Condense

[kən'dens] or [kən'dɛns]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; 'water condenses'; 'The acid distills at a specific temperature'.

(verb.) compress or concentrate; 'Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan'.

(verb.) develop due to condensation; 'All our planets condensed out of the same material'.

(verb.) become more compact or concentrated; 'Her feelings condensed'.

(verb.) cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; 'The cold air condensed the steam'.

(verb.) remove water from; 'condense the milk'.

埃莉整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

(v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.

(v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.

(v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.

(v. i.) To undergo polymerization.

(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.

费利西亚編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Compress, consolidate, concentrate; make dense, compact, or close; press together.[2]. Abridge, abbreviate, shorten, epitomize, reduce, diminish, contract, curtail.[3]. Reduce to a liquid state.

v. n. [1]. Grow dense.[2]. Become liquid.

整理:雪麗

解釋/意思:

v.t. to compress or reduce by pressure into smaller compass: to reduce to a denser form as vapour to liquid.—n. Condensabil′ity the quality of being condensable.—adj. Condens′able capable of being compressed.—v.t. Condens′āte to condense: to compress into a closer form.—v.i. to become dense: to harden:—pr.p. condens′āting; pa.p. condens′āted.—ns. Condensā′tion act of condensing; Condens′er an apparatus for reducing vapours to a liquid form: an appliance for collecting or condensing electricity.

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