Concentrate (v. t.) 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; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute.
Concentrate (v. i.) To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.
Concentration (n.) The act or process of concentrating; the process of becoming concentrated, or the state of being concentrated; concentration.
Concentration (n.) The act or process of reducing the volume of a liquid, as by evaporation.
Concentration (n.) The act or process of removing the dress of ore and of reducing the valuable part to smaller compass, as by currents of air or water.
Concentrative (a.) Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration.
Concentrativeness (n.) The quality of concentrating.
Concentrativeness (n.) The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers.
Concentrator (n.) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air.
Concentric (a.) Alt. of Concentrical
Concentrical (a.) Having a common center, as circles of different size, one within another.
Concentric (n.) That which has a common center with something else.
Concentrically (adv.) In a concentric manner.
Concentricity (n.) The state of being concentric.
Concentual (a.) Possessing harmony; accordant.
Concept (n.) An abstract general conception; a notion; a universal.
Conceptacle (n.) That in which anything is contained; a vessel; a receiver or receptacle.
Conceptacle (n.) A pericarp, opening longitudinally on one side and having the seeds loose in it; a follicle; a double follicle or pair of follicles.
Conceptacle (n.) One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.
Conceptibility (n.) The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness.
Conceptible (a.) Capable of being conceived; conceivable.
Conception (n.) The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.
Conception (n.) The state of being conceived; beginning.
Conception (n.) The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation or perception.
Conception (n.) The formation in the mind of an image, idea, or notion, apprehension.
Conception (n.) The image, idea, or notion of any action or thing which is formed in the mind; a concept; a notion; a universal; the product of a rational belief or judgment. See Concept.
Conception (n.) Idea; purpose; design.
Conception (n.) Conceit; affected sentiment or thought.
Conceptional (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Conceptionalist (n.) A conceptualist.
Conceptious (a.) Apt to conceive; fruitful.
Conceptive (a.) Capable of conceiving.
Conceptual (a.) Pertaining to conception.
Conceptualism (n.) A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects.
Conceptualist (n.) One who maintains the theory of conceptualism.
Concerned (imp. & p. p.) of Concern
Concerning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concern
Concern (v. t.) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.
Concern (v. t.) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.
Concern (v. i.) To be of importance.
Concern (n.) That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.
Concern (n.) That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.
Concern (n.) Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.
Concern (n.) Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.
Concerned (v. t.) Disturbed; troubled; solicitous; as, to be much concerned for the safety of a friend.
Concernedly (adv.) In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
Concerning (prep.) Pertaining to; regarding; having relation to; respecting; as regards.
Concerning (a.) Important.
Concerning (n.) That in which one is concerned or interested; concern; affair; interest.
Concerning (n.) Importance; moment; consequence.
Concerning (n.) Concern; participation; interposition.
Concerning (n.) Emotion of mind; solicitude; anxiety.
Concerted (imp. & p. p.) of Concert
Concerting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Concert
Concert (v. t.) To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.
Concert (v. i.) To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.
Concert (v. t.) Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opinions and views; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action.
Concert (v. t.) Musical accordance or harmony; concord.
Concert (v. t.) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.
Concertante (n.) A concert for two or more principal instruments, with orchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.
Concertation (n.) Strife; contention.
Concertative (a.) Contentious; quarrelsome.
Concerted (a.) Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.
Concertina (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads.
Concertino (n.) A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto.
Concertion (n.) Act of concerting; adjustment.
Concertmeister (n.) The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.
Concertos (pl. ) of Concerto
Concerto (n.) A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its qualities or the performer's skill.
Concession (n.) The act of conceding or yielding; usually implying a demand, claim, or request, and thus distinguished from giving, which is voluntary or spontaneous.
Concession (n.) A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal.
Concessionist (n.) One who favors concession.
Concessive (a.) Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.
Concessively (adv.) By way of concession.
Concessory (a.) Conceding; permissive.
Concettism (n.) The use of concetti or affected conceits.
Concetti (pl. ) of Concetto
Concetto (n.) Affected wit; a conceit.
Conch (n.) A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to those of the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the large pink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs are of the genus Cassis. See Cameo.
Conch (n.) In works of art, the shell used by Tritons as a trumpet.
Conch (n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food.
Conch (n.) See Concha, n.
Conch (n.) The external ear. See Concha, n., 2.
Concha (n.) The plain semidome of an apse; sometimes used for the entire apse.
Concha (n.) The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.
Conchal (a.) Pertaining to the concha, or external ear; as, the conchal cartilage.
Conchifer (n.) One of the Conchifera.
Conchifera (n. pl.) That class of Mollusca which includes the bivalve shells; the Lamellibranchiata. See Mollusca.
Conchiferous (a.) Producing or having shells.
Conchiform (a.) Shaped like one half of a bivalve shell; shell-shaped.
Conchinine (n.) See Quinidine.
Conchite (n.) A fossil or petrified conch or shell.
Conchitic (a.) Composed of shells; containing many shells.
Conchoid (n.) A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greek geometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting an angle and duplicating the cube.
Conchoidal (a.) Having elevations or depressions in form like one half of a bivalve shell; -- applied principally to a surface produced by fracture.
Conchological (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.
Conchologist (n.) One who studies, or is versed in, conchology.
Conchology (n.) The science of Mollusca, and of the shells which they form; malacology.
Conchometer (n.) An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of their spire.