concentrate

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Pronunciation edit

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/

Verb edit

concentrate (third-person singular simple present concentrates, present participle concentrating, simple past and past participle concentrated)

(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
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
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.
(intransitive) To focus one's thought or attention (on).
Let me concentrate!
- 1962 October, Brian Haresnape, “Focus on B.R. passenger stations”, in Modern Railways, page 252:
  The Group has recently concentrated on two main objectives, the implementation of a Code of Practice on minor station improvements and the preparation of a stock list of approved items of equipment for railway stations.

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bring to, or direct toward, a common center

Afrikaans: konsentreer (af)
Arabic: رَكَّزَ (rakkaza)
Armenian: կենտրոնացնել (hy) (kentronacʻnel)
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)
German: konzentrieren (de), sich konzentrieren
Irish: cuimsigh
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
Polish: skupiać (pl) impf, skupić (pl) pf, koncentrować (pl) impf, skoncentrować (pl) pf, ogniskować impf, zogniskować pf, ześrodkować pf, ześrodkowywać impf
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)
Ukrainian: концентрува́ти impf (koncentruváty), сконцентрува́ти pf (skoncentruváty), зосере́джувати impf (zoserédžuvaty), зосере́дити pf (zoserédyty)
Yiddish: קאָנצענטרירן (kontsentrirn)

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

Afrikaans: konsentreer (af)
Armenian: խտացնել (hy) (xtacʻnel)
Bulgarian: концентрирам (bg) (koncentriram)
Catalan: concentrar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 濃縮／浓缩 (zh) (nóngsuō)
Czech: koncentrovat
Dutch: concentreren (nl)
Esperanto: koncentri (eo)
Finnish: (liquid) väkevöidä, (ore) rikastaa (fi)
French: concentrer (fr)
Galician: concentrar (gl)
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: konzentrieren (de)
Irish: tiubhaigh, dlúthaigh
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: រំងាស់ (km) (rumngŏəh) (liquid, especially food)
Maori: whakakukū (refers only to a liquid)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: zatężać impf, zatężyć pf, stężać impf, stężyć pf, zagęszczać (pl) impf, zagęścić (pl) pf
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: cô (vi)

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)
German: sich konzentrieren (de)
Irish: comhchruinnigh
Italian: concentrarsi (it), incentrare (it)
Japanese: 集中する (ja) (しゅうちゅうする, shūchū suru)
Polish: skupiać się (pl) impf, skupić się (pl) pf, koncentrować się (pl) impf, skoncentrować się (pl) pf, zbierać się (pl) impf, zebrać się (pl) pf
Portuguese: concentrar-se (pt)
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)
Cornish: keskreuni
Dutch: concentreren (nl)
Esperanto: koncentri sin (figurative)
Estonian: keskenduma
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)
Hawaiian: noʻonoʻo pono
Hebrew: התרכז (hitrakéz)
Icelandic: einbeita sér
Irish: d'aire a dhíriú, d'aird a dhíriú
Italian: focalizzare (it), puntare (it)
Japanese: 集中する (ja) (しゅうちゅうする, shūchū-suru)
Khmer: ប្រមូលអារម្មណ៍ (prɑmoul ʼaarɑm)
Korean: 집중하다 (ko) (jipjunghada)
Latin: animadverto (la)
Maori: arotahi, whakahihiwa, whakaarorangi
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: skupić się (pl) pf, skupiać się (pl) impf, koncentrować się (pl) impf, skoncentrować się (pl) pf
Portuguese: concentrar-se (pt)
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: tập trung (vi)
Yiddish: זיך קאָנצענטרירן (zikh kontsentrirn)

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