Слово англійською: concentrate

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Переклад concentrate українською: концентрат

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concentrate

verb
/ˈkɑːnsntreɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they concentrate
/ˈkɑːnsntreɪt/
he / she / it concentrates
/ˈkɑːnsntreɪts/
past simple concentrated
/ˈkɑːnsntreɪtɪd/
past participle concentrated
/ˈkɑːnsntreɪtɪd/
-ing form concentrating
/ˈkɑːnsntreɪtɪŋ/
  1. [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 something Nothing concentrates the mind better than the knowledge that you could die tomorrow (= it makes you think very clearly).
    • concentrate something on something After 1926 she concentrated her energies on her medical practice.
    • concentrate something on doing something I decided to concentrate all my efforts on finding somewhere to live.
  2. [transitive] concentrate something + adv./prep. to bring something together in one place
    • Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite.
    • We need to concentrate resources on the most run-down areas.
    • Fighting was concentrated around the towns to the north.
    • Never concentrate the heat in one place for too long.
  3. [transitive] concentrate something (specialist) to increase the strength of a substance by reducing its volume, for example by boiling it synonym reduce
    4. Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘bring towards a centre’): Latinized form of concentre, fromcon- ‘together’ + centrum ‘centre’ or from French concentrer ‘to concentrate’. Sense (1) dates from the early 20th cent.
Phrasal Verbs
  • concentrate on
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