concentrate

See also: concéntrate

English

Etymology

From French concentrer.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒn.sən.tɹeɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/

Verb

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

1. (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

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.

   Antonym: dilute

   to concentrate acid by evaporation

   to concentrate by washing

3. 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.

4. (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.

Derived terms

• bioconcentrate
• concentrated
• concentration
• concentrative
• concentrator
• cryoconcentrate
• deconcentrate
• hemoconcentrate
• overconcentrate
• preconcentrate
• reconcentrate
• superconcentrate
• upconcentrate

 

Translations

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), koncentriĝi
• 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 (he) (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)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: (1,2) ^{(please verify)} concentrer (fr), (3) ^{(please verify)} se concentrer (fr)
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} לרכז (le'rakez) (1)

Noun

concentrate (plural concentrates)

1. A substance that is in a condensed form.

   orange concentrate

Derived terms

• leaf protein concentrate
• tomato concentrate

 

Translations

A substance that is in a condensed form

• Arabic: مركز (ar)
• Bulgarian: концентрат m (koncentrat)
• Czech: koncentrát m
• Finnish: tiiviste (fi), rikaste (fi), konsentraatti
• French: concentré (fr) m
• German: Konzentrat (de) n
• Greek: συμπύκνωμα (el) n (sympýknoma)
• Hebrew: תרכיז (he) m (tarkyz)
• Hungarian: koncentrátum (hu)
• Irish: tiúchán m, dlúthán m (juice)
• Italian: concentrato (it) m
• Maori: kukū (refers only to a liquid)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konsentrat (no) n

  Nynorsk: konsentrat n

• Polish: koncentrat (pl) m
• Portuguese: concentrado (pt) m
• Russian: концентра́т (ru) m (koncentrát)
• Spanish: concentrado (es) m
• Swedish: koncentrat (sv) n
• Tagalog: lapot

Anagrams

• concertante

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

concentrate f pl

1. feminine plural of concentrato

Participle

concentrate f pl

1. feminine plural of concentrato

Etymology 2

Verb

concentrate

1. inflection of concentrare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• concertante, concretante

Spanish

Verb

concentrate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of concentrar combined with te