The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concentrate \Con*cen"trate\ (? or ?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concentrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Concentrating.] [Pref. con- + L. centrum center. Cf. Concenter.]
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To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
(He) concentrated whole force at his own camp.
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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; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute.
Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength.
--Arbuthnot.Syn: To combine; to condense; to consolidate.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of concentrate English)
Usage examples of "concentrating".
Beezling had been assembled specifically to deploy the Alchemist device, its design concentrating on durability and performance.
Iasius swept it all in with the distortion field, concentrating it into an abundant coherent stream which the patterning cells absorbed and redirected.
He let the dribs and drabs of light soak into what was left of his mind, concentrating on what he saw, the words he heard.
Unless Rubra’s principal personality pattern was concentrating on him in particular, the autonomous monitoring of the subroutines could be circumvented.
Harkey’s Bar was full with starship crews hunched around tables, or concentrating in small knots at the bar.
He felt the others in the spaceplane cabin lending their strength, concentrating on a point just below the boom pivot.
Once we’ve done that we can start concentrating on how to get them through the mountains.
Theo was concentrating hard on keeping them straight and level, but it was tough going.
Staring resolutely ahead, concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other.
He was concentrating on the rungs in front of his face, not daring to look down.
Of course, Moyo could use his energistic power to enhance any physical attribute such as strength or agility, but as he stopped concentrating he could feel the enervation biting into his stolen organs.
He knew enough about the basics to see they were holding themselves right, though they were concentrating too much on defence.
Ione fired again and again, concentrating on one wall now, mauling it to smithereens.
They were all silent, concentrating on the implications Euru and Nowak raised.
It was busy concentrating on collecting the images from its external sensitive cells.