{
    "term": "concentrate",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "concentrate",
            "heSheIt": "concentrates"
        },
        "pastSimple": "concentrated",
        "pastParticiple": "concentrated",
        "ingForm": "concentrating"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to give all your attention to something and not think about anything else",
            "sensetop": "concentrate on somethingconcentrate on doing somethingconcentrate somethingconcentrate something on somethingconcentrate something on doing something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I can't concentrate with all that noise going on."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I struggled to concentrate on my job because I was worried about my son.",
                    "contextForm": "concentrate on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He tried to concentrate on reading his book but couldn't.",
                    "contextForm": "concentrate on doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nothing **concentrates the mind** better than the knowledge that you could die tomorrow *(= it makes you think very clearly)*.",
                    "contextForm": "concentrate something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "After 1926 she concentrated her energies on her medical practice.",
                    "contextForm": "concentrate something on something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I decided to **concentrate** all **my efforts** on finding somewhere to live.",
                    "contextForm": "concentrate something on doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I tried to work but I found I couldn't concentrate."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I was tired and couldn't concentrate properly."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was sitting at his desk concentrating hard."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She tried to concentrate, but her thoughts kept drifting back to the day before."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We were told to concentrate on a black dot in the middle of the screen."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're concentrating even harder on giving quality service this year."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["hard", "intensely", "intently"],
                "verb + concentrate": ["be unable to", "cannot", "be difficult to"],
                "preposition": ["on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to bring something together in one place",
            "sensetop": "concentrate something + adv./prep.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Power is largely concentrated in the hands of a small elite."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We need to concentrate resources on the most run-down areas."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fighting was concentrated around the towns to the north."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Never concentrate the heat in one place for too long."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These jobs are disproportionately concentrated in the service sector."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Their client list is heavily concentrated in Europe."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Singapore has a much smaller and more geographically concentrated population than Australia."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Most of the country's industry is concentrated in the north."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to increase the strength of a substance by reducing its volume, for example by boiling it",
            "sensetop": "concentrate something",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": [],
            "synonyms": "reduce"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnsntreɪt/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrate__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnsntreɪts/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrates__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnsntreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrated__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒnsntreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrating__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnsntreɪt/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrate__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnsntreɪts/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrates__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnsntreɪtɪd/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrated__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːnsntreɪtɪŋ/",
                "audio": "xc/concentrate/xconcentrating__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘bring towards a centre’): Latinized form of concentre, fromcon- ‘together’ + centrum ‘centre’ or from French concentrer ‘to concentrate’. Sense (1) dates from the early 20th cent."
}