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concentrated

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con·cen·trate  (knsn-trt)
v. con·cen·trat·ed, con·cen·trat·ing, con·cen·trates
v.tr.
1.
a. To direct or draw toward a common center; focus.
b. To bring into one main body: Authority was concentrated in the president.
2. To make (a solution or mixture) less dilute.
v.intr.
1.
a. To converge toward or meet in a common center.
b. To increase by degree; gather: "Dusk began to concentrate into full night" (Anthony Hyde).
2. To direct one's thoughts or attention: We concentrated on the task before us.
n.
A product that has been concentrated, especially a food that has been reduced in volume or bulk by the removal of liquid: pineapple juice concentrate.

[From concenter.]

concen·trative adj.
concen·trative·ly adv.
concen·trator n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.concentrated - gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore"
compact - closely and firmly united or packed together; "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
distributed - spread out or scattered about or divided up
2.concentrated - of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced
undiluted - not diluted; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain"
3.concentrated - intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay"
intense - possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense"
4.concentrated - (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source
5.concentrated - being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution"

concentrated
adjective
1. condensed, rich, undiluted, reduced, evaporated, thickened, boiled down Sweeten dishes with honey or concentrated apple juice.
2. intense, hard, deep, intensive, all-out (informal) She makes a concentrated effort to keep her feet on the ground.
Translations
concentrated [ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪtʃd] ADJconcentrado
concentrated [ˈkɒnsəntreɪtɪd] adj
(= not diluted) [liquid, juice] → concentré(e)
(= concerted) [effort] → intense
concentrated
adj
liquid, substancekonzentriert; in a concentrated formin konzentrierter Form; concentrated orange juiceOrangensaftkonzentrat nt
(= concerted) effort, attackkonzentriert
concentrated [ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪtɪd] adj (juice, attack) → concentrato/a
concentrated [ˈkɒnsənˌtreɪtɪd] adj (juice, attack) → concentrato/a


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But as if this vast local power in the tendinous tail were not enough, the whole bulk of the leviathan is knit over with a warp and woof of muscular fibres and filaments, which passing on either side the loins and running down into the flukes, insensibly blend with them, and largely contribute to their might; so that in the tail the confluent measureless force of the whole whale seems concentrated to a point.
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