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- Dictionaryconcentrate/ˈkɒnsntreɪt/
verb
- 1. focus all one's attention on a particular object or activity: "she couldn't concentrate on the film" Similar Opposite
- 2. gather (people or things) together in a common location: "the nation's wealth was concentrated in the hands of the governing elite"
noun
- 1. a substance made by removing or reducing the diluting agent; a concentrated form of something: "apple juice concentrate"
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to direct your attention or your efforts towards a particular activity, subject, or problem: Come on, concentrate! We don't have all day to do this. I can't concentrate on my work with all that noise. I find running concentrates the mind (= helps me to think). I'm going to concentrate on my writing for a while.
The meaning of CONCENTRATE is to bring or direct toward a common center or objective : focus. How to use concentrate in a sentence.
to direct your attention or your efforts toward a particular activity, subject, or problem: Come on, concentrate! We don't have all day to do this. I can't concentrate on my work with all that noise. I find running concentrates the mind (= helps me to think). I'm going to concentrate on my writing for a while.
Concentrate definition: to bring or draw to a common center or point of union; converge; direct toward one point; focus. See examples of CONCENTRATE used in a sentence.
Concentrate means to make something stronger, denser, or more focused. If you concentrate your energy, for example, you become more powerful! Concentrate your efforts at digging, and you'll plant that shrub a lot faster.
A concentrate is a product that has been concentrated, for example by the removal of liquid.
1. to come or cause to come to a single purpose or aim: to concentrate one's hopes on winning. 2. (Chemistry) to make or become denser or purer by the removal of certain elements, esp the solvent of a solution. 3. (Mining & Quarrying) (tr) to remove rock or sand from (an ore) to make it purer.
[intransitive, transitive] to give all your attention to something and not think about anything else. I can't concentrate with all that noise going on. concentrate on something I struggled to concentrate on my job because I was worried about my son. concentrate on doing something He tried to concentrate on reading his book but couldn't.
CONCENTRATE definition: 1. to think very carefully about something you are doing and nothing else: 2. to be present in…. Learn more.
OED's earliest evidence for concentrate is from 1758, in the writing of Robert Dossie. It is also recorded as a verb from the early 1600s. concentrate is a borrowing from Latin.
