condense
See also: condensé
Contents
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare.
PronunciationEdit
-
Audio (US) (file)
VerbEdit
condense (third-person singular simple present condenses, present participle condensing, simple past and past participle condensed)
- (transitive) To decrease size or volume by concentration toward the essence.
- An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
- Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
- To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate.
- Milton
- In what shape they choose, / Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.
- Motley
- The secret course pursued at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
- Milton
- (intransitive, chemistry) To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
SynonymsEdit
- (to decrease size or volume): minify
AntonymsEdit
TranslationsEdit
to decrease size or volume
|
to transform something into a liquid
|
to be transformed into a liquid
|
AdjectiveEdit
condense (comparative more condense, superlative most condense)
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
- Homophones: condensent, condenses
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
LatinEdit
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.