verb
- Make denser, stronger, or purer.
- usage: "concentrate juice"
- synonyms: concentrate
- Direct one's attention on something.
- usage: "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
- Make central.
- usage: "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
- synonyms: centralize, centralise, concentrate
- Make more concise.
- usage: "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
- synonyms: digest, condense, concentrate
- Draw together or meet in one common center.
- usage: "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"
- synonyms: concentrate
- Compress or concentrate.
- usage: "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
- synonyms: condense, concentrate, contract
- Be cooked until very little liquid is left.
- usage: "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
- synonyms: boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate
- Cook until very little liquid is left.
- usage: "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
- synonyms: reduce, boil down, concentrate
adjective
- Gathered together or made less diffuse.
- usage: "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
- Of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced.
- Intensely focused.
- usage: "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
- Of light. ( transmitted directly from a pointed light source)
- synonyms: hard
- Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance.
- usage: "a saturated solution"
- synonyms: saturated
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