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Concentrated   /kˈɑnsəntrˌeɪtəd/  /kˈɔnsəntrˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
verb
Concentrate  v. t.  (past & past part. concentrated; pres. part. concentrating)  
1.
To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention. "(He) concentrated whole force at his own camp."
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; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; opposed to dilute. "Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength."
Synonyms: To combine; to condense; to consolidate.


Concentrate  v. i.  To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.


adjective
concentrated  adj.  
1.
Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore. Note: (Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted))
2.
Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused. Note: (Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided) (Also See: compact.)
3.
Intense; in an extreme degree; of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.
4.
Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated. Note: (Narrower terms: supersaturated)
Synonyms: saturated.
5.
Reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.
Synonyms: condensed.
6.
Characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; of actions; as, concentrated study.
Synonyms: intensive.
7.
Characterized by mental concentration.
Synonyms: intent.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Concentrated" Quotes from Famous Books



... longed to act—on the desire we all feel to have "the wings of a dove, and fly away and be at rest,"—floating afar from the dross and dust of earth into the blue expanse of the heavenly ether:—a thing yet to be accomplished!—or I will confess to be no prophet: in these days of electricity, concentrated and accumulative after the fashion of M. Faure, aided perhaps by some lighter gas, some condensed form of tamed dynamite,—these elevating and motive powers being helped by exquisite mechanism either as attached to the human ...
— My Life as an Author • Martin Farquhar Tupper
... a blot of ink upon the palm of the hand, at the point where the hole appears to be, and again observe as before. Unless the attention be strongly concentrated upon objects seen through the tubes the ink-spot will be visible within the tube (apparently), but that part of the hand upon which it rests will be invisible, unless special attention be directed to the hand. Ordinarily the spot will appear opaque. By directing the tube upon brilliantly ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... kill your wife?" she demanded in a low voice of concentrated anger. "If so, you're going the right ...
— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler
... was an arrant Gitana, and in her all the wickedness of her race seemed to be concentrated. At last her father was killed in an affray with the troopers of the Hermandad, whereupon my wife and myself succeeded to the authority which he had formerly exercised in the tribe. We had at first loved each other, but at last the Gitano life, with its accompanying wickedness, becoming hateful ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... where the Germans had concentrated 10,000 Belgian refugees, they promised to leave the American Relief Committee with sufficient supplies to feed them. But the last patrols completely sacked the American relief storehouses of all eatables and then dynamited the building. And it was from ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller


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