condense
See also: condensé
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
condense (third-person singular simple present condenses, present participle condensing, simple past and past participle condensed)
- (transitive) To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
- Synonyms: thicken, simplify, reduce (cooking); see also Thesaurus:compress
- Antonym: dilute
- An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
- Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 1”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.
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- The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
- (transitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
- (intransitive, chemistry) To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
- Water condenses on the window on cold days because of the warm air inside.
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TranslationsEdit
to concentrate toward the essence
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to transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state
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to be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state
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AdjectiveEdit
condense (comparative more condense, superlative most condense)
- (archaic) Condensed; compact; dense.
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- The huge condense bodies of planets.
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ReferencesEdit
- condense at OneLook Dictionary Search
- condense in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
condense
- first-person singular present indicative of condenser
- third-person singular present indicative of condenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of condenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of condenser
- second-person singular imperative of condenser
ItalianEdit
NounEdit
condense f
AnagramsEdit
LatinEdit
AdjectiveEdit
condēnse
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
condense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of condensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of condensar
- first-person singular imperative of condensar
- third-person singular imperative of condensar
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
condense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of condensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of condensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of condensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of condensar.