Emphasize vs Concentrate - What's the difference?
emphasize | concentrate |
To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
(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.
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, chapter=2 To focus one's thought or attention (on).
As verbs the difference between emphasize and concentrate
is that emphasize is to stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something) while concentrate is .emphasize
English
Alternative forms
* emphasiseVerb
(emphasiz)- His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.
Synonyms
* betone * stress * underscoreAntonyms
* de-emphasize * downplayDerived terms
* reemphasize * overemphasize * underemphasizeconcentrate
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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