Difference between Compact and Concentrated

What is the difference between Compact and Concentrated?

Compact as a verb is to make more dense; to compress. while Concentrated as a verb is to bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

Compact

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An agreement or contract. A small folding mirror containing powder that fits into a woman's purse or handbag.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make more dense; to compress.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Closely packed, i.e. packing much in a small space. Having all necessary features fitting neatly into a small space. (of a set) Closed and bounded. Such that every exhaustion of it by (overlapping) open balls has the property that some finitely many of those balls will also cover it.

Example sentence: Mirrors are part of my life and an ever-changing source of delight, displeasure or even disaster, depending on which one I am looking in. I look in a magnifying mirror when I pluck my eyebrows in the morning, full-length mirrors every day in rehearsal, and I often nervously bring out a compact to check my make-up.

Concentrated

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not dilute; having a high concentration.Intense; directed towards a specific location.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bring to, or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass, or force.

Example sentence: I strongly believe that the Founding Fathers of our country got it right: power corrupts, and any time you have too much power concentrated in one place, it tends to get abused, so checks and balances are always needed.

We hope you now know whether to use Compact or Concentrated in your sentence.

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