The phrase "a concrete item" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific, tangible object or thing, often in contrast to abstract concepts.
Example: "In our discussion about project materials, we need to focus on a concrete item that can be easily measured and evaluated."
Alternatives: "a tangible object" or "a specific item".
What is needed to render DDS coherent is a particular version of constituent ontology according to which a thing's nature is a unitary concrete item and a constituent of it.
No. 11 on their list, "to make the workplace responsive to an individual's wants, needs and talents," is the most concrete item, likeliest to win a consensus of support.
The construction process of the concrete item formulations to integrate the referred subconstructs addressed a central shortcoming of some of the existing inventories: the lack of clarity concerning the targeted subconstructs (e.g. mixed contents) and/or the inappropriateness of the formulations for self-assessment in adolescents (e.g. too complicated).
Montet-Guerin, who had since put the ring in safekeeping, said, "It's the last concrete item we have from the expedition".
Examples for concrete item types are described in Design of domain-specific items section.
At the other end of the spectrum, however, some novices exclusively identified literal or concrete item features (categories such as flying vs. nonflying, plants vs. animals, behavioral traits vs. physical traits) and employed teleological and intentional models characteristic of young children (see below).
On the other hand, functional limitations based on a number of concrete items are more likely to be a more robust measure than, for example, a single question on self-rated health.
In place of an appetite question, more concrete items about changes in food eaten regardless of food availability may be more effective, e.g. "Have you been eating less food than usual over the past week even when food was available?" or "Have family members said that you are not eating enough food?" Alternatively, these items could be dropped from the DSRS.
"We are not talking about a mass restitution here; just the return of concrete items," he said.
Words that have a richer set of concepts and associations such as concrete items will evoke enhanced episodic encoding [ 42] while activation of abstract words will be less strong as they have weaker associations with specific episodic memories.
Lumber milling and the making of bricks and reinforced concrete items also are well developed.
