concentrate

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /kɒn.sən.treɪt/

Etymology

From French concentrer.

Verb

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

   Let me concentrate!

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; -- opposed to 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, Internal Combustion^[1]:

     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).

Translations

bring to, or direct toward, a common center

• Arabic: ركز (ar) (rákkaza)
• Bulgarian: концентрирам (bg) (koncentriram), насочвам към общ център (bg) (nasočvam kǎm obšt centǎr)
• Catalan: concentrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集中 (cmn) (jízhōng)

• Czech: soustředit (cs)
• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Finnish: (transitive) keskittää (fi), (intransitive) keskittyä (fi)
• French: concentrer (fr)

• German: konzentrieren (de), {{t-SOP|de|[[sich] konzentrieren}}
• Italian: concentrare (it)
• Japanese: 集中 (ja)させる (しゅうちゅうさせる, shūchū-saseru)
• Latin: animadverto (la)
• Russian: концентрировать (ru) (koncentrírovat’) impf., сконцентрировать (ru) (skoncentrírovat’) pf., сосредоточивать (ru) (sosredotóčivat’) impf., сосредоточить (ru) (sosredotóčit’) pf.
• Spanish: concentrar (es)

increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore

• Bulgarian: концентрирам (bg) (koncentriram)
• Catalan: concentrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濃縮 (cmn), 浓缩 (cmn) (nóngsuō)

• Czech: koncentrovat (cs)
• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Finnish: (liquid) väkevöidä (fi), (ore) rikastaa (fi)
• French: concentrer (fr)
• German: konzentrieren (de)

• Italian: concentrare (it)
• Japanese: 凝縮 (ja)する (ぎょうしゅくする, gyōshuku-suru), 凝縮 (ja)させる (ぎょうしゅくさせる, gyōshuku-saseru)
• Maori: whakakukū (mi) (refers only to a liquid)
• Russian: концентрировать (ru) (koncentrírovat’) impf., сконцентрировать (ru) (skoncentrírovat’) pf.
• Spanish: concentrar (es)

approach or meet in a common center

• Bulgarian: съсредоточавам (bg) (sǎsredotočavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集中 (cmn) (jízhōng)

• Czech: soustředit se (cs)
• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Finnish: keskittyä (fi)
• German: sich konzentrieren (de)

• Italian: concentrarsi (it)
• Japanese: 集中する (ja) (しゅうちゅうする, shūchū-suru)
• Russian: концентрировать (ru) (koncentrírovat’) impf., сконцентрировать (ru) (skoncentrírovat’) pf., сосредоточивать (ru) (sosredotóčivat’) impf., сосредоточить (ru) (sosredotóčit’) pf.
• Spanish: concentrarse (es)

focus one's thought or attention

• Arabic: ركز (ar) (rákkaza), تركز (ar) (tarákkaza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集中 (cmn) (jízhōng)

• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• French: se concentrer (fr)
• German: sich konzentrieren (de)

• Japanese: 集中する (ja) (しゅうちゅうする, shūchū-suru)
• Maori: arotahi (mi)
• Russian: концентрироваться (ru) (koncentrírovat’sja) impf., сконцентрироваться (ru) (skoncentrírovat’sja) pf., сосредоточиваться (ru) (sosredotóčivat’sja) impf., сосредоточиться (ru) (sosredotóčit’sja) pf.
• Spanish: concentrarse (es)

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Translations to be checked

• French: (1,2) concentrer (fr), (3) se concentrer (fr)
• Hebrew: לרכז (he) (le'rakez) (1)

Derived terms

• concentrated

Noun

concentrate (plural concentrates)

1. A substance that is in a condensed form.

Translations

A substance that is in a condensed form

• Bulgarian: концентрат (bg) (koncentrat) m
• Czech: koncentrát (cs) m
• Finnish: tiiviste (fi), rikaste (fi), konsentraatti (fi)
• French: concentré (fr) m
• German: Konzentrat (de) n
• Greek: συμπύκνωμα (el) (sinpíknoma) n

• Hebrew: תרכיז (he) (tarkyz) m
• Hungarian: koncentrátum (hu)
• Italian: concentrato (it) m
• Maori: kukū (mi) (refers only to a liquid)
• Russian: концентра́т (ru) (koncentrát) m
• Spanish: concentrado (es) m

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Italian

Adjective

concentrate f pl

1. feminine plural of concentrato

Verb

concentrate

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

Anagrams

• concertante, concretante