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UK
/kˈɒnsəntɹˌeɪt/
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[ US /ˈkɑnsənˌtɹeɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑnsənˌtɹeɪt/ ]
VERB
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cook until very little liquid is left
The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time -
make more concise
condense the contents of a book into a summary -
direct one's attention on something
Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies -
be cooked until very little liquid is left
The sauce should reduce to one cup -
make central
The Russian government centralized the distribution of food -
compress or concentrate
Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan -
make denser, stronger, or purer
concentrate juice -
draw together or meet in one common center
These groups concentrate in the inner cities
NOUN
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a concentrated example of something
the concentrate of contemporary despair - the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
- a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water
How To Use concentrate In A Sentence
- First, it moves a great deal of diffuse wealth and concentrates it in the hands of the war industry.
- After a brief excursion into drama, he concentrated on his main interest, which was poetry.
- You must avoid applying concentrated materials to the tree at gallonages that allow the material to dribble to the lower surface of the fruit.
- Still, for the medium term, either the government needs to scutinize refinery activity much more closely, adopt new regulatory authority and aggressively enforce antitrust laws, or it must intervene to deconcentrate the market. Robert Weissman: What To Do About the Price of Oil
- One might be optimistic and say that, given it's their job to judge a book by the words on the page rather than by the stushie surrounding it, one can expect them to be more concentrated in the category of detached shruggers; one can expect a higher standard of scrutiny, surely. Hype Hype Hoorah!
- The Guidance concentrates on the organizational status of internal audit and the objectivity of internal auditors in achieving the requisite independence.
- Part 6 of the Shadow of the Bat (27: 00) takes another thoroughly extensive featurette that concentrates on dissecting the "toyetic" nature of DVD Talk
- Now that Gonzalez has rejected the Yankees, perhaps he can concentrate on turning a disappointing season into another banner year.
- Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%. Tap Your Inner Buffett
- It was hard to believe that something so simple could be so tasty, a creamy potato flavour that was concentrated by long slow cooking in olive oil, seasoned with the sweet tang of long cooked onions all morticed with beaten eggs. At My Table
