concentrate

From French concentrer.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/

concentrate (third-person singular simple present concentrates, present participle concentrating, simple past and past participle concentrated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

   to concentrate rays of light into a focus

   to concentrate the attention

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.

   Antonym: dilute

   to concentrate acid by evaporation

   to concentrate by washing

3. To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

   Population tends to concentrate in cities.

   • 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion‎:

     Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.

4. (intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).

   Let me concentrate!

• concentrated

concentrate (plural concentrates)

1. A substance that is in a condensed form.

• concertante

concentrate f pl

1. Feminine plural of adjective concentrato.

concentrate

1. second-person plural present of concentrare
2. second-person plural imperative of concentrare
3. feminine plural past participle of concentrare

• concertante, concretante

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /konθenˈtɾate/, [kõn̟θẽn̪ˈt̪ɾat̪e]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /konsenˈtɾate/, [kõnsẽn̪ˈt̪ɾat̪e]

concentrate

1. Compound of the informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of concentrar, concentrá and the pronoun te.