topology) Having each singleton subset open: said of a topological space or a topology. | |
| 6. adj. disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause | |
| "I resign my life, but not my honour" is a discrete proposition. | |
| concrete |
| 1. adj. 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. adj. Being or applying to actual things, not abstract qualities or categories. | |
| 3. adj. Particular, specific, rather than general. | |
| While everyone else offered thoughts and prayers, she made a concrete proposal to help. concrete ideas | |
| 4. adj. United by coalescence of separate particles, or liquid, into one mass or solid. | |
| 5. adj. (modifying a noun, not comparable) Made of concrete, a building material. | |
| The office building had concrete flower boxes out front. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A solid mass formed by the coalescence of separate particles; a compound substance, a concretion. | |
| 7. n. 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. | |
| 8. n. (logic) A term designating both a quality and the subject in which it exists; a concrete term. | |
| 9. n. Sugar boiled down from cane juice to a solid mass. | |
| 10. n. (US) A dessert of frozen custard with various toppings. | |
| 11. v. (usually transitive) To cover with or encase in concrete (building material). | |
| I hate grass, so I concreted over my lawn. | |
| 12. v. (usually transitive) To solidify: to change from being abstract to being concrete (actual, real). | |
| 13. v. (intransitive, obsolete) To unite or coalesce into a mass or a solid body. | |
