Combine vs Concentrate - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between combine and concentrate

is that combine is to come together; to unite while concentrate is to focus one's thought or attention (on).

As verbs the difference between combine and concentrate

is that combine is to bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite while concentrate is to bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

As nouns the difference between combine and concentrate

is that combine is a combine harvester while concentrate is a substance that is in a condensed form.

As a proper noun Combine

is london Underground.

combine

English

Verb

(combin)

To bring (two or more things or activities) together; to unite.

* (John Dryden)

You with your foes combine , / And seem your own destruction to design.

* Sir (Walter Scott)

So sweet did harp and voice combine .

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To have two or more things or properties that function together.

Joe combines the intelligence of a rock with the honesty of a politician.

To come together; to unite.

two substances that easily combine

(card games) In the game of casino, to play a card which will take two or more cards whose aggregate number of pips equals those of the card played.

(obsolete) To bind; to hold by a moral tie.

* (William Shakespeare)

I am combined by a sacred vow.

Derived terms

* combination * combinable * combinatory * combined * recombine

Synonyms

* fuse * merge * unite

Antonyms

* divide * separate * disunite

Noun

(en noun)

A combine harvester

We can't finish harvesting because our combine is stuck in the mud.

A combination

# Especially, a joint enterprise of whatever legal form for a purpose of business or in any way promoting the interests of the participants, sometimes with monopolistic intentions.

The telecom companies were accused of having formed an illegal combine in order to hike up the network charges.

# An industrial conglomeration in a socialist country, particularly in the former .

concentrate

English

Verb

(concentrat)

(ambitransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

to concentrate rays of light into a focus

to concentrate the attention

Let me concentrate !

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 (qualifier, as opposed to 'dilute').

to concentrate acid by evaporation

to concentrate by washing

To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.

Population tends to concentrate in cities.

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To focus one's thought or attention (on).

Derived terms

* concentrated

Noun

(en noun)

A substance that is in a condensed form.