Concentrate - Concentrated - Concentrating - What's the difference?

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Now I want you to look carefully at this. July's figures were up on....
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Excuse me. Could you please concentrate in these figures? Sorry. Sorry.
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They're digging up our street. It's hard to concentrate with all the noise.
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To concentrate - to give all your thought and attention to something.
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Jay, you've got work to do. Were you asleep? No, I wasn't sleeping. I was thinking.
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With your eyes shut? Well, it helps me concentrate. So concentrating is about being focused. We
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sometimes use it in the passive to talk about things coming together in large numbers or
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quantities. There will be light showers to the west, but
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we can expect most of the rain to be concentrated in the north east.
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Concentrate is a regular verb, but be careful because 'concentrated' is also an adjective.
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This is limeade. It's like lemonade but it's made from limes. And, erm, I'm going to try
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it. Oh, it's very concentrated. I need to add water
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That's better. Remember that. If you want to tell someone
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you're focussing your mind, tell them you're concentrating.
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Don't tell them you're concentrated. That's for fruit drinks.
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We need a concentrated effort. One, two, three...
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