Concetti Chiave
- Concrete is a building material made from a mixture of cement, sand, or gravel with water, often used in constructing block houses.
- The term concrete can also describe something solid or with a strong foundation, often used figuratively to indicate reliability or factual basis.
- Tile is a flat piece made from stone, clay, or other materials, used for flooring, walls, roofs, and decorative purposes like mosaics.
- Tiles also appear in games like mahjong or word games, where they are used as pieces printed with pictures, letters, or symbols.
- The process of covering a surface with tiles is referred to as tiling, a common practice in construction and home improvement.
Concrete
The mixture of cement and sand or gravel with water is called concrete. It is used as a building material. Houses made of concrete are sometimes called block houses, since they are made of concrete block.
Ex: Even though the babysitter watched her carefully, the little girl tripped over her shoelace and fell on the concrete sidewalk, skinning her knee.
Ex: I will mix up some concrete in this bucket. Perhaps then we can try to make some type of short path between the house and the garage.
Sometimes, concrete is used figuratively, as an adjective meaning to describe something as solid or having a good foundation, as being real.
Ex: I have got to have some kind of concrete reason for asking the judge for a search warrant. I cannot simply tell him that I have a hunch that something illegal is going on.
Ex: Because he likes to deal in facts and not abstraction, some teachers refer to him as a concrete thinker.
Tile
A relatively thin and flat piece of stone, hardened clay, or other material used for flooring, walls, or roofs is tile. Tile can be used for decorative purposes as well, such as in mosaics. One can also speak of the action of tiling a floor or wall by using the word as a verb, as in to tile the floor.
Ex: I went to the DIY shop to select a tile for our building project, a screened porch. As we wanted to have an outdoor look to the area, I chose a natural terracotta tile.
Ex: The mosaics that lined the walls of the church featured small and multi¬coloured tiles that still retained their colour after several hundred years.
Some games, such as mahjong or word games, feature tiles, thin pieces of material printed with pictures, letters, or symbols. They are named after the tiling used in structures.
Ex: The game was missing so many tiles after the small children had played with it outdoors that it was no longer worth trying.
Ex: I wish I could draw more vowel tiles in this game! It is very hard to create the words I want to form without them!
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué es el concreto y para qué se utiliza?
- ¿Qué es una baldosa y cuáles son sus usos?
- ¿Cómo se utiliza el término "concreto" de manera figurada?
El concreto es una mezcla de cemento, arena o grava con agua, utilizada como material de construcción. Se emplea para construir casas, a menudo llamadas casas de bloques, y también se usa de manera figurada para describir algo sólido o con buena base.
Una baldosa es una pieza relativamente delgada y plana de piedra, arcilla endurecida u otro material, utilizada para suelos, paredes o techos. También se usa con fines decorativos, como en mosaicos, y en juegos como el mahjong.
El término "concreto" se utiliza figuradamente como adjetivo para describir algo sólido o con buena base, como una razón concreta para solicitar una orden de registro o para referirse a alguien que prefiere los hechos a las abstracciones.
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