Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 99
Concentrate (v. t.) To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute.
Spirit of vinegar concentrated and reduced to its greatest strength. -- Arbuthnot.
Syn: To combine; to condense; to consolidate.
Concentrate (v. i.) 集中；聚集，集結 [Q]；全神貫注；全力以赴 [（+on/ upon）] To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.
Concentrate (n.) The desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore [syn: dressed ore, concentrate].
Concentrate (n.) 濃縮物；濃縮液 [C] [U] A concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water.
Concentrate (n.) A concentrated example of something; "the concentrate of contemporary despair".
Concentrate (v.) Make denser, stronger, or purer; "concentrate juice".
Concentrate (v.) Direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet].
Concentrate (v.) Make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" [syn: centralize, centralise, concentrate] [ant: decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate].
Concentrate (v.) Make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate].
Concentrate (v.) Draw together or meet in one common center; "These groups concentrate in the inner cities".
Concentrate (v.) Compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" [syn: condense, concentrate, contract].
Concentrate (v.) Be cooked until very little liquid is left; "The sauce should reduce to one cup" [syn: boil down, reduce, decoct, concentrate].
Concentrate (v.) Cook until very little liquid is left; "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time" [syn: reduce, boil down, concentrate].
Concentrated (a.) 集中的；【化】濃縮的；全神貫注的，全力以赴的；concentrate 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Having a high density of (the indicated substance); as, a narrow thread of concentrated ore.
Note: [Narrower terms: undiluted (vs. diluted)].
Concentrated (a.) Gathered together or made less diffuse; as, their concentrated efforts; his concentrated attention. Opposite of distributed or diffused.
Note: [Narrower terms: bunched, bunchy, clustered; centered, centred, centralized, focused; undivided] [Also See: compact.].
Concentrated (a.) Intense; in an extreme degree; -- of mental phenomena; as, her concentrated passion held them at bay.
Concentrated (a.) Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance. Opposite of dilute or unsaturated.
Note: [Narrower terms: supersaturated].
Syn: saturated.
Concentrated (a.) Reduced to a stronger or more concentrated form; as, concentrated sulfuric acid. Opposite of diluted.
Syn: condensed.
Concentrated (a.) Characterized by intensity; especially when imposed from without; -- of actions; as, concentrated study.
Syn: intensive.
Concentrated (a.) Characterized by mental concentration.
Syn: intent.
Concentrated (a.) Gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" [ant: distributed].
Concentrated (a.) Of or relating to a solution whose dilution has been reduced.
Concentrated (a.) Intensely focused; "her concentrated passion held them at bay".
Concentrated (a.) (Of light) Transmitted directly from a pointed light source [syn: hard, concentrated] [ant: diffuse, diffused, soft].
Concentrated (a.) Being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature; unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution" [syn: saturated, concentrated] [ant: unsaturated].
Concentration (n.) 集中 [C] [U]；專心，專注 [U]； 濃縮；濃度 [U] [S1] The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
Concentration of the lunar beams. -- Boyle.
Intense concetration of thought. -- Sir J. Herschel.
Concentration (n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
The acid acquires a higher degree of concentration. -- Knight.
Concentration (n.) (Metal.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
Compare: Dephlegmation
Dephlegmation (n.) (Chem.) The operation of separating water from spirits and acids, by evaporation or repeated distillation; -- called also concentration, especially when acids are the subject of it. [Obs.]
Concentration (n.) The strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume.
Concentration (n.) The spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution].
Concentration (n.) Strengthening the concentration (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing diluting material [ant: dilution].
Concentration (n.) Increase in density.
Concentration (n.) Complete attention; intense mental effort [syn: concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion].
Concentration (n.) Bringing together military forces.
Concentration (n.) Great and constant diligence and attention [syn: assiduity, assiduousness, concentration].
Concentrative (a.) 集中的；專心的；濃縮的 Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.
A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Concentrativeness (n.) The quality of concentrating.
Concentrativeness (n.) (Phren.) The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers. -- Combe.
Concentrator (n.) (Mining) 使集中的人；濃縮器；選礦機；匯集器；集訊機；集中器；集線器 An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. -- Knight.
Concentrator (n.) (Mining) (Firearms) A frame or ring of wire or hard paper fitting into the cartridge case used in some shotguns, and holding the shot together when discharged, to secure close shooting; also, a device for slightly narrowing the bore at the muzzle for the same purpose. Concentric
Concentrator, () A device that combines the data streams from many simultaneously active inputs into one shared channel in such a way that the streams can be separated after transmission. The concentrator's output bandwidth must be at least as great as the total bandwidth of all simultaneously active inputs. A concentrator is one kind of multiplexing device.
For example, A concentrator may be used to connect 24 2400 bps TTYs to a host via a 57600 bps channel. (2000-03-01)
Concentric (a.) Alt. of Concentrical.
Concentrical (a.) 共中心的；集中的 Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another.
Concentric circles upon the surface of the water. -- Sir I. Newton.
Concentrical rings like those of an onion. -- Arbuthnot.
Concentric (n.) That which has a common center with something else.
Its pecular relations to its concentrics. -- Coleridge.
Concentric (a.) 【數】同中心的 Having a common center; "concentric rings" [syn: concentric, concentrical, homocentric] [ant: eccentric, nonconcentric].
Concentrically (adv.) In a concentric manner.
Concentricity (n.) 共中心集中；【機】同心度 The state of being concentric.
Concentricity (n.) The quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) [ant: eccentricity].
Concentual (a.) Possessing harmony; accordant. [R.] -- Warton.
Concept (n.) 概念，觀念，思想 [C] An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
The words conception, concept, notion, should be limited to the thought of what can not be represented in the imagination; as, the thought suggested by a general term. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Concept (n.) An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances [syn: concept, conception, construct] [ant: misconception].
Conceptacle (n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle. [Obs.] -- Woodward.
Conceptacle (n.) (Bot.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.
Compare: Pericarp
Pericarp (n.)【植】果被；果皮 [Botany] The part of a fruit formed from the wall of the ripened ovary.
‘Fruits had the pericarps removed and the seeds were stratified.’
Conceptacle (n.) (Bot.) 【植】生殖窠（藻）；產孢子器（真菌） One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.
Conceptibility (n.) The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. -- Cudworth.
Conceptible (a.) Capable of being conceived; conceivable. -- Sir M. Hale.
Conception (n.) 概念，觀念；想法 [U] [C] [（+of）]；設想；構想；概念的形成 [U] The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
I will greaty multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. -- Gen. iii. 16.
Conception (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning.
Joy had the like conception in our eyes. -- Shak.
Conception (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
Under the article of conception, I shall confine myself to that faculty whose province it is to enable us to form a notion of our past sensations, or of the objects of sense that we have formerly perceived. -- Stewart.
Conception (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.
Conception consists in a conscious act of the understanding, bringing any given object or impression into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. -- Coleridge.
Conception (n.) The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.
He [Herodotus] says that the sun draws or attracts the water; a metaphorical term obviously intended to denote some more general and abstract conception than that of the visible operation which the word primarily signifies. -- Whewell.
Conception (n.) Idea; purpose; design.
Note this dangerous conception. -- Shak.
Conception (n.) Conceit; affected sentiment or thought. [Obs.]
He . . . is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticism. -- Dryden.
Syn: Idea; notion; perception; apprehemsion; comprehension.
Conception (n.) An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances [syn: concept, conception, construct] [ant: misconception].
Conception (n.) The act of becoming pregnant; fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon.
Conception (n.) The event that occurred at the beginning of something; "from its creation the plan was doomed to failure" [syn: creation, conception].
Conception (n.) The creation of something in the mind [syn: invention, innovation, excogitation, conception, design].
Conceptional (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Conceptional (a.) Being of the nature of a notion or concept; "a plan abstract and conceptional"; "to improve notional comprehension"; "a notional response to the question" [syn: conceptional, ideational, notional].
Conceptionalist (n.) A conceptualist.
Conceptious (a.) Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Conceptive (a.) Capable of conceiving. -- Sir T. Browne
Conceptive (a.) Capable of conceiving [syn: conceptive, impregnable].
Conceptual (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Conceptualism (n.) (Metaph.) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects. -- Stewart.
Conceptualism (n.) The doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application.
Conceptualist (n.) (Metaph.) One who maintains the theory of conceptualism. -- Stewart.
Compare: Going
Going (p. pr. of Go.) Specif.: That goes; in existence; available for present use or enjoyment; current; obtainable; also, moving; working; in operation; departing; as, he is of the brightest men going; going prices or rate.
Going (p. pr. of Go.) Specif.: Carrying on its ordinary business; conducting business, or carried on, with an indefinite prospect of continuance; -- chiefly used in the phrases.
A going business, Concern, etc.
Going (p. pr. of Go.) Specif.: Of or pertaining to a going business or concern; as, the going value of a company. Goiter
Concerned (imp. & p. p.) of Concern.
Concerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concern.
Concern (v. t.) （不用被動式）關於；涉及，關係到；影響到 To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ. -- Acts xxviii. 31.
Our wars with France have affected us in our most tender interests, and concerned us more than those with any other nation. -- Addison.
It much concerns a preacher first to learn The genius of his audience and their turn. -- Dodsley.
Ignorant, so far as the usual instruction is concerned. -- J. F. Cooper.
Concern (v. t.) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
They think themselves out the reach of Providence, and no longer concerned to solicit his favor. -- Rogers.
Concern (v. i.) To be of importance. [Obs.]
Which to deny concerns more than avails. -- Shak.
Concern (n.) 關心的事，重要的事[C]；關係；利害關係 [C] [U] [（+with/ in）] That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
The private concerns of fanilies. -- Addison.
Concern (n.) That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
Mysterious secrets of a high concern. -- Roscommon.
Concern (n.) Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
O Marcia, let me hope thy kind concerns And gentle wishes follow me to battle. -- Addison.
Concern (n.) (Com.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.
The whole concern, All connected with a particular affair or business.
Syn: Care; anxiety; solicitude; interest; regard; business; affair; matter; moment. See Care.
Concern (n.) Something that interests you because it is important or affects you; "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern".
Concern (n.) An anxious feeling; "care had aged him"; "they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction" [syn: concern, care, fear].
Concern (n.) A feeling of sympathy for someone or something; "She felt strong concern for those less fortunate" [ant: unconcern].
Concern (n.) Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness; "New York traffic is a constant concern"; "it's a major worry" [syn: concern, worry, headache, vexation].
Concern (n.) A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation].
Concern (v.) Be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments" [syn: refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with].
Concern (v.) Be on the mind of; "I worry about the second Germanic consonant shift" [syn: concern, interest, occupy, worry].
Concerned (a.) 掛慮的，擔心的，不安的 [（+about/ for/ over）]；有關的；參與的 [（+in）] Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
Concerned (a.) Feeling or showing worry or solicitude; "concerned parents of youthful offenders"; "was concerned about the future"; "we feel concerned about accomplishing the task at hand"; "greatly concerned not to disappoint a small child" [ant: unconcerned].
Concerned (a.) Involved in or affected by or having a claim to or share in; "a memorandum to those concerned"; "an enterprise in which three men are concerned"; "factors concerned in the rise and fall of epidemics"; "the interested parties met to discuss the business" [syn: concerned, interested].
Concerned (a.) Culpably involved; "all those concerned in the bribery case have been identified"; "named three officials implicated in the plot"; "an innocent person implicated by circumstances in a crime" [syn: implicated, concerned].
Concernedly (adv.) 掛念地；擔心地；憂慮地 In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
Concernedly (adv.) In a manner showing concern; "`Are you all right,' he asked concernedly".
Concerning (prep.) 關於；concern 的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards.
I have accepted thee concerning this thing. -- Gen. xix. 21.
The Lord hath spoken good concerning Israel. -- Num. x. 29.
Concerning (a.) Important. [Archaic]
So great and so concerning truth. -- South.
Concerning (n.) That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest. "Our everlasting concernments." -- I. Watts.
To mix with thy concernments I desist. -- Milton.
Concerning (n.) Importance; moment; consequence.
Let every action of concernment to begun with prayer. -- Jer. Taylor.
Concerning (n.) Concern; participation; interposition.
He married a daughter to the earl without any other approbation of her father or concernment in it, than suffering him and her come into his presence. -- Clarendon.
Concerning (n.) Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.
While they are so eager to destroy the fame of others, their ambition is manifest in their concernment. -- Dryden.
Concerted (imp. & p. p.) of Concert.
Concerting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concert.
Concert (v. t.) 商議，協同安排，使協調 To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
It was concerted to begin the siege in March. -- Bp. Burnet.
Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.
A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign. -- Burke.
Concert (v. i.) 協力，協調，一致行動 To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. -- Bp. Burnet
Concert (n.) 音樂會，演奏會 [C]；一致，和諧，協調，一致行動 [U] Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
All these discontents, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication and concert. -- Swift.
Concert (n.) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
Let us in concert to the season sing. -- Cowper.
Concert (n.) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. -- Shak.
And boding screech owls make the concert full. -- Shak.
Concert pitch. See under Pitch.
Concert (n.) A performance of music by players or singers not involving theatrical staging.
Concert (v.) Contrive (a plan) by mutual agreement.
Concert (v.) Settle by agreement; "concert one's differences".
Concert, () Communications for North Carolina Education, Research and Technology (network).
Concert (n.) [ C ] (A2) 音樂會 A performance of music by one or more musicians or singers.
// A pop/ classical concert .
// A school concert.
Concertante (n.) (Mus.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.
Concertation (n.) Strife; contention. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Concertative (a.) Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] -- Bailey.
Concerted (a.) Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.
Concerted piece (Mus.), A composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.
Concerted (a.) Involving the joint activity of two or more; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong wind"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" [syn: concerted, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative].
Concertina (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
Concertina (n.) Coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle.
Concertina (n.) Free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds.
Concertina (v.) Collapse like a concertina.
Concertino (n.) (Mus.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.
Concertion (n.) Act of concerting; adjustment. [R.] -- Young.
Concertmeister (n.) (Mus.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.
Concertos (n. pl. ) of Concerto.
Concerto (n.) (Mus.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill. Concert of Europe
Concerto (n.) A composition for orchestra and a soloist.
Concession (n.) 讓步，承認，特許 The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
By mutual concession the business was adjusted. -- Hallam.
Concession (n.) A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.
This is therefore a concession, that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. -- Sharp.
When a lover becomes satisfied by small compliances without further pursuits, then expect to find popular assemblies content with small concessions. -- Swift. Concessionaire
Concession (n.) A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business; "he got the beer concession at the ball park" [syn: concession, grant].
Concession (n.) The act of conceding or yielding [syn: concession, conceding, yielding].
Concession (n.) A point conceded or yielded; "they won all the concessions they asked for".
Concession, () A grant. This word is frequently used in this sense when applied to grants made by the French and Spanish governments in Louisiana.
Concessional (a.) 讓步的，容許的，優惠的 Concessionary.
Concessionary (a.) （對學生、老少或失業人士的）價格優惠，減價 A concessionary price is a special price which is lower than the normal one and which is often given to old people, students, and the unemployed.
// There are concessionary rates for students.
Concessionary (a.) Of or pertaining to a concession. -- n.; pl. -ries. A concessionaire.
Concessionist (n.) One who favors concession.
Concessive (a.) Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction. -- Lowth.
Concessive (a.) Of or pertaining to concession.
Concessively (adv.) By way of concession.
Concessory (a.) Conceding; permissive.
Concettism (n.) The use of concetti or affected conceits. [R.] -- C. Kingsley.
Concetti (n. pl. ) of Concetto.
Concetto (n.) Affected wit; a conceit. -- Chesterfield.
Conch (n.) (Zool.) 海螺；海神的響螺；半圓形屋頂；耳殼 A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo. and cameo conch.
Note: The conch is sometimes used as a horn or trumpet, as in fogs at sea, or to call laborers from work.
Conch (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
Conch (n.) [Often capitalized] One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
Conch (n.) (Arch.) See Concha, n.
Conch (n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
Conch (n.) Any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip.
Concha (n.) (Arch.) The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
Concha (n.) (Anat.) The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.
Concha (n.) (Anatomy) A structure that resembles a shell in shape.
Conchal (a.) (Anat.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.
Conchifer (n.) (Zool.) One of the Conchifera.
Compare: Lamellibranchia
Lamellibranchia (n. pl.) (Zool.) An earlier name for the class of Mollusca including all those that have bivalve shells, as the clams, oysters, mussels, etc., now called Pelecypoda or Bivalvia.
Note: They usually have two (rarely but one) flat, lamelliform gills on each side of the body. They have an imperfectly developed head, concealed within the {Acephala">shell, whence they are called {Acephala. Called also Conchifera, and Pelecypoda. See Bivalve.
Conchifera (n. pl.) (Zool.) That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.
Conchiferous (a.) Producing or having shells.
Conchiform (a.) Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
Conchinine (n.) See Quinidine.
Conchite (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
Conchitic (a.) Composed of shells; containing many shells.
Conchoid (n.) (Geom.) A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
Conchoidal (a.) (Min.) 貝殼狀的 Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
Conchological (a.) (Zool.) Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.
Conchologist (n.) (Zool.) 貝殼學者；介類學者 One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
Conchologist (n.) A collector and student of mollusc shells.
Conchology (n.) (Zool.) 貝類學 The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
Conchology (n.) The collection and study of mollusc shells [syn: conchology, shell collecting].
Conchometer (n.) (Zool.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.