concentrate

See also: concéntrate

English

Etymology

From French concentrer.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

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^[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).

   Let me concentrate!

Derived terms

• concentrated

Translations

bring to, or direct toward, a common center

• Afrikaans: konsentreer (af)
• Arabic: رَكَّزَ (rakkaza)
• Bulgarian: концентрирам (bg) (koncentriram), насочвам към общ център (nasočvam kǎm obšt centǎr)
• Catalan: concentrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集中 (zh) (jízhōng)

• Czech: soustředit (cs)
• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Esperanto: koncentri (eo)
• Finnish: (transitive) keskittää (fi), (intransitive) keskittyä (fi)
• French: concentrer (fr)
• Galician: concentrar (gl)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: konzentrieren (de), sich konzentrieren
• Italian: concentrare (it)
• Japanese: 集中させる (ja) (しゅうちゅうさせる, shūchū saseru)
• Latin: animadverto (la)
• Maori: āta whakaaro (of thinking), arotahi
• Portuguese: concentrar (pt)
• Russian: концентри́ровать (ru) impf (koncentrírovatʹ), сконцентри́ровать (ru) pf (skoncentrírovatʹ), сосредото́чивать (ru) impf (sosredotóčivatʹ), сосредото́чить (ru) pf (sosredotóčitʹ)
• Spanish: concentrar (es)
• Swedish: koncentrera (sv)
• Yiddish: קאָנצענטרירן (kontsentrirn)

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

• Afrikaans: konsentreer (af)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: концентрирам (bg) (koncentriram)
• Catalan: concentrar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 濃縮／浓缩 (zh) (nóngsuō), 浓缩 (zh) (nóngsuō)

• Czech: koncentrovat
• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Esperanto: koncentri (eo)
• Finnish: (liquid) väkevöidä, (ore) rikastaa
• French: concentrer (fr)
• Galician: concentrar (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: konzentrieren (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: concentrare (it)
• Japanese: 凝縮する (ja) (ぎょうしゅくする, gyōshuku suru), 凝縮させる (ja) (ぎょうしゅくさせる, gyōshuku saseru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakakukū (refers only to a liquid)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: concentrar (pt)
• Russian: концентри́ровать (ru) impf (koncentrírovatʹ), сконцентри́ровать (ru) pf (skoncentrírovatʹ)
• Spanish: concentrar (es)
• Swedish: koncentrera (sv)
• Tagalog: palaputin
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

approach or meet in a common center

• Afrikaans: konsentreer (af)
• Bulgarian: съсредоточавам (bg) (sǎsredotočavam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集中 (zh) (jízhōng)

• Czech: soustředit se (cs)
• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Finnish: keskittyä (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: sich konzentrieren (de)
• Italian: concentrarsi (it)
• Japanese: 集中する (ja) (しゅうちゅうする, shūchū suru)
• Portuguese: concentrar-se
• Russian: концентри́ровать (ru) impf (koncentrírovatʹ), сконцентри́ровать (ru) pf (skoncentrírovatʹ), сосредото́чивать (ru) impf (sosredotóčivatʹ), сосредото́чить (ru) pf (sosredotóčitʹ)
• Spanish: concentrarse (es)

focus one's thought or attention

• Afrikaans: konsentreer (af)
• Arabic: رَكَّزَ (rakkaza), تَرَكَّزَ (tarakkaza)
• Armenian: կենտրոնանալ (hy) (kentronanal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 集中 (zh) (jízhōng)

• Dutch: concentreren (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: keskittyä (fi)
• French: se concentrer (fr)
• Galician: concentrarse
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: sich konzentrieren (de)
• Greek: συγκεντρώνομαι (el) (sygkentrónomai)
• Japanese: 集中する (ja) (しゅうちゅうする, shūchū-suru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 집중하다 (ko) (jipjunghada)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: animadverto (la)
• Maori: arotahi, whakahihiwa
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: concentrar-se
• Russian: концентри́роваться (ru) impf (koncentrírovatʹsja), сконцентри́роваться (ru) pf (skoncentrírovatʹsja), сосредото́чиваться (ru) impf (sosredotóčivatʹsja), сосредото́читься (ru) pf (sosredotóčitʹsja)
• Spanish: concentrarse (es)
• Swedish: koncentrera sig
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: konsantre olmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: зосереджуватися (zoseredžuvatysja), концентруватися (koncentruvatysja)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Yiddish: זיך קאָנצענטרירן (zikh kontsentrirn)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: (1,2) ^{(please verify)} concentrer (fr), (3) ^{(please verify)} se concentrer (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} לרכז (le'rakez) (1)

Noun

concentrate (plural concentrates)

1. A substance that is in a condensed form.

Translations

A substance that is in a condensed form

• Bulgarian: концентрат m (koncentrat)
• Czech: koncentrát m
• Finnish: tiiviste (fi), rikaste, konsentraatti
• French: concentré (fr) m
• German: Konzentrat (de) n
• Greek: συμπύκνωμα (el) n (sympýknoma)
• Hebrew: תרכיז (he) m (tarkyz)
• Hungarian: koncentrátum
• Italian: concentrato (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: kukū (refers only to a liquid)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsentrat (no) n

  Nynorsk: konsentrat n

• Portuguese: concentrado m
• Russian: концентра́т (ru) m (koncentrát)
• Spanish: concentrado (es) m
• Swedish: koncentrat (sv) n
• Tagalog: lapot

Anagrams

• concertante

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Italian

Adjective

concentrate f pl

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective concentrato.

Verb

concentrate

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

Anagrams

• concertante, concretante

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /konθenˈtɾate/ [kõn̟.θẽn̪ˈt̪ɾa.t̪e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /konsenˈtɾate/ [kõn.sẽn̪ˈt̪ɾa.t̪e]

Verb

concentrate

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