Betekenis van concentrate In het Nederlands

• 0 to direct your attention or your efforts towards a particular activity, subject, or problem:

  • Come on, concentrate! We don't have all day to do this.

  • I can't concentrate on my work with all that noise.

  • I find running concentrates the mind (= helps me to think).

  • I'm going to concentrate on my writing for a while.

  • The company is concentrating (its resources) on developing new products.

• 1 to bring or come together in a large number or amount in one particular area:

  • Most of the country's population is concentrated in the north.

  • In the dry season, the animals tend to concentrate in the areas where there is water.

• 2 to make a liquid or substance stronger and reduce its size by removing water from it

• 3 a liquid from which some of the water has been removed:

  • fruit-juice concentrate

  • a mineral concentrate

• 4 to direct a lot of attention and thought to an activity or subject, or to direct effort toward achieving a result:

  • [ I always + adv/prep ] In her later years, she concentrated on her writing and teaching.

  • [ T ] The police are concentrating their search in the area where the child was last seen.

• 5 to bring or come together in a large number or amount in one particular area:

  • [ T ] Most of the country’s population is concentrated in the cities.

• 6 to make a substance stronger or purer by removing water or other substances

• 7 a substance from which water or other substances have been removed

• 8 to give all of your attention to one particular activity, subject, or problem:

  • concentrate on sth The corporation is selling off its restaurant chain to concentrate on its core retailing business.

  • concentrate on doing sth The new firm will concentrate on managing money for institutional investors.

  • concentrate your efforts/attention/resources on sth Many wine producers have concentrated their efforts on producing less wine, but of a higher quality.