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   Con·cen·trate

   /ˈkänsənˌtrāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity: "she couldn't concentrate on the movie" Similar focusdirectcentercentralizebring to bearhome in onzero in onfocus one's attention onfocus onpay attention tokeep one's mind onapply oneself toaddress oneself todevote oneself toget down toput one's mind tobe absorbed inbe engrossed inbe immersed inthink about closelyconsider closelyrack one's brains about/overcudgel one's brains about/overinformal:get stuck intoOpposite dissipatedaydreamlet one's mind wander
   • ▪ do or deal with (one particular thing) above all others: "Luke wants to concentrate on his film career"
   • 2. gather (people or things) together in numbers or in a mass: "wealth was concentrated in the hands of the governing elite"
   • ▪ come together in numbers or in a mass: "troops were concentrating at the western front" Similar collectgathercongregatedraw togetherconvergemassclusterrallyaccumulateamassrare:concenterOpposite disperse
   • 3. increase the strength or proportion of (a substance or solution) by removing or reducing the water or any other diluting agent or by selective accumulation of atoms or molecules: "plants and microorganisms can concentrate metals from the environment" Similar condenseboil downreducedistillthickencompressstrengthenOpposite dilute

   noun

   • 1. a substance made by removing water or other diluting agent; a concentrated form of something, especially food: "apple juice concentrate"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (in the sense ‘bring towards a center’): Latinized form of concenter, or from French concentrer ‘to concentrate’. concentrate (sense 1 of the verb) dates from the early 20th century.

   Derivatives

   • 1. concentrative adjective
   • 2. concentrator noun

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   What does concentrated mean?

   • , con·cen·trat·ed, con·cen·trat·ing. to concentrate on solving a problem. The population concentrated in one part of the city. to become more intense, stronger, or purer. a juice concentrate. See contract. So it recruited a professional to market the frozen orange juice concentrate.

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   What is concentrate verb?

   • Definition of concentrate verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [intransitive, transitive] to give all your attention to something and not think about anything else I can't concentrate with all that noise going on. concentrate on something I struggled to concentrate on my job because I was worried about my son.

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   What does concentrating a thing mean?

   • [transitive] concentrate something + adv./prep. to bring something together in one place Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite. We need to concentrate resources on the most run-down areas. Fighting was concentrated around the towns to the north. Never concentrate the heat in one place for too long.

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   verb (used with object) , con·cen·trat·ed, con·cen·trat·ing. 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: disperse, dissipate.

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   Concentrate means to make something stronger, denser, or more focused. If you concentrate your energy, for example, you become more powerful! Concentrate your efforts at digging, and you'll plant that shrub a lot faster.

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