CONDENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does condense mean? 

• CONDENSE (verb)
  The verb CONDENSE has 7 senses:

1. undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

2. make more concise

3. remove water from

4. cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid

5. become more compact or concentrated

6. develop due to condensation

7. compress or concentrate

  Familiarity information: CONDENSE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDENSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they condense    ... he / she / it condenses   
Past simple: condensed   
Past participle: condensed   
-ing form: condensing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

condense; distil; distill

Context example:

The acid distills at a specific temperature

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

flux; liquefy; liquify (become liquid or fluid when heated)

Verb group:

condense (develop due to condensation)

condense (remove water from)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sentence example:

The water condenses

Derivation:

condensate (atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold)

condensation (the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make more concise

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

concentrate; condense; digest

Context example:

condense the contents of a book into a summary

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

abbreviate; abridge; contract; cut; foreshorten; reduce; shorten (reduce in scope while retaining essential elements)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "condense"):

capsule; capsulise; capsulize; encapsulate (put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume)

telescope (make smaller or shorter)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

condenser (lens used to concentrate light on an object)

condensation (a shortened version of a written work)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Remove water from

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

condense the milk

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Verb group:

condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)

condense (cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

condensation (the act of increasing the density of something)

condensation (the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together)

condensing (the act of increasing the density of something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The cold air condensed the steam

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

change integrity (change in physical make-up)

Verb group:

condense (remove water from)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They condense the water

Derivation:

condensate (atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold)

condensing (the act of increasing the density of something)

condenser (an apparatus that converts vapor into liquid)

condenser (a hollow coil that condenses by abstracting heat)

condensation (the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state)

condensation (atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Become more compact or concentrated

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Her feelings condensed

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

deepen; intensify (become more intense)

Verb group:

concentrate; condense; contract (compress or concentrate)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

condensation (the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Develop due to condensation

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

All our planets condensed out of the same material

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

arise; come up (result or issue)

Verb group:

condense; distil; distill (undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

condensation; condensing (the act of increasing the density of something)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Compress or concentrate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

concentrate; condense; contract

Context example:

Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan

Hypernyms (to "condense" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Verb group:

condense (become more compact or concentrated)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

condensation (the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together)

 Context examples 

"A fraction of this iron is injected into the night side owing to the planet's rotation and atmospheric winds. There, the iron encounters much cooler environments, condenses and rains down."

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

During mitosis, chromatin is condensed for segregation of chromosomes, while for transcription chromatin is more open.

(AKAP8 in Mitosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

DFF/CAD interacts with chromatin components such as topo II and histone H1 to condense chromatin structure and perhaps recruit CAD to chromatin.

(Apoptotic DNA Fragmentation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Antimoniotungstate is a mineral condensed ion with a cryptic structure.

(Antimoniotungstate, NCI Thesaurus)

In the cold upper atmosphere, when the water vapor condenses into liquid droplets or ice particles, it releases its heat and warms the atmosphere.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

But the universe stayed dark, without any luminous sources, until gravity condensed matter into the first stars and galaxies.

(Most Distant Black Hole, NASA)

Either way, a cloud forms when the air temperature and pressure are favorable for the vapor to condense into ice.

(Scientists Find 'Impossible' Cloud on Titan, NASA)

What’s interesting is that this noxious ice is made of two molecules that condensed together out of a rich mixture of gases at the south pole.

(NASA Team Finds Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan, NASA)

Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io has a thin atmosphere that collapses in the shadow of Jupiter, condensing as ice, according to a new study by NASA-funded researchers.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)

Scientists think this bright material could be predominantly methane that has condensed as ice onto the peaks from Pluto's atmosphere, like water in Earth's atmosphere, condensing as frost at high altitude.

(Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks, NASA)