Concentrate
Concentrate verb - To fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective.
Usage example: a president who will try to concentrate public attention on the problems of inner cities
Train and concentrate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Train" instead a verb "Concentrate".
Train
Train verb - To fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective.
Usage example: train all your thoughts on imagining how you'd score the winning goal in the game
Concentrate and train are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Concentrate" instead a verb "Train".
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Mind Hive: Celestia can split her mind into at least three separate consciousnesses, each able to concentrate on a different train of thought.
Source: Fan Fic / The Immortal Game -
These changed the direction of the campaign, throwing his supply train into disarray and meaning that he was unable to properly concentrate his forces to bear on the Red Army.
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Always ashamed of his working-class accent, since he was 10 years old he consciously practiced to re-train his neutral speaking accent to be more refined (to the point that he has to concentrate to speak with the Yorkshire accent).
Source: Useful Notes / British Accents
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