Concentrate

Definition: Concentrate

Concentrate

Noun

1. The desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore.

2. A concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water.

3. A concentrated example; "the concentrate of contemporary despair".

Verb

1. Make dense or denser; of the solvent of a solution.

2. Focus one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies".

3. Make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food".

4. Make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary".

5. Draw together or meet in one common center; "These groups concentrate in the inner cities".

6. Compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan".

7. Be cooked until very little is left; as of sauces; "The sauce should reduce to one cup".

8. Cook until very little liquid is left, as of sauces; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "concentrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Concentrate \Con*cen"trate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Concentrated; Concentrating.]. (Websters 1913)

Chemistry

Food & Agriculture

Mining

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Synonyms: Concentrate

Assemblage

Verb: assemble, collect, muster; meet, unite, join, rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together; forgather; huddle; reassemble.

Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.

Centrality

Render central, centralize, concentrate; bring to a focus.

Convergence

Gather together, unite, concentrate, bring into a focus.

Preservation

Embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize, bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband; (store).

Crosswords: Concentrate

Just relax, concentrate. (Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones; writing credit: George Lucas)

Did you know that if you mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate you can make napalm? (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

Can we concentrate on coming up with a plan? (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

Coach, I've been thinking ahead, and I've decided to quit the team and concentrate on the academics. (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

The Council's orders are to concentrate on (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Serious because we can't concentrate and get this right. (Give It Up, Turn It Loose; performing artist: En Vogue)

I've been drunk all day, can't concentrate (INFATUATION; performing artist: Rod Stewart)

My first job was working in an orange juice factory, but I got canned because I couldn't concentrate. (references; author: unknown)

The Transportation of Ore Concentrate (1967)

Concentrate (1929)

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Books

• Concentrate & Study, with America's Foremost Hypnotist (reference)

• Current Management of Membrane Plant Concentrate (reference)

• Hearing on domestic violence : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, first session on the need to concentrate the fight against an escalating blight of violence against women, Boston, MA, February (reference)

• Just How to Concentrate (923) (reference)

• Membrane concentrate disposal (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Copper Concentrate & Blister Scrap (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Concentrate (reference)

• Concentrate & Study (reference)

• I Concentrate on You (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Shown is a scientist performing drug synthesis in a laboratory setting. She is wearing a white lab coat and wearing protective eye covering. The woman scientist is removing a solvent from a rotary evaporator to concentrate a chemical solution, while performing an experiment to synthesize an anticancer drug. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Entamoeba coli. Concentrate, iodine stain. Parasite, ameba. Credit: CDC.

Jellyfish and their plankton prey concentrate along invisible water boundaries. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Tomorrow's tomatoes might have less water and more of the compounds called solids that processors condense at the factory. The concentrate, rich in fiber and natural sugars, becomes the starting point for tomato paste and most of the other tomato-based foods at your supermarket. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Fifty years ago, frozen orange juice was just a flavorless commercial flop. The only orange juice you could get back then was either squeezed from fresh oranges, mixed from a relatively tasteless concentrate, or poured from a can-and it tasted like a can! P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

John F. Kennedy High School students Christopher Thompson, Angela Archer, and Sean Gros use a rotary evaporator to concentrate a bacterial culture in an Agricultural Research Service Laboratory in New Orleans, Louisiana. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Production. Copper. A closeup of a disc-type filter showing how the dried copper concentrate is broken by expansion of the filter and then discharged. This filter unit is at the Arthur plant of the Utah Copper Company. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Concentrate using the formalin � ethyl acetate sedimentation technique. (references)

However, these seizures may occur so frequently that the person cannot concentrate in school or other situations. (references)

As with other forms of hypoglycemia, the symptoms include headache, lack of energy, and an inability to concentrate. (references)

Business

This report will concentrate on the largest privatizations. (references)

Tricon will concentrate on the Taco Bell franchise once KFC is fully operational. (references)

Its services mainly concentrate on the repair and overhaul of turbine blades and vanes. (references)

Children

Israel and the occupied territories

NGO's in the field of children's welfare concentrate their efforts on public education, on promoting the concept of children's rights as citizens, on improving legal representation for minors, and on combating the problems of poverty, which are most notable for the Bedouin children of the south. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

Immediately after the march, General Guei met with the journalists and told them to concentrate on constructive criticism rather than on news that was false or could divide the country. (references)

Economic History

Lithuania

Several of the new private businesses concentrate on importing. (references)

Human Rights

Fiji

There are also several small, foreign-based organizations that concentrate on local human rights causes, including the Coalition for Democracy in Fiji (with offices in New Zealand and Australia) and two United Kingdom-based groups, the International Fiji Movement and the Movement for Democracy in Fiji. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

The applied tariff on soy protein concentrate is 20 percent. (references)

France

Despite problems with their coalition partners, the Socialists continue to concentrate on implementing a domestic agenda focused on economic growth and bringing down high unemployment. (references)

Political Rights

Taiwan

In 2000 the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau was ordered to cease political intelligence gathering regarding politicians and political parties, and to concentrate on criminal matters. (references)

Trade

Honduras

The programs that are available from this institution concentrate on export projects, including export processing zones and industrial parks. (references)

Bolivia

However, Citibank sold all its retail business to domestic banks and announced that it was going to concentrate in corporate banking during 2000. (references)

Travel

West Bank

U.S. businesspeople who travel to the area should concentrate on building strong personal relationships with potential partners. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Many concentrate on educating women about existing legal rights. (references)

Pakistan

Other groups concentrate on providing legal aid to poor women in prison who may not be able to afford an attorney. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "concentrate": concentrate and confine ♦ concentrate on ♦ concentrate on smth. ♦ concentrate upon ♦ metallic concentrate ♦ to concentrate by evaporation ♦ tomato concentrate. Additional references.

Ending with "concentrate": over-concentrate.

Albanian

përqendroj (center, centralize, centre), përqendrohem (apply, center, centre, focus, recollect oneself), nxjerr koncentrat, koncentroj (concentre). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كثف (compress, condense, exalt, inspissate, intensify, thicken), ‏حشد (assemblage, assemble, boodle, cloud, college, concourse, confluence, crew, crowd, gather, gathering, horde, host, huddle, legion, loads of, lots of, mob, mobilize, multitude, oodles, pack, pile up, press, rabble, recall, regiment, throng), ‏تجمع (aggregation, assemblage, assemble, collect, concourse, congregation, converge, convergence, flock, gather, gathering, get together, group, grouping, huddle, league, mass, muster, organization, pile up, pool, press, rally, reassemble), ‏تركز (converge, focus), ‏أصبح أشد قوة, ‏ركز (center, centre, compress, condense, distil, fasten, fix, focus), ‏شكل مركز. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съсредочавам (apply, bend, center on), концентрат (concentration, short), концентрирам се (center on, concentre), концентрирам (center on, condense, focus), обогатявам (enrich, fortify, treat). (various references)

Chinese 

集中 (Centered, Centering, centralise, centralised, centralising, Centralism, Centralize, Centralized, Centralizing, Centred, Centring), 濃縮 (concentration), 專心 (absorption, concentration, engrossed). (various references)

Czech

zamìřit (bend), soustředit (focus), koncentrovat, koncentrát. (various references)

Danish

mostkoncentrat (concentrated must), kraftfoder (concentrated feedingstuffs, concentrates, feed concentrate), koncentrat (metallic concentrate). (various references)

Dutch

concentreren (concentration, enrich, to concentrate, upgrade), concentraat (metallic concentrate), krachtvoer (concentrated feedingstuffs, concentrates, feed concentrate), krachtvoeder (concentrated feedingstuffs), geconcentreerde most (concentrated must), geconcentreerd metaalerts (metallic concentrate), geconcentreerd erts (metallic concentrate). (various references)

Farsi 

متمرکزکردن (Epitomize, Localize), تمرکزدادن (Centralize), تغلیظ (Condensation). (various references)

Finnish

tiivistetty rypälemehu (concentrated must), rikaste (metallic concentrate), konsentroitu rypälemehu (concentrated must), konsentraatti. (various references)

French

concentrer (compress, condense), concentré (concentrated). (various references)

German

konzentrieren (center, centre, focus, mass, narrow down, package, pool, to concentrate), konzentrat (glacial, metallic concentrate, retentate, retente, retention). (various references)

Greek 

συγκεντρώνω (amass, band, bring together, center, centralize, centre, collect, consolidate, focalize, focus, focus on, get together, get together 2, marshal, muster, summon up), συγκεντρώνομαι (center, centre, collect, gather, muster), συμπυκνώνω (boil down, compact, compress, condense). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"תרכז (center on, mass), לרכז (condense, focus, funnel, mass), תרכיז. (various references)

Hungarian

sûrítmény (puree), koncentrál (to focus), dúsított termék, összpontosít (come together, concentre, focus, rally, to center, to centre, to focus). (various references)

Indonesian

sari, menumpukan (cause something to rest, lean something on to, lean with something), memberkas (bind), bahan pekat. (various references)

Italian

concentrato (conc., concentrated, metallic concentrate), concentrarsi (center, centre), concentrare (center, centre, focus, gather), mosto concentrato (concentrated must), minerale metallurgico arrichito (metallic concentrate), minerale arrichito (metallic concentrate), mangime concentrato (concentrated feedingstuffs, concentrates, feed concentrate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

濃化 (thicken). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

のうか (agricultural course or department, farm family, farmer, thicken). (various references)

Korean 

농축물. (various references)

Manx

chiughey (become heavy, clot, congeal, thicken). (various references)

Pig Latin

oncentratecay

Portuguese

concentrado (concentrated, condensate, conglobate, intent, tabloid). (various references)

Romanian

condensa (compact, compress, condense), concentra (bend, center, centre, compress, concentre, condense, focus), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), se concentra (concentre), se aduna (collect, congregate, flock, forgather, gather, join, mass, meet, mob, rally, troop together), aduna (abstract, accumulate, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop). (various references)

Russian 

концентрировать (center, centre, concentre, concoct, mass). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

usredsrediti se (zero), usredsrediti (focus), prikupiti se, koncentrisati se (center, centre), koncentrat. (various references)

Spanish

concentrar (concenter, concentre, consolidate, focus, funnel), concentrado (concentrated, extract, intensive, lumped, strong). (various references)

Swedish

koncentrera (center, centre, condense, funnel), koncentrat (pemican, pemmican), anrika (enrich). (various references)

Thai

เพ่งความสนใจ (focus), สิ่งที่ถูกทำให้มีความเข้มข้นขึ้น, ทำให้เพ่งความสนใจ, ทำให้เข้มข้นขึ้น, ทำให้ตรงไปยังจุ�"ศูนย์กลาง. (various references)

Turkish

yoğunlaştırmak (compact, condense, intensify, thicken), yoğunlaşmak (center, centre, condense, intensify, precipitate, thicken, zero in on, zoom), yoğun madde, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), konsantre olmak (center, centre, pore, pore over, rivet), konsantre madde, konsantre etmek, dikkatini vermek (attend, engross, glue, settle down to, zero in on). (various references)

Turkmen 

яygnamak (collect, gather). (various references)

Ukrainian

концентруватися (centralize, concenter, concentre), концентрувати (center, centralize, centre, concenter, concentre), концентратний, концентрат (concoction), зосереджуватися (centralize, collect), зосереджувати (center, centralize, centre, rally, rivet), збагачувати (enrich, fortify). (various references)

com-, contenta, contenti, contentus, contine, contineant, continebantur, continebat, continebis, continebit, continebunt, continendi, continens, continent, continentem, continentes, continentia, continentis, continentur, continere, continerent, contineret, continet, continetis, continuerit, continuerunt, continuimus, continuisti, continuit, densabuntur, percontinuit. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "concentrate": concentrated, concentratedly, concentrates. (additional references)

Words ending with "concentrate": deconcentrate, reconcentrate. (additional references)

Words containing "concentrate": deconcentrated, deconcentrates, reconcentrated, reconcentrates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Concentrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cocentrate, concentr, concentrait, concentrat, concentratd, concentred, concerntrate, Concertate, concertrate, consentrate, consintrate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: concenter, connecter, contactee, reconnect, recontact.

-3 letters: accentor, carotene, cocreate, concrete, contract, cotenant, cretonne, entrance, reaccent, trecento.

-4 letters: accrete, acetone, canteen, centare, centner, coenact, coerect, concent, concern, concert, connate, connect, contact, content, corneae, crenate, enactor, enteron, entrant, entreat, neonate, ocreate, ratteen, reenact, tenoner, ternate, toccate.

-5 letters: accent, ancone, atoner, attorn, cancer, canner, cannot, canter, canton.

+1 letter: concentrated, concentrates.

+2 letters: concentrative, deconcentrate, reconcentrate.

+3 letters: concentratedly, deconcentrated, deconcentrates, reconcentrated, reconcentrates.

+4 letters: counterinstance, counterreaction, deconcentrating, deconcentration, nonarchitecture, noncertificated, reconcentrating, reconcentration.

+5 letters: counterinstances, counterreactions, deconcentrations, intercommunicate, nonarchitectures, overaccentuating, reconcentrations.