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condense /kənˈdɛns /verb1 [with object] Make (something) denser or more concentrated: the morning play on Saturday was condensed into a half-hour package...- Where the Davis Cup is played over the course of four rounds, home and away, the Fed Cup condenses its semi-final and final rounds into one week.
- Each two-decade period is assigned an overarching theme giving it a broad historical overview while serving to limit and condense the curatorial scope.
- Major League Baseball has joined with an internet service to record, digitize and condense a typical three hour game to 30 minutes.
1.1Express (written or spoken material) in fewer words; make concise: he condensed the three plays into a three-hour drama...- True, some of this material could have been condensed.
- Knowledge of the Vedas has been condensed into 555 short lines.
- This is condensed from an essay Siegel wrote for the New York Observer.
Synonyms abridge, shorten, cut, abbreviate, compress, compact, contract, telescope; summarize, synopsize, precis, abstract, digest, encapsulate; truncate, curtail rare epitomize abridged, shortened, cut, cut-down, concise, contracted, compressed, abbreviated, reduced, truncated; summarized, summary, abstracted, precised, synoptic, synopsized, outline, bare-bones, thumbnail informal potted, slimmed down 2Change or cause to change from a gas or vapour to a liquid: [no object]: the moisture vapour in the air condenses into droplets of water [with object]: the cold air was condensing his breath...- Then, while still contracting, the star cools through yellow and red-hot, and the protyle condenses into progressively heavier elements.
- This creates enough pressure to force the ammonia vapour into another vessel, where it condenses into a liquid.
- What results is a super-saturated vapour, which cools to near ambient temperatures in a few milliseconds and condenses into the aerosol particles that make up the smoke.
Synonyms precipitate, liquefy, become liquid, deliquesce, liquidize Derivatives condensable /ˌkɒnˈdɛnsəb(ə)l / adjective ...- First, the work - if it contains inspiration, glee, sorrow; if it is complex, actually provocative or disturbing - is not easily condensable to those three paragraphs allowed the script-reader.
- But they also get booked because they're quick with the quote: they help to feed an omnivorous media machine hungry for thoughts condensable into a dozen words that will make one side or another angry.
- As shown in Table 1, the refractory lithophiles and siderophiles constitute about 1 per cent by mass of the total condensable material (rock + ices) in the solar nebula.
Origin Late Middle English: from Old French condenser or Latin condensare, from condensus 'very thick', from con- 'completely' + densus 'dense'. Rhymes cense, commence, common sense, dense, dispense, expense, fence, hence, Hortense, immense, offence (US offense), pence, prepense, pretence (US pretense), sense, spence, suspense, tense, thence, whence |