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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a concrete image" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific, tangible representation or visualization of an idea, concept, or scene.
Example: "The author painted a concrete image of the bustling city streets, filled with vibrant colors and lively sounds."
Alternatives: "a vivid picture" or "a tangible representation".
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He starts with a concrete image and gradually transforms it into something fantastical and absurd but slyly believable.
But Moses rightly worries that Aron is too sympathetic to the craving of the Israelites for a concrete image of a god.
Then she tells them to review the problem for a few minutes before going to bed, and once in bed, visualize the problem as a concrete image, if possible.
In the case of a picture (a black and white photo of Laurence Olivier playing Hamlet, to activate a concrete image in your mind) predictive coding works by assuming that the value of each pixel is well predicted by the value of its various neighbors.
Those gifted in science can make a concrete image of what they conceive.
Occasionally, a concrete image will arrive amid the high-flown philosophizing, as in "Lazarus," where he mentions dropping his cellphone.
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The play was born from a very concrete image, which Ivo chose not to perpetuate, but which has been used in most productions: that you first see Alice under a stack of mattresses.
Whereas metonymy typically provides a genuine image for an abstraction, synecdoche is a descriptive literary term that uses part of an already concrete image to refer to said image for rhetorical purposes, such as to highlight a specific feature.
There is definitely some overlap between the two concepts, but, put the simplest way, synecdoche typically refers to an already concrete image used for purely poetic and rhetorical purposes.
The ones that worked, he said, were about the thirty-three thousand e-mails shadhad "bleached," and the phones she had destroyed, "many with a hammer": concrete images helped.
We can know its gender and genetic make-up while the medics may call it a foetus, we can see that it has human features, that it is a very small baby, and that concrete image can haunt women and make the decision to have an abortion harder than ever.
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