CONCENTRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concentre mean? 

• CONCENTRE (verb)
  The verb CONCENTRE has 1 sense:

1. bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

  Familiarity information: CONCENTRE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCENTRE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

concenter; concentre; focalise; focalize; focus

Hypernyms (to "concentre" is one way to...):

adjust; align; aline; line up (place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "concentre"):

refocus (focus anew)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Domain region:

Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

 Context examples 

They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)