Definitions of Concentrate [ˈkɒn sənˌtreɪt]

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Definition of 'Concentrate'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) concentrate
to bring or draw to a common center; direct toward one point; focus:
to concentrate one's attention on a problem.

2.  concentrate
to put or bring into a single place, group, etc.:
The population was concentrated in a few cities.

3.  concentrate
to intensify; make denser, stronger, or purer, esp. by the removal or reduction of liquid.

4.  concentrate
to separate (metal or ore) from rock, sand, etc., so as to improve the quality of the valuable portion.

5. (v.i.) concentrate
to bring all efforts, faculties, etc., to bear on one objective (often fol. by on or upon):
to concentrate on solving a problem.

6.  concentrate
to come to or toward a common center; converge; collect.

7.  concentrate
to become more intense, stronger, or purer.

8. (n.) concentrate
a concentrated form of something:
a juice concentrate.

Etymology: (1630–40; concentr (ic ) + -ate²; cf. F concentrer, It concentrare)

Definition of 'Concentrate'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) dressed ore, concentrate
the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore

2. (noun) concentrate
a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water

3. (verb) concentrate
a concentrated example of something
"the concentrate of contemporary despair"

4. (verb) concentrate
make denser, stronger, or purer
"concentrate juice"

5. (verb) concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet
direct one's attention on something
"Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"

6. (verb) centralize, centralise, concentrate
make central
"The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"

7. (verb) digest, condense, concentrate
make more concise
"condense the contents of a book into a summary"

8. (verb) concentrate
draw together or meet in one common center
"These groups concentrate in the inner cities"

9. (verb) condense, concentrate, contract
compress or concentrate
"Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"

10. (verb) boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate
be cooked until very little liquid is left
"The sauce should reduce to one cup"

11. (verb) reduce, boil down, concentrate
cook until very little liquid is left
"The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"

Definition of 'Concentrate'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) concentrate
to focus attention
Be quiet - I need to concentrate.; to concentrate on the project; They concentrated their efforts on winning.

2. concentrate
be concentrated
happening or focused in one place
Population growth is concentrated in developing nations.

Definition of 'Concentrate'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) Concentrate
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

2. (verb) Concentrate
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

3. (verb) Concentrate
to approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities

Translation of 'Concentrate'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to give all one's energies, attention etc to one thing I wish you'd concentrate (on what I'm saying).
Afrikaans: konsentreer, saamtrek	Arabic: يُركِّـز	Bulgarian: съсредоточавам се
Brazilian: concentrar-se	Czech: soustředit se	German: konzentrieren
Danish: koncentrere sig	Greek: συγκεντρώνομαι	Spanish: concentrarse
Estonian: keskenduma	Farsi: تمرکز کردن؛ متمرکز شدن	Finnish: keskittyä
French: se concentrer	Hebrew: לְהִתרַכֵּז	Hindi: केन्द्रीकरण करना
Croatian: usredotočiti se, koncentr	Hungarian: koncentrál	Indonesian: memusatkan perhatian
Icelandic: einbeita sér	Italian: concentrarsi	Japanese: 集中する
Korean: 집중하다	Lithuanian: su(si)kaupti, su(si)konce	Latvian: koncentrēt; koncentrēties
Malay: menumpukan perhatian	Dutch: zich concentreren	Norwegian: konsentrere seg, samle se
Polish: skupiać się	Persian: تمرکز کردن؛ متمرکز شدن	Pashto: متمركزكول، را غونډول، په
Portuguese: concentrar-se	Romanian: a se concentra	Russian: сосредоточиваться
Slovak: sústrediť sa	Slovenian: osredotočiti se	Serbian: koncentrisati
Swedish: koncentrera sig	Thai: มุ่งไปที่	Turkish: dikkatini ...-de toplamak
Taiwanese: 集中注意力	Ukrainian: зосереджуватися	Urdu: توجہات مرکوز کرنا
Vietnamese: tập trung	Chinese: 集中，专心
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