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Definition: CONCENTRATING |
CONCENTRATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Concentrate |
Date "CONCENTRATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, well I'm having a hard time concentrating. Can you do something about it (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook) Ha ha. Yes, yes we do the concentrating and the Poles do the camping (To Be or Not to Be; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Edwin Justus Mayer) Yes, they're concentrating all their attention on Metaluna (This Island Earth; writing credit: Raymond F. Jones; Franklin Coen) | |
Lyrics | Yes, I am concentrating (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue) You're not concentrating (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | "Volunteer Reid Center concentrating on assembling a bird box". Credit: Saundra Miles. |  | Caption: Hill near Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania, Selected by Edison as Site of Iron Mine and Ore Concentrating Plant in 1889; Bechtelsville, Pa; december, 1968; {26.110/14} (jpg). |
 | Caption: Corliss Engine Used to Power Giant Rolls at the Concentrating Works; Ogdensburg, NJ; 1895; {26.111/4} (jpg). |  | Caption: New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Boarding House and Office Building; Ogdensburg, NJ; Unknown Date; {26.111/55} (jpg). |
 | Production. Tungsten. A train of mine cars carrying tungsten ore from mines near Kingman, Arizona, to a concentrating plant in the same area. The Boriana mine and plant at this point are producing large amounts of tungsten, for which there are many vital. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Concentrating plant and mine at Babbitt, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Part of concentrating plant at iron mine. Babbitt, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Morenci, Arizona. Copper concentrating plant of the Phelps Dodge mining corporation where copper ore is processed. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Kingman (vicinity), Arizona. An interior view of a concentrating plant where tungsten ore is crushed. The ore comes from the Boriana mine. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Panoramic view of lead and zinc mining and concentrating plants near Miami, Oklahoma. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Hallview 2" by Slivester Chua Commentary: "Several photos taken during the resting period of around 20 mins. All lights off and concentrating on the only window that is providing sunlight." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Most cold researchers are concentrating on other approaches to combatting cold viruses. (references) | |
Your hands or feet may swell or feel numb. You may get drowsy or have trouble concentrating. (references) | ||
Insomnia may cause problems during the day, such as tiredness, a lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, and irritability. (references) | ||
Business | Realizing the potential in the home market, HCL has started concentrating more in this product group. (references) | |
The UK market for automotive security products is relatively focussed with individual companies concentrating on their respective spheres of expertise. (references) | ||
More recently, smaller U.S. firms have established themselves in the market, servicing either a niche market, or concentrating on one or two industry sectors. (references) | ||
Economic History | Austria | Even when concentrating on importers of U.S. products, there is no uniform structure. (references) |
Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka has a small emerging software development industry concentrating on exports. (references) | |
Pakistan | Most of the franchise operations are concentrating their activities around Karachi and Lahore. (references) | |
Political Economy | Bahrain | Possessing limited oil and gas reserves, the Government is working to diversify its economic base, concentrating on light manufacturing and the service sectors. (references) |
Vietnam | It also maintains a system of household registration and block wardens to monitor the population, concentrating on those suspected of engaging, or being likely to engage in, unauthorized political activities. (references) | |
Hungary | In general, all the major Hungarian political parties are concentrating on election issues because polls indicate that the major parties are running neck-to-neck in their bids to become part of a governing coalition in spring of 2002. This election has the distinction that one of the major political parties will have the opportunity to have a second term as governing party. (references) | |
Trade | Kazakhstan | The volume of lending is low, with Kazakhstani banks concentrating on currency speculation and short-term trade finance. (references) |
Australia | The Darwin TDZ is concentrating on developing Australia's trading relationships with its Asian neighbors to the north and west. (references) | |
Vietnam | The Asian Development Bank (ADB) provides development funding for investment projects concentrating in power, transportation, fishing, agriculture and the environment. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We have made the system more efficient and have therefore treated more veterans than ever before by concentrating on out-patient care and through modern management improvements. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "CONCENTRATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.72% of the time. "CONCENTRATING" is used about 1,089 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.72% | 1,086 | 6,941 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,089 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "CONCENTRATING": concentrating collector ♦ Kidney Concentrating Ability ♦ melanin concentrating hormone. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "CONCENTRATING": concentrating-so-hard. | |
Ending with "CONCENTRATING": over-concentrating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
concentrating | 5 |
difficulty concentrating | 4 |
concentrating decision difficulty making | 4 |
trouble concentrating | 3 |
concentrating difficulty making | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CONCENTRATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 专注 (Concentrated). (various references) | |
Danish | solkoncentrator (concentrating mirror, concentrator, solar concentrator), koncentrering ved filtrering (concentrating by filtration), koncentrerende solfanger (concentrating collector, concentrating mirror, focusing collector, solar concentrator), fokuserende spole (concentrating coil), fokuserende solfanger (concentrating collector, concentrating mirror, focusing collector, solar concentrator). (various references) | |
Dutch | concentrerende collector (concentrating collector), concentrator (concentrating mirror, concentration stage, concentrator, data circuit concentrator, data concentrator, solar concentrator, telegraphic concentrator), concentratiespoel (concentrating coil), concentratiecollector (concentrating collector), concentratie door filtratie (concentrating by filtration), zonneconcentrator (concentrating collector, concentrator, solar concentrator), kollektor met koncentratie (concentrating collector, focusing collector). (various references) | |
Finnish | rikastuslaitos (concentrating plant), keskittävä kerääjä (concentrating collector). (various references) | |
French | concentrant. (various references) | |
German | konzentrierend. (various references) | |
Greek | συγκεντρωτικόσ (concentrated). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kaszkád sűrítőtelep (cascade concentrating plant). (various references) | |
Italian | concentrazione mediante filtrazione (concentrating by filtration), concentratore solare (concentrating mirror, concentrator, solar concentrator), collettore di focalizzazione (concentrating collector), collettore concentratore (concentrating collector, focusing collector), collettore a focalizzazione (concentrating collector, focusing collector), collettore a concentrazione (concentrating collector, focusing collector), tavola concentratrice (concentrating percussion table), tavola a scosse (concentrating percussion table), specchio concentratore (concentrating mirror, solar concentrator), sistema termico a concentrazione solare (solar thermal concentrating system), sistema di concentrazione (concentrating system). (various references) | |
Korean | 집중 (Convergence, Convergency, intensive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oncentratingcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | concentração por filtração (concentrating by filtration), colector solar concentrador (concentrating collector), colector concentrador (concentrating collector). (various references) | |
Spanish | concentración por filtración (concentrating by filtration), colector concentrador (concentrating collector), sistema de concentración (concentrating system), bobina de focalización (concentrating coil). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppsamlingsspole (concentrating coil), koncentrerande solfångare (concentrating collector). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CONCENTRATING": deconcentrating, reconcentrating. (additional references) | |
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"CONCENTRATING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: concentrait. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CONCENTRATING" (pronounced kÄ"nsuntrā'ting) |
| 6 | -t r ā' t i ng | arbitrating, administrating, castrating, demonstrating, frustrating, illustrating, infiltrating, nitrating, orchestrating, penetrating, perpetrating. |
| 5 | -r ā' t i ng | celebrating, denigrating, disintegrating, emigrating, gyrating, integrating, migrating. |
| 4 | -ā' t i ng | anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, abbreviating, abdicating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alienating, alleviating, allocating, alternating, articulating, assassinating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, chlorinating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, cooperating, coordinating, corroborating, culminating, cultivating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, discriminating, disseminating, dissipating, domesticating, dominating, donating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, eliminating, emanating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, exterminating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fluctuating, formulating, generating, graduating, gravitating, hesitating, humiliating, hydrogenating, illuminating, imitating, impersonating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, laminating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nominating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, originating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, percolating, permeating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, predominating, procrastinating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resonating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stagnating, stimulating, stipulating, subordinating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, terminating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, urinating, vacillating, validating, ventilating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, appointing, abutting, accenting, accepting, abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: recontacting. | |
-2 letters: contracting. | |
-3 letters: carcinogen, cocreating, coenacting, concerning, concertina, concerting, concreting, connecting, contacting, contenting, contingent, entrancing. | |
-4 letters: accenting, accreting, accretion, anorectic, attorning, cantering, cantoning, carnotite, cartoning, categoric, container, continent, cotangent, crenation, geotactic, ignorance, nattering, negotiant, nonacting, nontarget, rattening, recanting, recontact, tenanting. | |
-5 letters: accentor, acentric, acetonic, anointer, anoretic, argentic, canoeing, catering, centring, coacting, cocinera, coercing, cogitate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-g-i-n-n-n-o-r-t-t" | |
+2 letters: deconcentrating, reconcentrating. | |
+5 letters: intercommunicating. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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