Engrossed vs Concentrate - What's the difference?
engrossed | concentrate |
(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 engrossed and concentrate
is that engrossed is (engross) while concentrate is .As an adjective engrossed
is preoccupied with something to the exclusion of everything else or engrossed can be (of a document) finalized, written in large letters.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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