Word Finder - focusing

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(followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention.

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I have to focus on my work.

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To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.

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To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.

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You'll need to focus the microscope carefully in order to capture the full detail of this surface.

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To concentrate one’s attention.

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If you're going to beat your competitors, you need to focus.

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To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.

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The text box won't receive the user's keystrokes unless you explicitly focus it.

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The action of the verb to focus.

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Used for or pertaining to focusing.

She struggled for control, focusing on the road.

His eyes blinked and opened, slowly focusing on her face.

The kids were talking to her, but she had trouble focusing on anything outside of keeping the buzzing in her ears from pushing her beyond tunnel-vision into the darkness.

She moved along, foot-by-foot, focusing on the next stone and on her anger to keep from sobbing and falling to her doom.

If he wanted to keep his marriage together, he'd best let go of his past with Carmen and start focusing on Lori.

She pushed the thoughts of Darian from her head, instead focusing on seeing herself seated in his throne.

Focusing her attention on the car, she was acutely aware of the fact that he was still watching her.

A rush of excitement sent color to her cheeks, and she tore her gaze from his, focusing her attention on the dishes.

Gabriel asked, focusing once again on his surroundings.

Focusing on the present, Carmen straightened Destiny's frilly yellow Easter dress and brushed the thumb from her mouth.

Arrows continued to fall, and he kicked the horse on in determination, focusing hard on the road ahead of them.

He turned from the window, focusing on her.

Focusing hard on not letting him affect her, she continued her game of seduction, teasing him with looks, touches, whispers, until Darian's body was rigid and his turmoil had melted into lust intense enough to make his eyes glow.

Focusing on decreasing the distance between the pelvis and the ribcage, crunch together as you bend forward.

She replayed the home videos, closing her eyes and focusing.

It ignored her, focusing instead on scratching at a spot of dirt, one of its main food sources.

Focusing her attention on the pan of potatoes, she clamped the lid back on and kept her tone even.

She pushed the thought away, focusing on Alex.

His gaze lifted to her, gradually focusing on what she was saying.

He stopped and steadied himself, focusing on Carmen first, and then on Lori.

Jenn tried not to look at him, focusing instead on the scent of cheeseburgers.

He glanced up, slowly focusing on her face and words.

He started his Tai Chi routine, focusing externally while the night filled his heightened senses.

The excellent manner in which the scales and micrometers are mounted, the employment of a compound microscope for viewing the scales, with its ingeniously arranged and admirably efficient reversing prism, and the perfection of its slow motions for focusing and reading, combine to render this a most accurate and convenient instrument for very refined measures, although too slow for work in which the measures must depend on single pointings in each of two reversed positions of the plate, and where speed of working is essential.

The first would correspond to a general turning of the beam; and the second would imply imperfect focusing of the central parts.

If, further, on leaving the grating the light be received by a focusing lens, e.g.

One was a wooden box with a projecting tube in which a combination of a concave with a convex lens was fitted, for throwing an enlarged image upon the focusing screen, which in its proportions and application is very similar to our modern telephotographic objectives.

Struve also points out that by attaching a fine scale to the focusing slide of the eye-piece, and knowing the coefficient of expansion of the metal tube, the means would be provided for determining the absolute change of the focal length of the object-glass at any time by the simple process of focusing on a double star.

Thus the scales, the positionand declination-circles, the field of view, the heads of all the micrometer-microscopes, the focusing scale, &c., are read without the aid of a hand-lamp and with an amount of illumination that can be regulated at the observer's pleasure.

The diamond-shaped pointer is always in focus; focusing for individual eyesight is effected by turning the eye-piece, which is furnished with a scale for readjustment.

He therefore proposed that there should be an international conference for the purpose of focusing the efforts of all states which were " sincerely seeking to make the great idea of universal peace triumph over the elements of trouble and discord."

These were put down by French and Austrian arms, with the result of focusing the hatred of Young Italy on the pope.

He applies his mathematics to the drama; no writer excels him in artful construction, in the arrangement of dramatic scenes, in mere theatrical technique, in the focusing of attention on his chief personages.

Very powerful simple microscopes have hardly any depth of definition so that in fact only points lying in one plane can be seen sharply with one focusing.

Where very short focus simple microscopes are employed, using high magnifications, it is imperative to employ a stand which permits exact focusing and the use of a special illuminating apparatus.

Since, however, only relatively low powers are now employed, the ordinary rack and pinion movement for focusing suffices, and for the illuminating the object only a mirror below the stage is required when the object is transparent, and a condensing lens above the stage when opaque.

This representation acquires a special importance if the object be micrometrically measured, for an inaccuracy in focusing does not involve an alteration of the size of the image.

It is therefore possible to judge the excellence of the focusing of objectives on the strength of the ocular-magnification, or the over-magnification, which they permit.

Lemiere's instruments a common focusing arrangement, and inter-pupillary distance was effected by 'a' --?- --' FIG.

We've been focusing on a letter writing campaign to the senior citizens.

Katie heard nothing pursuing them and closed her eyes, focusing hard.

Joe Clark recently played homage to the CSS Samurai by starting a WCAG samurai focusing on web accessibility.

From the use of macro focusing, the worlds seem immense with potential; Gottelier is telling stories using scraps of familiarity.

The battle was focusing on whether the US would require a fresh UN mandate to carry out an attack.

H2 Noted by several staff focusing on lack of progress with formative assessment.

Examining the general principles of liability and focusing on the concept of duty, this authoritative text offers unrivaled breadth and depth of coverage.

Months ago is the march session focusing the cathode.

Many in industry and government have been focusing on exactly how to accomplish this coordination for at least the last five years.

The module concludes by considering the imperatives of critical criminology, focusing on the commonalities and contrasts within critical criminology.

Dr. Carlton A Evans Research Overview We are investigating the determinants of TB susceptibility in Peru, focusing on the effects of malnutrition.