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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concentrated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ It thus represents the freezing-point curve of increasingly more concentrated solutions of salt in water.
▪ The difficulty of the music forced a more concentrated performance, which paid wonderful dividends in excitement and intensity.
▪ However oxygen, rather than air, is used to give a more concentrated syn-gas.
▪ Final-year units also treat general theoretical and practical concerns but at a more advanced level, and in a more concentrated manner.
▪ But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne.
▪ Many experts, he said, believed that we should aim for a smaller, more concentrated and more efficient network.
■ NOUN
effort
▪ This is an astonishing output from a single individual if detailed concentrated effort was put into all of them.
form
▪ Protect your hands with rubber gloves because it can be a dangerous substance in such a concentrated form.
▪ Possibly some one assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen, and therefore invigorating.
▪ In its concentrated form it is hazardous to handle especially as many commercial formulations are stabilised with caustic soda.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Solutions to these problems will take time and concentrated effort.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Business became concentrated and competing centres find it hard to become established.
▪ By 1880 the result was already a highly concentrated and mechanized industrial system.
▪ Each successive tide dissolves the salt and deposits more, forming pools of highly concentrated saline.
▪ In backwashing and regenerating the base-exchange medium, a fairly concentrated solution containing sodium and calcium chlorides is produced.
▪ Instead of being human and down-to-earth, faith becomes a fragrant, concentrated essence.
▪ Now they even have four times concentrated products so you need only a quarter of the measure.
▪ She explained that animals in the wild don't get enough energy, and sugar is concentrated energy.
▪ The total removal rate shot up to 27 percent an hour, depositing the sulphur in a concentrated drizzle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
concentrated

concentrated \concentrated\ adj.

  1. Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.

    Note: [Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted)]

  2. Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused.

    Note: [Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided] [Also See: compact.]

  3. Intense; in an extreme degree; -- of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.

  4. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated.

    Note: [Narrower terms: supersaturated]

    Syn: saturated.

  5. reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.

    Syn: condensed.

  6. characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; -- of actions; as, concentrated study.

    Syn: intensive.

  7. characterized by mental concentration.

    Syn: intent.

Wiktionary
concentrated
  1. 1 Not dilute; having a high concentration. 2 intense; directed towards a specific location. v

  2. (en-past of: concentrate)

WordNet
concentrated
  1. adj. gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" [ant: distributed]

  2. of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced

  3. intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay"

  4. being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution" [syn: saturated] [ant: unsaturated]

Wikipedia
Concentrated

"Concentrated" is Fear Zero's second studio release. The EP was released in 2005 under the label Satch Records.

Usage examples of "concentrated".

His aggressive appearance was further enhanced by a trait common among achondroplastic dwarfs: because their tubular bones are shortened, their muscle mass is concentrated, creating an impression of considerable strength.

Bill, Adler and I concentrated on Dorman and Morelli and kept track of every move they made.

And deliberately he concentrated on the antiestablishment, kill-the-Man rhetoric on the radio.

Be that as it may, they both concentrated on rust-red asters until there were no more left in the buckets.

The first is a series of autocatalytic chemical reactions concentrated within tiny vesicles whose skins are self-organizing lipid bilayers.

Pashtuns, who are concentrated in the southern part of the country, extending into the North-West Frontier and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan.

A toxin like this batrachotoxin gets concentrated in the liver and is excreted in the bile.

In a much more concentrated form than,existed in a hive, it transformed the dazed young workers into a buzzing mob, held together by their chemically induced perception that other bees were trying to rob their honey stores.

During these negotiations the Russian armies were concentrated upon the Bessarabian frontiers, and at the same time the Emperor Nicholas was sounding Sir H.

He was just beginning to get the hang of the discipline when she abandoned him, and, for a week, they concentrated on Biri from dawn to dusk.

Three or four concentrated blasts on the same area of the shield and it would be over.

On the polished desk in front of him, the blue light beat downward, forming a concentrated oval of brilliance.

After the war, Iraq admitted to a United Nations inspection team that it had produced a staggering nineteen thousand liters of concentrated botulinum toxin--three times more than the amount needed to kill everyone on Earth.

Incidentally, I have taken the precaution of providing concentrated cyanide tablets for Henriques and myself: death from the Satan Bug, as we have observed from experiments on animals, is rather more prolonged than death from botulinus and most distressing.

But, in developing it, its protagonists have moved away from how biological brains and psychological minds might work and instead concentrated on solving problems embedded in the silicon of computer chips and in mathematical logic - an approach which may produce bigger and better machines, but has become entirely indifferent to their relationship with the biological systems they were once attempting to model.