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Cogitate vs Concentrate - What's the difference?

cogitate | concentrate |

As verbs the difference between cogitate and concentrate

is that cogitate is to meditate, to ponder, to think deeply while concentrate is .

cogitate

English

Verb

(cogitat)
  • To meditate, to ponder, to think deeply.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • He that calleth a thing into his mind, whether by impression or recordation, cogitateth and considereth, and he that employeth the faculty of his fancy also cogitateth.
  • * 1953 ,
  • Think, ladies! Cogitate ! Sharpen up the edges of your wit.
  • To consider, to devise.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    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.