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concentrate (카-슨-트레이트 (강세: 카))to focus all your attention or effort on a particular activity, subject, or problem

Part of speech: VERB

Definition: to focus all your attention or effort on a particular activity, subject, or problem

Pronunciation (IPA): /ˈkɑːnsntreɪt/

Korean meaning: 특정 활동이나 주제, 문제에 모든 주의나 노력을 집중하다

Korean pronunciation: 카-슨-트레이트 (강세: 카)

Example Sentences

  • I can't concentrate when my neighbor's dog is singing opera at 3 AM.
  • My concentration is so bad, I get distracted by my own thoughts.
  • Students need to concentrate during the CSAT to achieve good results.

concentrate

VERB

//ˈkɑːnsntreɪt//

to focus all your attention or effort on a particular activity, subject, or problem

concentrate concept
💡 Concept

Focus all attention on studying

concentrate rhyme
🎵 Rhyme

Concentrate to penetrate, then demonstrate!

🎤Pronunciation

🇺🇸 US/ˈkɑːnsntreɪt/
🇬🇧 UK/ˈkɒnsntreɪt/

🌳Etymology

Prefixcon--
Rootcentr
Suffix--ate

Origin

라틴어 'concentratus'에서 유래되었으며, 'con-(함께)'와 'centrum(중심)'이 결합된 형태입니다.

🎵Rhyme

celebratedemonstrategeneratepenetrate
celebrate
demonstrate
generate
penetrate

🔗Collocations

fruit concentrate

This juice is made from fruit concentrate.

concentrate on

Please concentrate on the lesson.

concentrate hard

She concentrated hard on solving the problem.

concentrate efforts

We should concentrate our efforts on this project.

highly concentrated

This is a highly concentrated solution.

📝Examples

😄 Fun example

I can't concentrate when my neighbor's dog is singing opera at 3 AM.

😄 Fun example

My concentration is so bad, I get distracted by my own thoughts.

Students need to concentrate during the CSAT to achieve good results.

The company decided to concentrate its resources on developing new technology.

Most of the country's wealth is concentrated in the capital city.

📚Related Words

Synonyms

focuscenterconvergegatherconsolidate

Antonyms

scatterdispersedistract

Related

attentionmeditationintensitycentralizeabsorb

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