wet concrete

collocation in English

meaningsofwetandconcrete

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wet
adjective
uk
/wet/us
/wet/
covered in water or ...
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concrete
noun[U]
uk
/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us
/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
a very hard building material made by mixing together cement, sand, small stones, ...
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(Definition ofwetandconcretefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Rather than 'drawing a line in the sand', agist health care policies draw the line inwetconcreteand it permanently sets.
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The creatures were crowded into one outside run, sitting onwetconcrete, shivering with cold.
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Those lorries filled withwetconcretewill have two hours at the most to reach their destinations.
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Wetconcretealso applies hydrostatic pressure to formwork.
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The saturated material then begins to flow, having the consistency ofwetconcrete.
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The process involves extrudingwetconcretealong with the prestressed steel wire rope from a moving mold.
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One day, a crane operator failed to see him, swung a quarter-ton bucket ofwetconcreteinto his side, and knocked him off the dam.
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The opening titles feature a drawing of a sidewalk, viewed from above, displaying the credits inwetconcrete.
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A pair of knee boards is also a tool used by a mason to distribute body weight while kneeling onwetconcrete.
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Wetconcreteis highly alkaline and should always be handled with proper protective equipment.
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Also,wetconcreteneeds to be pumped or carried up to higher floors.
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A relativelywetconcretesample may slump as much as eight inches.
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Thiswetconcretewould be carried to the construction site where it would be packed into reusable wooden molds.
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Giant mixers providedwetconcreteto skip hoists in vertical towers that were extended as the building rose.
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Early batteries had wooden cases, and could absorb moisture fromwetconcrete, giving current a route to discharge.
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Fully pre-cast methods were used during construction, which could be 1015 per cent more expensive than the traditional way of pumpingwetconcreteall the way to the top.
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As seen in the figure, most designs consist of a standard bolt with a hexagonal head, which is cast in thewetconcretebefore it sets.
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