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- pronunciation:
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- parts of speech:
- verb, noun
- features:
- Word Parts
| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
concentrates, concentrating, concentrated |
| definition 1: |
When you concentrate on something, you give it all of your attention. When you are concentrating on something, you can't think about other things.
Max tried to concentrate on his homework, but it was hard when his little brother kept making noises like a dog.My mom asked us to be quiet for a bit so she could concentrate on her recipe. She didn't want to make any mistakes making her pie.- synonyms:
- focus
- similar words:
- attend, fasten on
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| definition 2: |
When you concentrate your attention on something, you give all of your attention to that one thing.
The teacher told us to concentrate our attention on what she was writing on the board.- synonyms:
- direct, focus
- similar words:
- aim, fasten, fix
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| definition 3: |
When you concentrate something, you make it stronger or more pure by taking away things that are not necessary to it.
If you boil this sauce for a long time, it will concentrate and get thick.- similar words:
- purify, reduce, refine, thicken
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| related words: |
compact, compress, crowd, huddle, meet |
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
A concentrate is something in concentrated form, such as a fruit juice concentrate. When people concentrate juice, much of the water that is naturally in the juice is taken away.
We don't have any fresh juice, but we have some concentrate in the freezer. You will need to add water to it.- synonyms:
- extract
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| derivations: |
concentrative (adj.), concentrator (n.) |
The word concentrate
contains the following parts:
con-
Latin
prefix
that means with, together
  More about this word part:
The prefix con-
is an assimilated form of com- used before roots beginning with c, d, f, g, j, n, s, t, and v. See com-. Note: con-
is frequently an intensive prefix, as in " conceive
."
Example words:
conceive, concentrate, conclude, conclusion, conduct, confer, conference, confide, confidence, confident, confine, confirm, conflict, conform, confuse, confusion, congratulate, congregate, congress, conjunction, connect, consonant, conspiracy, constant, construct, construction, contact, contain, container, context, continue, contract, convince, convict, conviction, inconceivable, inconspicuous, consequence
centr, centri, centro
Greek
root
that means center
Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, administrator, advocate, affiliate, aggravate, agitate, alternate, animate, annihilate, assimilate, associate, circulate, collaborate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, cooperate, coordinate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, emigrate, enunciate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, generate, graduate, illuminate, illustrate, incorporate, interrogate, irrigate, liberate, locate, narrate, navigate, nominate, operate, originate, participate, populate, radiate, regulate, rotate, segregate, terminate
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