Concentrate vs Tailing - What's the difference?
concentrate | tailing |
(ambitransitive) To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.
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 approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate.
* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=
, title=Internal Combustion
, chapter=2 To focus one's thought or attention (on).
The act of following someone.
(architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
(obsolete) sexual intercourse
(obsolete) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between concentrate and tailing
is that concentrate is while tailing is .As a noun tailing is
the act of following someone.concentrate
English
Verb
(concentrat)- to concentrate rays of light into a focus
- to concentrate the attention
- Let me concentrate !
- to concentrate acid by evaporation
- to concentrate by washing
- Population tends to concentrate in cities.
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Derived terms
* concentratedtailing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- (Gwilt)
- (Chaucer)
