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focus English

Meaning focus meaning

What does focus mean?
Definitions in simple English

focus Verb

— If you focus on something, you pay special attention to it. A small company will probably focus its attention on each artist's project more than a major label. Class, please focus on your assignment and stop talking. — If you focus a lens, you adjust it to make a clear picture. Most digital cameras automatically focus on the object in the centre. You know, without my glasses, my eyes just can't focus well enough to read.

focus Noun

— The focus is the main thing or person that people are paying attention to. — If your focus is on something, your attention is on it. — If something is in focus, the image is clear.

focus

— noun (= focusing, focussing, direction) the concentration of attention or energy on something the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology he had no direction in his life — verb direct one's attention on something Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies — verb cause to converge on or toward a central point Focus the light on this image — noun maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system in focus out of focus — noun maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion — noun a central point or locus of an infection in an organism the focus of infection — verb bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions — verb become focussed or come into focus The light focused — verb put (an image) into focus Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie — noun a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges — noun a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section — noun (= stress) special emphasis attached to something the stress was more on accuracy than on speed

Synonyms focus synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as focus?

focus English » English

concentrate focal point center focalize centre focalise direct sharpen nidus focusing stress rivet focussing fix direction centralize centering aim zoom in pore pay attention middle hub hotbed heart emphasis core converge concentre concentration concentrate on concenter center on zero in vision vertex turn topicalization topic tonic accent target summon up strive for spotlight spot specify source seat revolve about restrict

Topics focus topics

What do people use focus to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive See

Something used to see
Physical actions Arrange

Multiple things moving
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention
Person Sense, perceive See

Examine
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Be about, subject
Physical actions Physical impact

Aim at a target

Conjugation focus conjugation

How do you conjugate focus?

focus · verb

Examples focus examples

How do I use focus in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I need to focus.
That's a little out of focus.
This chapter will focus on the concepts of geometry.
Adjust the microscope's focus.
Adjust the focus of the microscope.
All in all, I think my hobbies are balanced; they bring some relaxation to my life, and at the same time bring focus to my studies.
Stop saying trifles! Focus on the main point.
While you drive, you should focus on the road.
Focus on the goal. Everything else is a distraction.
You should focus on the road when you drive.
Today I can't focus on my work.
Focus your camera on the flower.
I tried to focus my attention on reading.
Due to recent events, it is completely impossible for me to focus on my work.
Boobs are the proof that men can focus at two things at once!
As Japan approaches the 21st century, she is learning from Europe and making a necessary shift of economic focus from production for export to providing for the unprecedented needs of an aging population.
We must focus.
Try to focus.

Movie subtitles

Your focus needs to be on our work.
Look at me. I need you to focus, okay?
Yeah. Yeah, my blood sugar was a little low, so I decided to just come home and really focus on the presentation all weekend.
It improves focus and promotes goal-directed behavior.
Let's just focus on, um.
Josh, focus on your girlfriend and on your family, okay?
How do you focus them?
Guys, come on, I know business meetings are boring, but can we just focus for the next half hour?
But you got to focus on the plan right now.
Focus on any Santa Claus lookalikes, wannabes, fantasists.
The focus of our attentions and our prayers.
Jimmy, I need you to focus.
Maybe you should focus on finding out who wrote that letter.
Don't seem to have it in focus here.
We wanted it to be perfect, so I made Saad focus on getting every last detail right.
I just need you to find one so I can focus on it.
I'm certainly out of focus now.
Look, you can come into focus now. It's only me. Oh, excuse me.
Write with these hands and a brain all out of focus?
Seems to be the focus of the evening.
All you can focus on is the cold outside of things.
I just focus on the simple facts.
Instead, we should focus on why he is still alive.
This isn't the time to behave like idiots. We should focus on scientific research!
I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens.
From that, we should focus on the circumstances should it come ashore in Tokyo.
It sort of goes out of focus.
Clark: SAM, JUST FOCUS ON THE WORDS, OKAY?
Let's just focus on, um. On tonight and have fun, okay?
BARRY: Cooper, we all hungry, okay? But you got to focus on the plan right now.
We need to focus, okay?
Okay, I want you to zoom up, focus up and just really look in my eyes.
One must not focus on what is seen, but on what is not seen.
Norval, try to focus.
Through life's vicissitudes, the church provided a focus.

News and current affairs

The feature of the proposed pact that elicits the most excitement - its focus on regulatory barriers like mandatory product standards - should actually incite the greatest concern.
The solution should be to focus on improving the technology - making the lights safer, brighter, warm up faster, and save more energy, so that more people will replace more of their lights.
With policymakers reluctant to focus on the imperatives of structural healing, the result will be yet another growth scare - or worse.
Europe's single-minded focus on austerity is a result of a misdiagnosis of its problems.
Back then, Ukraine became the focus of global attention, but Ukrainians learned of the disaster much later than the rest of the world.
The US military's protective umbrella gave large swaths of the world a vacation from war, making it easier for them to focus on economic growth and regional integration.
Second, they instructed the IMF and the World Bank to re-think their development strategies, in order to put more focus on social problems, particularly health and education.
Three of the eight MDGs - reductions in children's deaths, maternal deaths, and epidemic diseases - focus directly on health.
The attempt to restrain the growth of debt does serve to concentrate the mind - it forces countries to focus on priorities and assess values.
In my view, a focus on global public goods - things everyone can consume without diminishing their availability to others - could help America reconcile its preponderant power with others' interests.
And a substantial change has indeed occurred over the past two generations: CEOs focus much more attention than they used to on pleasing the stock market, and this is likely to be a good thing.
With the world's focus on the debate over Iraq, the war on terror, and the Bush administration's doctrine of unilateral preemption, the American government's new emphasis on the utility of nuclear weapons has not received the attention it deserves.
I want to deviate from my usual economic theme this month and focus instead on the system by which the press - mostly the American press - covers government nowadays.
Instead of looking at the wrong model - that of a single state - the EU and its member states should focus on the conditions required for the proper functioning of a currency union that has no common budget to compensate for asymmetric shocks.
Central banks then began to focus on low and stable inflation as their primary objective, and became more independent from their political masters.
According to the conventional wisdom of many environmental campaigners, we should first do everything we can to mitigate global warming, and only then focus on adaptation strategies.
New research by three Italian economists, Francesco Bosello, Carlo Carraro, and Enrica De Cian does this, and, ultimately, provides a powerful economic case for a much greater focus on adaptation.
Both of these complaints reflect a third: unease with the Court's overwhelming focus on Africa.
Compounding the problem: donors have also been shifting their focus from AIDS to other diseases, because there is a sense that more lives can be saved more cheaply.
But the time has come to abandon the Jubilee movement's humanitarian approach and focus instead on the legal aspect.
At this stage of their economic development, with its focus on commodity exports, the priority for Africa's countries should be long-term economic integration, not currency union.
The best way to address that question is to focus not on who, but on what, would replace Arafat.
First, a new global compact should focus more directly on rich countries' responsibilities.
The failure to locate Saddam's WMD's is putting America's grab for Iraqi oil into sharp focus.
Restoring balance and eliminating the distortions will require time, investment, and structural change, and should be the central focus of America's economic policy.
That must be fixed, which requires that competitiveness become the central focus of longer-term US economic policy - the sooner, the better.
Managers' increased focus on maximizing shareholder value won many adherents when the idea was introduced in the 1980's: the impersonal discipline of financial markets would force companies to become more productive and innovative.
Instead, once again, there was an extended focus on the past.

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