English

Alternative forms

• concenter (US)

Verb

concentre ‎(third-person singular simple present concentres, present participle concentring, simple past and past participle concentred)

1. (British, intransitive, rare) To come together at a common centre.
   • 17th–18th century (reprinted 1850), William Beveridge, “The Sacerdotal Benediction in the Name of the Trinity”, reprinted in Twenty-six Sermons on Various Subjects Selected from the Works of the Right Rev. William Beveridge, D.D. Lord Bishop of St. Asaph, London: Printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, OCLC 697897263, page 80:

     Hence, […] whatsoever perfections or properties (except such as are purely personal) are attributed to any of these divine Persons, are the same in all, and may equally be attributed to every one; they being all and every one the same God, in whom all perfections concentre, or, rather, who is all perfection itself.

   • 1804, William Clark, The Journals of Lewis and Clark:

     Capt. Lewis walked on Shore above this Creek and discovered a high moun from the top of which he had an extensive view, 3 paths Concentering at the moun

2. (British, transitive, rare) To bring together at a common centre.
3. (British, transitive, rare) To condense, to concentrate.
   • 1805, Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme and A. Constable and Co. Edinburgh by James Ballantyne, Edinburgh, OCLC 670135565, 6th canto:

     Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land! […] The wretch, concentred all in self, / Living, shall forfeit fair renown, / And, doubly dying, shall go down / To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, / Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

   • 1829, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Devereux, London: Henry Colburn, OCLC 27724491:

     […] the more we limit and concentre happiness, the more certain, I think, we are of securing it; they who widen the circle encroach upon the boundaries of danger; […]

Derived terms

• concentric

Anagrams

• concenter
• connecter
• reconnect

French

Verb

concentre

1. first-person singular present indicative of concentrer
2. third-person singular present indicative of concentrer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of concentrer
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of concentrer
5. second-person singular imperative of concentrer

Anagrams

• connecter

Portuguese

Verb

concentre

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of concentrar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of concentrar
3. first-person singular imperative of concentrar
4. third-person singular imperative of concentrar

Spanish

Verb

concentre

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of concentrar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of concentrar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of concentrar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of concentrar.