concentratedadj.
/ˈkɒnsntreɪtᵻd/, /ˈkɒnsɛntreɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈkɑnsənˌtreɪdᵻd/ 1. Brought to or towards a common centre or focus; brought into a smaller space or volume; wholly directed towards one point or thing; intensified.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > concentrated into small compass
compact1430
compendiate1593
compacted1598
concentrated1652
unexpanded1664
sublimated1884
the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > [adjective]
concentrated1652
convergent1728
converging1776
corradial1825
synclinal1880
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > on single point
concentred1641
concentrated1652
concentrating1662
concentrative1725
concentrate1834
focalizing1838
society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [adjective] > concentrated
centred1805
concentrated1834
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together > gathered together > gathered or gathering to common centre
concentred1641
concentrative1725
concentrated1834
1652 K. Digby Disc. Infallibility in Relig. ix. 129 The vertue..which required to be diffused through all that vast space, is sublimed into this narrow roome: and yet againe this narrow roome, or the concentrated vertue of it, is multiplyed.
1672 R. Boyle New Exper. Flame & Air i. ix. 47 in Tracts The concentrated beams of the Sun made the Aurum fulminans go off.
1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. ii. i. 587 It [sc. the Diamond] bears the force of the strongest fires, except the concentrated solar Rays.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. lii. 449 The flame of enthusiasm..burnt with concentrated heat in [their] breasts.
1834 W. F. Napier Hist. War Peninsula IV. xiv. viii. 250 The parcelling of an army before a concentrated enemy.
1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood III. i. 1 Feeling rather more than the usual reaction so well-known to clergymen after the concentrated duties of the Sunday.
1886 J. Morley H. Martineau in Crit. Misc. III. 200 She was..full of vivid and concentrated interest in men and their doings.
1921 A. E. Byrne Official Hist. Otago Regiment 37 Swept away by the concentrated fire of Turkish machine guns.
1949 E. Bowen Heat of Day vi. 103 The concentrated indoorness of the lounge was made..greater rather than less by the number of exits.
1993 Speedway Star 13 Feb. 23/2 He says he is looking forward to a concentrated effort on the longtracks of Europe this year.
2.
a. Chemistry. Of a solution, substance, etc.: having a main component present in a large proportionate amount, esp. as a result of evaporation or other chemical treatment (cf. concentrate v. 3a). Contrasted with dilute adj. 1b.Sometimes in wider use with reference to food and drink products (cf. quots. 1850, 2006). Cf. concentrate n. 3.
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the world > matter > chemistry > physical chemistry > solutions > [adjective] > concentration
stronga1325
concentrated1689
concentrate1758
concentric1772
1689 C. Packe tr. J. R. Glauber Wks. i. 431/2 The concentrated Spirits of Salt [L. Concentrati Spiritus Salis] may bring most great advantage by concentrating the poor sort of Wine.
1748 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 45 260 It was not apprehended that a greater Degree of Cold existed any-where, than that artificial one produced..by means of concentrated Spirit of Nitre.
1772 W. Cullen Lect. Materia Medica 431 In a more concentrated state, to this astringent they [sc. acids] join a stimulant and rubifacient power.
1850 R. W. Emerson Goethe in Representative Men vii. 266 Hundreds of post-captains with transit telescope, barometer, and concentrated soup.
1873 F. Hoffmann Man. Chem. Anal. 110 Crystals of tartaric acid, when immersed in concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolve gradually without coloration.
1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) xxxvi. 289 It [sc. graphite] is not attacked by dilute acids, but concentrated nitric acid slowly converts it into a yellow solid.
1949 Paper Making (Brit. Paper & Board Makers' Assoc.) (1950) iv. 65 The hot, concentrated liquor from the evaporators is fed in at the chimney end, and..soon begins to burn to a coky mass.
2006 H. O'Neill Lullabies for Little Criminals 126 Another evening Jules sent me to a grocery store that had a special on concentrated orange juice.
b. In figurative contexts, with reference to intensity.
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1825 J. S. Thompson Course Crit. Lect. (ed. 3) xviii. 222 The odium theologicum is the most concentrated essence of animosity and rancour.
1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters IV. 379 This kind of concentrated writing needs so much solution before the reader can fairly get the good of it.
1912 M. H. Fee Locusts' Years iv. 74 She was concentrated extract of courtesy and breeding.
2000 E. Sams Songs Johannes Brahms 98 This concentrated lyricism is first tinctured by drama and then watered down by melodrama.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered pulse or circulation > [noun] > small or weak pulse
concentrated1714
concentred1739
wiriness1801
thread1899
1714 J. Purcell Treat. Cholick 157 It is carefully to be noted, that whenever the Pulse is so much concentrated, that you can scarce perceive any Motion in it, then you are never to bleed upon any account whatsoever.
1871 Med. Times & Gaz. 29 July 126/1 Yet many anurics seemed to die in syncope; and several by syncope generally having this concentrated pulse of small number.
4. Of a person: in a state of concentration; focused. Also of a person's expression, manner, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > on single idea
concentreda1651
concentrated1821
one-ideaed1825
one-idea1845
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xlviii. 27 Then calm, concentrated, and still, and slow, He lay coil'd like the boa in the wood.
1878 Rose-Belford's Canad. Monthly Dec. 706/2 To Alma she was melodramatic, exaggerated, exuberant; but to this man of finer mould, she was concentrated, quiet, and intense.
1922 Spectator (Spectator Co., N.Y.) 6 July 20/2 Other men who lack this power of concentration, this fixity of purpose, are outdistanced by the concentrated man.
1953 Boys' Life Aug. 35 It gave Bruce a peculiar sensation to see, below the innocent smile, that intense, concentrated expression Bugboy usually had.
2004 P. Lopate Waterfront (2005) viii. 118 She is concentrated, focused on the tightening sinews in her limbs, the pheromones spreading pleasure to her brain.
Derivatives
ˈconcentratedness n. concentrated quality.
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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [noun] > condition of
whole-mindedness1528
intentiveness1561
intentness1642
undistractedness1660
fascination1768
concentrativeness1823
preoccupancy1830
absorbedness1833
concentratedness1835
engrossment1838
raptness1856
fixedness1863
absorbancy1909
1835 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 2 Dec. 268 This objection of too great concentratedness goes only to establish..the inexpediency of an exclusively animal diet.
1887 A. C. Benson William Laud 200 He rather owed his strength to his concentratedness.
1992 Atlantic Feb. 73/2 It was for his concentratedness, she supposed, if such a thing could be supposed about, that she loved him.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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