concentre
/kɒnˈsɛntə
/(US concenter)
verb [with object]
1Concentrate (something) in a small space or area: the property of this country is concentred in a very few hands...
- The property of this country is absolutely concentred in a very few hands, having revenues of from half a million of guineas a year downwards.
- But his favours to three thousand were concentered in one body.
- Why do tertiary alcohols react faster with concentred hydrochloric acid than do secondary or primary alcohol?
1.1 [no object] Come together at a common centre: here the produce of this extensive territory concentres...
- Some dissatisfaction turns his meditation into what Charles Berger calls the ‘dark countersong’ of a ‘counter-sublime’, as it questions the relation between ‘concentred self’ and Other, between particular and general.
- Penn's letter, of 1683, to the Free Society of Traders, sufficiently intimates the cause of its location there, showing that Penn expected business to concentre there.
- The fury of the battle seemed to concentre there, and through the time-worn walls the shot was plunging, splintering the planks and beams, and shivering the stone foundation.
1.2 archaic Bring (two or more things) towards a common centre: a passion in which soul and body were concentred
Origin
Late 16th century: from French concentrer, from Latin con- 'together' + centrum 'centre'.
- from all angles
- from A to B
- from A to Z
- from bad to worse
- from cover to cover
- from day one
- from day to day (or hour to hour etc.)
- (from) door to door
- from farm to fork (or table)
- from first to last
- (from) go to whoa
- (from) hand to mouth
- from head to toe (or foot)
- from hence
- from hero to zero
- fromm
- from memory
- Fromm, Erich
- from nature
- from now (or then etc.) on
- from on high
- from (or out of) nowhere
- from overseas
- from pillar to post
- (from) rags to riches