Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To direct toward or come together at a common center.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To draw or direct to a common center; bring together; concentrate; center; focus.
- To converge to or meet in a common center; combine or conjoin in one object; center; focus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To draw or direct to a common center; to bring together at a focus or point, as two or more lines; to concentrate.
- intransitive verb To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb American Alternative spelling of
concentre .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is certain he had a way of bringing it into less form for the many sudden causes he had to do with in the streets; but how he contrived to correct, sweeten, concenter, and qualify it — I vex not my spirit with the inquiry.
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Let my Views concenter, and terminate in one focus, in one Point, a great, useful, lawyer virtuous Lawyer.
John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961
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As the attributes of the poets of the kosmos concenter in the real body, and in the pleasure of things, they possess the superiority of genuineness over all fiction and romance.
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Something of this sort seemed to be indispensable, in order, amid so vast a fluctuation of passions and opinions, to concenter my thoughts; to ballast my conduct; to preserve me from being blown about by every wind of fashionable doctrine.
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It is certain he had a way of bringing it into less form for the many sudden causes he had to do with in the streets; but how he contrived to correct, sweeten, concenter, and qualify it -- I vex not my spirit with the inquiry.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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All these tremendous results concenter upon the single condition of being holy.
Life of Rev. A. Crooks, A. M. Elizabeth Willits Crooks 1875
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Supposing it were impossible to concenter in one great museum the whole of these things, where should you prefer to draw the line?
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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I have about thirty lines to conclude the first book. this however must be deferred till I have borrowed certain books, as those thirty lines must concenter much Bardic & historical knowledge.
Letter 203 1797
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Judas, the apostacy of Julian, and the cruelty of Nero, did all concenter in him.
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His learned and pious works, (wherein all the excellencies of the primitive and ancient fathers seem to concenter) are a commentary on the
qms commented on the word concenter
A teacher, a coach or a mentor
Converts the doubter to assenter.
The team that she leads
Cooperatively heeds
So eccentric courses concenter.
September 8, 2015