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concentrate
[ kon-suhn-treyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus:
to concentrate one's attention on a problem; to concentrate the rays of the sun with a lens.
Antonyms: ,
- to put or bring into a single place, group, etc.:
The nation's wealth had been concentrated in a few families.
- to intensify; make denser, stronger, or purer, especially by the removal or reduction of liquid:
to concentrate fruit juice; to concentrate a sauce by boiling it down.
- Mining. to separate (metal or ore) from rock, sand, etc., so as to improve the quality of the valuable portion.
verb (used without object)
- to bring all efforts, faculties, activities, etc., to bear on one thing or activity (often followed by on or upon ):
to concentrate on solving a problem.
Antonyms:
- to come to or toward a common center; converge; collect:
The population concentrated in one part of the city.
- to become more intense, stronger, or purer.
noun
- a concentrated form of something; a product of concentration:
a juice concentrate.
concentrate
/ ˈɒԲəˌٰɪ /
verb
- to come or cause to come to a single purpose or aim
to concentrate one's hopes on winning
- to make or become denser or purer by the removal of certain elements, esp the solvent of a solution
- tr to remove rock or sand from (an ore) to make it purer
- introften foll byon to bring one's faculties to bear (on); think intensely (about)
noun
- a concentrated material or solution
tomato concentrate
Derived Forms
- ˈDzԳˌٰٴǰ, noun
Other yvlog Forms
- Dz··ٰ·پ [kon, -s, uh, n-trey-tiv, k, uh, n-, sen, -tr, uh, -], adjective
- Dzc·ٰt·Ա noun
- Dzc·ٰtǰ noun
- ԴDz·Dzc·ٰt adjective
- non·Dzc·ٰt·Ա noun
- v·Dzc·ٰٱ verb overconcentrated overconcentrating
- ·Dzc·ٰٱ noun verb preconcentrated preconcentrating
- ·Dzc·ٰٱ verb reconcentrated reconcentrating
- ܲ·Dzc·ٰt adjective
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of concentrate1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of concentrate1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
These hits were geographically concentrated in the Rust Belt and the south.
There is the internet revolution upending business models and working patterns, inventing social media and concentrating vast wealth and influence among a clutch of global behemoths like Apple, Meta, Amazon and X.
Here, Nguyen concentrates on the lives of a Vietnamese American immigrant family.
Greenland’s social environment is also different from Denmark’s — its Indigenous population, which has its own social mores, is larger as a proportion of the population, and residents are concentrated in the giant island’s southwest.
Woad finished joint 23rd, alongside England's Georgia Hall and Charley Hull, two of her "favourite players" that she had "looked up to" since concentrating on the sport from about the age of 13.
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