concentrate
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (8)concentrated, concentrating
- make denser, stronger, or purer“concentrate juice”More general change state, turn
- direct one's attention on something“Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies”Synonyms: focuscentercentreporerivetMore general think, cogitateMore specific listen, steep, think, recall, zoom inSimilar rivet
- make central“The Russian government centralized the distribution of food”Synonyms: centralizecentraliseOpposite decentraliseMore general change, alter
- make more concise“condense the contents of a book into a summary”Synonyms: digestcondenseMore general abridge, foreshortenMore specific encapsulate, telescope
- draw together or meet in one common center“These groups concentrate in the inner cities”More general converge
- compress or concentrate“Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan”Synonyms: condensecontractMore general change, alterSimilar condense
- be cooked until very little liquid is left“The sauce should reduce to one cup”Synonyms: boil downreducedecoct
- cook until very little liquid is left“The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time”Synonyms: reduceboil down
Noun (3)
- the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined oreSynonyms: dressed oreType of ore
- a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing waterType of foodstuff, food productKinds frozen orange juice, evaporated milk, tomato concentrate
- a concentrated example of something“the concentrate of contemporary despair”Type of prototype, paradigm
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Translations
Verb focus one's thought or attention
- Spanish
- concentrarse
- French
- se concentrer
- Italian
- concentrarsi
- Turkish
- konsantre olmak
- Russian
- концентри́роваться koncentrírovatʹsja
- Arabic
- رَكَّزَ rakkaza
- Chinese
- 集中 jízhōng
- Dutch
- concentreren
- Korean
- 집중하다 jipjunghada
- Indonesian
- fokus
6 more languages
- Vietnamese
- tập trung
- Hungarian
- összpontosít
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 集中 jízhōng
- Estonian
- keskenduma
- Finnish
- keskittyä
- Hebrew
- הִתְרַכֵּז hitrakéz
Verb bring to, or direct toward, a common center
- Spanish
- concentrar
- French
- concentrer
- German
- konzentrieren
- Italian
- concentrare
- Portuguese
- concentrar
- Russian
- концентри́ровать koncentrírovatʹ
- Arabic
- رَكَّزَ rakkaza
- Chinese
- 集中 jízhōng
- Dutch
- concentreren
- Polish
- skupić
9 more languages
- Swedish
- koncentrera
- Vietnamese
- tập trung
- Portuguese (PT)
- concentrar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 集中 jízhōng
- Catalan
- concentrar
- Czech
- soustředit
- Esperanto
- koncentri
- Finnish
- keskittyä
- Yiddish
- קאָנצענטרירן kontsentrirn
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: Pref. con- + L. centrum center. Cf. Concenter.
1. To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
(He) concentrated whole force at his own camp.— John Lothrop Motley
2. To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; — opposed to dilute.
Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength.— John Arbuthnot
Synonyms: To combine; to condense; to consolidate.
To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54