Online Google Dictionary

concentrate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈkänsənˌtrāt/,
Font size:

concentrates, 3rd person singular present; concentrated, past tense; concentrated, past participle; concentrating, present participle;
  1. Focus one's attention or mental effort on a particular object or activity
    • - she couldn't concentrate on the movie
  2. Do or deal with (one particular thing) above all others
    • - Luke wants to concentrate on his film career
  3. Gather (people or things) together in numbers or in a mass to one point
    • - wealth was concentrated in concentrated in the hands of the governing elite
  4. Come together in this way
    • - troops were concentrating at the western front
  5. Increase the strength or proportion of (a substance or solution) by removing or reducing the water or any other diluting agent or by selective accumulation of atoms or molecules

Noun
  1. A substance made by removing water or other diluting agent; a concentrated form of something, esp. food
    • - apple juice concentrate
  1. dressed ore: the desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore
  2. make denser, stronger, or purer; "concentrate juice"
  3. a concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water
  4. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
  5. a concentrated example of something; "the concentrate of contemporary despair"
  6. centralize: make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
  7. A concentrate is a form of substance which has had the majority of its base component (in the case of a liquid: the solvent) removed. Typically this will be the removal of water from a solution or suspension such as the removal of water from fruit juice. ...
  8. Force concentration is the practice of concentrating a military force, so as to bring to bear such overwhelming force against a portion of an enemy force that the disparity between the two forces alone acts as a force multiplier, in favour of the concentrated forces.
  9. Concentrate (Концентрат, Konsentrat) is a never-filmed 1958 screenplay by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. The screenplay is based on Tarkovsky's year in the taiga as a member of a research expedition, prior to his enrollment in film school.
  10. A substance that is in a condensed form; , (intransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force; To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; ...
  11. (CONCENTRATES) This is the name given to the material that remains in the gold pan, rocker, sluice, etc., after washing. Concentrates are usually composed of black sands, gold and silver, but particles of platinum and a variety of other minerals could be included.
  12. (Concentrates) High energy or high protein feeds consisting primarily of the seed of the plant, but with out stems and leaves.
  13. (Concentrates) Pesticides that have a high percentage of active ingredient.
  14. (Concentrates) The component of the diet which is more energy dense with less fiber and given as supplemental feed. This includes many types of grains which can be mixed together to create a feed.
  15. (Concentrates) The product of a treatment plant in which the abundance of specific mineral species is higher than in the ore
  16. Concentrates (also called "cake" and "dairy meal") generally consist of maize meal or other energy-rich feeds such as wheat, protein supplements such as cotton oil cake or sunflower oil cake and minerals. These have been balanced to the requirements of the cows.
  17. (Concentrating) this is the process of separating milled ore into a waste stream (tailings) and a valuable mineral stream (concentrate) by the flotation operation. ...
  18. An enriched fraction of an ore after separation from other unwanted minerals.
  19. A product that is intended to be diluted with water.
  20. A fine, powdery product of the milling process containing a high percentage of valuable metal.
  21. v.  ~ (sth) (on sth/doing sth) focus (one's attention, effort, etc) exclusively and intensely on sth, not thinking about other less important things
  22. Water that contains a high concentration of salt. Concentrate discharges from desalination plants may include constituents used in pretreatment processes, in addition to the high salt concentration seawater.
  23. Water containing concentrated salts rejected by the membrane. See also "Brine".
  24. Feed grains and other processed feed materials that contain a high proportion of nutrients and are low in fiber, such as corn, oats or soybean meal.
  25. A very fine, powder-like product containing the valuable ore mineral from which most of the waste mineral has been eliminated.