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Your f____ on something is the special attention that you pay it.Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it.
He said his sudden focus on foreign policy was not motivated by presidential politics.
The report's focus is on how technology affects human life rather than business.
IBM has also shifted its focus from mainframes to personal computers.
word focus
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verb
If you focus on a particular topic or if your attention is focused on it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics.
The research effort has focused on tracing the effects of growing levels of five compounds.
He is currently focusing on assessment and development.
Today he was able to focus his message exclusively on the economy.
Many of the papers focus their attention on the controversy surrounding the Foreign Secretary.
If you focus your eyes or if your eyes focus, your eyes adjust so that you can clearly see the thing that you want to look at. If you focus a camera, telescope, or other instrument, you adjust it so that you can see clearly through it.
Kelly couldn't focus his eyes well enough to tell if the figure was male or female.
His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball.
He found the binoculars and focused them on the boat.
Had she kept the camera focused on the river bank she might have captured a vital scene.
If you focus rays of light on a particular point, you pass them through a lens or reflect them from a mirror so that they meet at that point.
Magnetic coils focus the electron beams into fine spots.
noun
The focus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with.
The U.N.'s role in promoting peace is increasingly the focus of international attention.
The new system is the focus of controversy.
Her children are the main focus of her life.
Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it.
He said his sudden focus on foreign policy was not motivated by presidential politics.
The report's focus is on how technology affects human life rather than business.
IBM has also shifted its focus from mainframes to personal computers.
If you say that something has a focus, you mean that you can see a purpose in it.
Somehow, though, their latest album has a focus that the others have lacked.
Suddenly all of the seemingly isolated examples took on a meaningful focus.
You use focus to refer to the fact of adjusting your eyes or a camera, telescope, or other instrument, and to the degree to which you can see clearly.
His focus switched to the little white ball.
Together these factors determine the depth of focus.
It has no manual focus facility.
The focus of a number of rays or lines is the point at which they meet.
inflections focifocusesfocusingfocused
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