Concentrate Meaning and Definition

Word: Concentrate

How to pronounce: ˈkɒnsəntreɪt

Verb

Definitions:

1. Focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity.

Example sentences: "She couldn't concentrate on the movie"

2. Gather (people or things) together in numbers or in a mass.

Example sentences: "Wealth was concentrated in the hands of the governing elite"

3. Increase the strength or proportion of (a substance or solution) by removing or reducing the water or any other diluting agent or by selective accumulation of atoms or molecules.

Example sentences: "Plants and microorganisms can concentrate metals from the environment"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A substance made by removing water or other diluting agent; a concentrated form of something, especially food.

Example sentences: "Apple juice concentrate"

Synonyms:

focus

centre

center

gather

collect

accumulate

amass

cluster

mass

centralize

centralise

condense

unite

consolidate

Antonyms:

understand

Derivations:

concentrating

concentred

concentration

concentrator

concentrated

concentric

Concentrate in Other Languages...

Spanish: Concentrar

German: Konzentrieren

French: Concentrer

Italian: Concentrare

Turkish: Yoğunlaşmak