concentratedcon‧cen‧trat‧ed /ˈkɒnsəntreɪtɪd $ ˈkɑːn-/ adjective - Solutions to these problems will take time and concentrated effort.
- Business became concentrated and competing centres find it hard to become established.
- By 1880 the result was already a highly concentrated and mechanized industrial system.
- Each successive tide dissolves the salt and deposits more, forming pools of highly concentrated saline.
- In backwashing and regenerating the base-exchange medium, a fairly concentrated solution containing sodium and calcium chlorides is produced.
- Instead of being human and down-to-earth, faith becomes a fragrant, concentrated essence.
- Now they even have four times concentrated products so you need only a quarter of the measure.
- She explained that animals in the wild don't get enough energy, and sugar is concentrated energy.
- The total removal rate shot up to 27 percent an hour, depositing the sulphur in a concentrated drizzle.
ADVERB► more· It thus represents the freezing-point curve of increasingly more concentrated solutions of salt in water.· The difficulty of the music forced a more concentrated performance, which paid wonderful dividends in excitement and intensity.· However oxygen, rather than air, is used to give a more concentrated syn-gas.· Final-year units also treat general theoretical and practical concerns but at a more advanced level, and in a more concentrated manner.· But it is only in the second half of 1908 that Picasso turned to a more concentrated study of Cézanne.· Many experts, he said, believed that we should aim for a smaller, more concentrated and more efficient network.
NOUN► effort· This is an astonishing output from a single individual if detailed concentrated effort was put into all of them.
► form· Protect your hands with rubber gloves because it can be a dangerous substance in such a concentrated form.· Possibly some one assumed it was a concentrated form of oxygen, and therefore invigorating.· In its concentrated form it is hazardous to handle especially as many commercial formulations are stabilised with caustic soda.
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