condense
See also: condensé
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condensare.
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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, (cooking) reduce; 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 I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- In what shape they choose,
Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.
- 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 1138660207:
- The secret course pursued both 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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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.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
- The huge condense bodies of planets.
ReferencesEdit
- condense at OneLook Dictionary Search
- condense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
FrenchEdit
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condense
- inflection of condenser:
ItalianEdit
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condense f
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LatinEdit
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condēnse
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condense
- inflection of condensar:
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condense
- inflection of condensar: