bê-tông

bê-tông

Công nhân đang đổ bê-tông cho nền nhà mới.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • Concrete: A heavy, durable building material made from a mixture of cement, sand, gravel or crushed stone, and water, which hardens into a stone-like mass. It is used for foundations, pavements, walls, and other structural elements.
Usage Examples
  • Noun:
    • Công nhân đang đổ -tông cho nền nhà mới. (Workers are pouring concrete for the new house's floor.)
    • Tòa nhà này được xây bằng -tông cốt thép rất kiên cố. (This building is constructed with reinforced concrete, making it very solid.)
    • Bức tường -tông quá dày để xuyên thủng. (The concrete wall is too thick to penetrate.)
Advanced Usage
  • "-tông cốt thép" or "-tông cốt sắt": Reinforced concrete. This is concrete embedded with steel bars (rebar) or mesh to increase its tensile strength.

    • Cầu mới được thiết kế bằng -tông cốt thép. (The new bridge is designed with reinforced concrete.)
  • "-tông hóa": To concretize (literally); often used metaphorically to mean making something fixed, rigid, or permanent.

    • Không nên -tông hóa các quy tắc; chúng cần linh hoạt. (We shouldn't concretize the rules; they need to be flexible.)
Variants and Related Words
  • tông tươi (n): Ready-mix concrete, concrete delivered to a construction site in a plastic, unhardened state.

    • Công trường sử dụng tông tươi để đảm bảo chất lượng. (The construction site uses ready-mix concrete to ensure quality.)
  • tông nhựa (n): Asphalt concrete (or simply "asphalt"), a composite material used for road surfaces.

    • Đường cao tốc được trải một lớp tông nhựa. (The highway is paved with a layer of asphalt.)
Synonyms
  • Concrete: The direct and most common equivalent.
  • Cement (Note: This is a common mistranslation. "Cement" () is the powder binder used to make concrete).
Related Idioms and Common Phrases
  • Cứng như -tông: As hard as concrete; used to describe something extremely hard or rigid, or a person who is very stubborn.

    • Ý kiến của ông ấy cứng như -tông, không ai thay đổi được. (His opinion is as hard as concrete; no one can change it.)
  • Đầu -tông: A "concrete head"; a colloquial and mildly insulting term for someone who is very stubborn or slow to understand.

    • Đừng giải thích với , cái đầu -tông. (Don't bother explaining to him; he has a concrete head.)