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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
focus
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
attention/emphasis/focus shifts
▪ In this stage of a rape case, the focus often shifts onto the victim and her conduct.
concentrate/focus on an aspect
▪ Accountants often concentrate on one aspect of accounting.
focus a camera on sb/sth (=point it very exactly at sb/sth)
▪ The TV cameras were focused on his face.
focus group
soft focus
switch your attention/focus to sth
▪ Laura wasn't interested so he switched his attention to Tessa.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
aspect
▪ Thereafter everyone will focus on practical aspects of dealing with an existing problem.
▪ That the ultra-competitive Johnson would focus on the uneven aspects of his game was a lot less surprising than his actual play.
▪ The book's later chapters focus mainly upon aspects of media accountability.
▪ Hopefully, they will focus on motivational aspects of this situation.
▪ Similarly, within any stage, different agencies may need to focus on different aspects.
▪ Finally, the graph search perspective helped to focus on the dynamic aspects of speech processing.
attention
▪ Towards the end of the 1980s attention was being focussed on some interesting developments in wagon design.
▪ A great deal of social work attention was focussed on the parents and the social and economic situation of the family.
▪ Those things on which attention is focussed regularly are the things that get done.
▪ All of our attention was focussed on the boy.
▪ Further attention will be focussed upon general physical and nutritional health as well as On emotional and spiritual recovery.
▪ Our attention should be focussed on the direction of movement and the relative change.
chapter
▪ The book's later chapters focus mainly upon aspects of media accountability.
▪ In Chapter 7, we focus not simply on what happened to the new managers, but rather on how it felt.
▪ In this chapter we focus on how you arrange your gathered material in the form of an argument.
▪ In later chapters we focus on reporting at other stages of the process.
▪ Two chapters focus on modes of separation.
▪ The next two chapters focus on the process environment, successively on automated sampling and chromatography.
discussion
▪ Consequently, the subsequent discussion will focus on different analyses which may be pursued before or after the initial investment.
▪ Also in these seminars, discussion will focus on wildlife conservation.
▪ In the second case the discussion should focus on the cost to the business, should this be £4,000 or £5,000.
▪ Again perhaps an initial discussion which does focus on the differences to get that out of the way might be helpful.
▪ The present discussion will focus on reasons and natural justice.
▪ All discussions of eating disorders focus upon the disorderly eater rather than chaotic food.
effort
▪ Your main efforts should now focus on establishing a firm home base.
▪ Her mind drifted and blanked, refusing her efforts to focus.
group
▪ The Department's group communication activities focus on informal education in rural areas.
▪ The focus groups really helped me focus.
▪ All of these groups focus on helping family members cope when they have an alcoholic family member.
▪ Mark Drake combined aspects of both these models by using a group process to focus the political actors on analyzing business issues.
mind
▪ In each case try to focus your mind on the part of your body that has in turn been made tense and relaxed.
▪ In the way that you use a camera, you can focus your mind either on positive or negative factors.
▪ The meditator is required to focus their mind upon the mantra in an effortless, relaxed way.
▪ He will be able to return on compassionate leave - particularly if it helps to focus his mind on the Test series.
need
▪ It should focus on internal needs defined by the school and its teachers, not merely what outsiders consider to be important.
▪ Oratory eliminated the worthless chatter and allowed spies to focus on their precise needs, spewing to the printer only relevant messages.
▪ In a sales-orientated approach the sales representative is focussing on his needs as a seller.
▪ The point of such an exercise is to clearly focus on present needs and to clarify the process of learning.
▪ Action should focus on the training needs of all new recruits and continually developing and improving the skills of existing employees.
problem
▪ Some of this spirit of discovery seems lacking in the presentation which tends to focus on cataloging our problems.
▪ You try to focus on the problem again.
▪ It will focus on the problems arising from the interplay of national environmental policies.
▪ Mission-driven budgets relieve legislators of micromanagement decisions, freeing them to focus on the larger problems they were elected to solve.
project
▪ The main questions which the project will focus upon are: Has privatisation laid the foundation for longer-term change in employee relations?
▪ Brown created Project Foresight to focus on the issue.
▪ This project will focus on this particular element of formula funding.
▪ The projects focus on maintaining and protecting the species' habitats, and in some cases establishing them in new habitats.
▪ The second phase of the project will focus on the actual dynamics of problem incidents.
▪ The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
▪ Two further projects focus directly on management behaviour as it affects approaches and strategies towards employees.
question
▪ Research into Anglo-Saxon pottery found in the excavation of settlements has tended to focus on questions relating to domestic pottery production.
▪ The clearest way to focus the questions raised so far is by posing the level-of-analysis problem with more care.
▪ Having attributed such importance to value consensus, many functionalists then focus on the question of how this consensus is maintained.
▪ And do not such disciplines go further and focus such questions in real-life judgements, decisions and actions?
research
▪ Part of the research will focus on Lungu perceptions of, and interaction with, their natural environment.
▪ His initial research will focus on how best to solve economic problems in inner-city areas.
▪ Much of the existing research has focussed on the internal adaptations of the firm to the introduction of new technology.
▪ The research will focus on just one of those research groups, and will trace the discovery and the published discovery claim.
▪ The research project will focus on children's comprehension of pretence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He stared out the window for a moment, trying to focus his thoughts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any work undertaken on an individual basis should always focus attention on the broader social context in which the individual lives.
▪ At least, he said, he could focus on his other math class.
▪ By which is meant that they have developed their ability to focus both senses and mind upon a thought process.
▪ In the way that you use a camera, you can focus your mind either on positive or negative factors.
▪ It took a long time to focus and get rid of the swimming water.
▪ It warns policymakers not to get tangled up with averages but to focus instead on increments.
▪ Research will focus on the people living in the estates in east Middlesbrough.
▪ The companies Uunet and Digex, for example, have dropped consumers to focus on business markets.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
central
▪ This is the composite word on the triangle which is the central focus of every Royal Arch chapter.
▪ It will provide a comprehensive district-wide service for the first time, and act as a central focus for the community.
▪ The central focus is the development of leisure interests during adolescence and the theoretical framework draws upon recent work in social cognition.
▪ The central focus of the analysis is therefore on developments in, and changes in the interrelationships between, sport and medicine.
▪ Authority is the central focus of hierarchy, which is the chief coordinating mechanism of work organizations.
▪ Next Time A central focus of the next issues will be on communicating research.
▪ Rather, the central focus of the magic is the weather-vane on top of the Great Tower.
▪ The central focus of all this railway activity was, however, the railway station.
clear
▪ Each part has a clear learning focus and language points are consistently signposted through the use of headings.
▪ It is clear that the focus is on what ought to be taught: the intended curriculum.
▪ Every effort is made to bring matters into clear focus.
▪ Bring into clear and detailed focus all the decision you make today.
▪ The figure whose character achieved clearest focus was that of Fulk the Good, Geoffrey Grisegonelle's father.
▪ We can work together as a whole group in which there is a clear focus and a clear task.
▪ The advantage of this system is that lessons have a clear focus, which is beneficial to student and teacher.
main
▪ This is the main focus of attention in this chapter.
▪ Mona, Seth and Barbara make up the main focus of the book, but even the tangential characters are wittily drawn.
▪ Nithard's main focus was on Charles; but in July 840 the eyes of most of the elite were on Lothar.
▪ The use of public funds to clean up the jusen mess will be the main focus of the session.
▪ The main focus of this chapter is elected local government, but this in itself is organizationally far from simple.
▪ However the main focus is on the Honours which are now on display in the Crown Room.
▪ More usually formal committees have remained politically representative, with the main focus of organized party activity being reflected in party groups.
▪ His main focus is what this dispersal tells us about human variation and evolution.
major
▪ A major focus was the problem of how to resource a strategy for new local services.
▪ But the real enforcers seem to be the fans, for whom the masked wrestlers are a major focus of fantasy.
▪ A major focus of the research concerns the strategies and resources available to participants in establishing preferred images and agendas.
▪ Controllers that learn are a major focus of their efforts.
▪ Program objectives are a major focus of the evaluation model.
▪ Ideas and experiences of time will be a major focus.
▪ Arguably, a major focus of marketing could be on emphasising the individuality of services.
new
▪ The science needed a change of direction, a new focus.
▪ But a visit to a local physician for a routine checkup sparked a new focus for her creative talents.
▪ And two articles emphasising the importance of quality as applied to service issues - the new focus for the quality process.
▪ Implicit in the name was a new focus on spacing, rather than limiting, families.
▪ But a new sense of focus and control has set in.
▪ There are some excellent new books that focus on low-fat, low-sugar, low-salt, high-fibre recipes.
▪ It is likely that Compact will give a new focus to such activities and provide new opportunities for student involvement. 16.
▪ The four objectives, however, provide a new focus.
primary
▪ But it is personal relationships that emerge as the primary focus of this biography.
▪ The play made David and his anguish the primary focus.
▪ The primary focus is on the social, as opposed to the economic and technological features of competition.
▪ And their primary focus for control is always individual performance and accountability.
▪ Laski's study of judicial review is particularly interesting since its primary focus is a study of Roberts v. Hopwood.
▪ A spine-tingling vocal concoction that gives Trick Baby its primary focus.
▪ Given the pleasure and benefit to both men and women, why was it never a primary campaigning focus?
sharp
▪ That puts the importance of the order in sharp focus.
▪ At most ski resorts, large and small, there has been a sharper focus on day-care facilities and staff.
▪ The banning of the annual sea dump brought the issue of nuclear waste disposal into even sharper focus.
▪ Programs designed to motivate patients into leaving voluntarily brought into sharp focus conflicting institutional dynamics inherent in the leprosarium setting.
▪ In recent years this has been brought into sharp focus with growing public concern for a healthier and safer environment.
▪ Fast Forward Advanced At this level, there is a much sharper focus on authentic listening and speaking.
▪ Henley Research Centre Strengths Sharp client focus.
▪ An up-front market study can provide valuable insights and provide sharper focus for the subsequent search.
soft
▪ Each frozen image has been warmed into soft focus, like a special effect.
▪ She sees everything in soft focus, but feels nothing.
▪ Applied over makeup, this transparent, velvety gel puts wrinkles into soft focus.
■ NOUN
group
▪ General practitioners are also active members of focus groups that discuss particular areas of service such as diabetes.
▪ In focus groups, they asked the engineers scores of questions: What were their work and communication styles?
▪ He is a very mundane politician reading the focus group results and staking out a position he thinks will sell.
▪ One involves focus groups, where a representative customer is selected and asked to perform a task by following the enclosed directions.
▪ Perhaps the Labour pollster Philip Gould could see what one of his focus groups thinks.
▪ Part of the study included results of focus groups of girls 10, 13 and 16 years old.
▪ The focus groups really helped me focus.
▪ As a focus group later revealed, the more relaxed tone won the readers' interest.
■ VERB
act
▪ The extent to which a powerful magnate could dominate the shire community and act as a focus for local sentiment varied.
▪ Similar market-places are likely to have acted as a focus elsewhere.
▪ Postgraduate activity is organised into a Graduate School, which acts as a focus for research student affairs.
▪ The site will attract visitors during the festival, and will later act as a focus for inward investment.
▪ The Summer School and studio have acted as a focus for Jacqueline's work.
▪ The dead bodies of lagoon fish had occasionally acted as a focus for the processes of petrification.
become
▪ Children's behaviour problems become a focus of concern when the child is behaving inappropriately or excessively for their age.
▪ As geology has become the focus of more attention, it has aroused the curiosity of young people about nature in general.
▪ This is because health and the quality and availability of health care often become the focus of community struggle.
▪ I made two more visits to Knowlton, and it has now become a focus for my own particular pilgrimage.
▪ The part of the wood where we were had become the focus to which all the firing converged.
▪ Reserpine became the focus of further clinical studies.
▪ Social mobility thus becomes the focus of attention.
bring
▪ It is that alarming situation which egg producers wish to address and which the battling nuns have brought into public focus.
▪ She still wears them in class, closing her left eye to bring the blackboard into focus.
▪ The lens in both the eye and the camera brings the world into focus.
▪ Programs designed to motivate patients into leaving voluntarily brought into sharp focus conflicting institutional dynamics inherent in the leprosarium setting.
▪ Along the stem rail there is a line of telescopes; each brings the shore into focus at a given distance.
▪ This inevitably brings into focus the procedure for the planning, monitoring and control of public expenditure.
▪ Every effort is made to bring matters into clear focus.
change
▪ The stories are there - we need only change our focus, alter our frame of reference, in order to find them.
▪ By changing the narrative focus frequently, Hood fails to control the direction of her novel.
▪ By changing the historian's focus, these problems can be put into another perspective.
▪ They just changed the focus from fear to action.
▪ That question asks us to change our focus and consider our legal practice not in cross-section but over some stretch of time.
▪ Henry Fan, managing director of Citic, said the company is changing its focus as it shifts assets.
▪ So it's actually changed its focus.
▪ You have to change your focus.
keep
▪ He was, however, having a great deal of trouble keeping the world in focus.
▪ To keep that focus, Finch has refused to speculate about what happened to Earhart.
▪ Just for once, let's keep the focus on it.
▪ While Dole tried to keep his focus on crime, other issues, particularly abortion, cropped up.
▪ It keeps well to its focus on the individual's relationship to society, and sustains the comparisons.
▪ This chapter has kept its focus resolutely on the male.
provide
▪ The operations group was established to provide a focus for information and discussion.
▪ To provide a focus, Section 11. 4 describes three conceptual approaches to oil boiler conversion to gas-coal burning.
▪ Less than two minutes away are the three pools which provide the daytime focus.
▪ That provided a focus, a dynamism, and a sense of obligation to their activities that had been missing before.
▪ And environmental factors provide an obvious focus for a consideration of preventive options.
▪ And video's moving pictures also help learners concentrate because they provide a focus of attention while they listen.
▪ More interestingly, the items which provide the focus to the concordance need not be dictionary headings or even vocabulary words at all.
▪ An up-front market study can provide valuable insights and provide sharper focus for the subsequent search.
shift
▪ Such an emphasis shifts the focus away from modifying or repackaging the individual on to a concern to minimise the restrictiveness of opportunities.
▪ Now, shift the focus to the person who matters most: the reader.
▪ Ministers have shifted their focus from primary standards to the lack of pupil progress at key stage 3.
▪ Schools also have shifted the focus of education away from citizenship towards training for jobs, he said.
▪ This shifted the conceptual focus away from needs as defined in relation to the child's handicap towards educational needs arising from learning difficulties.
▪ It is often difficult to peg managers who shift their focus from one industry or market theme to another.
▪ But the tendency for the theoretical concerns also to shift focus and expand is evident in regionalism seen as theory.
▪ The premium on performance shifts the focus this spring to the exhibition games, starting in another week.
switch
▪ We should switch the focus: the no-car class; the one-car class; and increasingly the two-car class.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The organization has a simple focus - keeping kids in school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And this, too, was a consequence of sheer experience and of the pedagogical focus.
▪ Just for once, let's keep the focus on it.
▪ Our focus, they say, should henceforth be directed to the secondary years.
▪ The focus of the drama shifts to discovering the dangers, and weighing up pros and cons of using the magic carpet.
▪ The play made David and his anguish the primary focus.
▪ The powers that be were not interested in continuing that serious focus on the black experience.
▪ The science needed a change of direction, a new focus.
▪ Three of the company of eight are in wheelchairs - but the focus is always on dance, not disability.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Focus

Focus \Fo"cus\ (f[=o]"k[u^]s), n.; pl. E. Focuses (f[=o]"k[u^]s*[e^]z), L. Foci (f[=o]"s[imac]). [L. focus hearth, fireplace; perh. akin to E. bake. Cf. Curfew, Fuel, Fusil the firearm.]

  1. (Opt.) A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refracted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

  2. (Geom.) A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distance between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.

    Note: Thus, in the ellipse FGHKLM, A is the focus and CD the directrix, when the ratios FA:FE, GA:GD, MA:MC, etc., are all equal. So in the hyperbola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio HA:HK is constant for all points of the curve; and in the parabola, A is the focus and CD the directrix when the ratio BA:BC is constant. In the ellipse this ratio is less than unity, in the parabola equal to unity, and in the hyperbola greater than unity. The ellipse and hyperbola have each two foci, and two corresponding directrixes, and the parabola has one focus and one directrix. In the ellipse the sum of the two lines from any point of the curve to the two foci is constant; that is: AG + GB = AH + HB; and in the hyperbola the difference of the corresponding lines is constant. The diameter which passes through the foci of the ellipse is the major axis. The diameter which being produced passes through the foci of the hyperbola is the transverse axis. The middle point of the major or the transverse axis is the center of the curve. Certain other curves, as the lemniscate and the Cartesian ovals, have points called foci, possessing properties similar to those of the foci of conic sections. In an ellipse, rays of light coming from one focus, and reflected from the curve, proceed in lines directed toward the other; in an hyperbola, in lines directed from the other; in a parabola, rays from the focus, after reflection at the curve, proceed in lines parallel to the axis. Thus rays from A in the ellipse are reflected to B; rays from A in the hyperbola are reflected toward L and M away from B.

  3. A central point; a point of concentration.

    Aplanatic focus. (Opt.) See under Aplanatic.

    Conjugate focus (Opt.), the focus for rays which have a sensible divergence, as from a near object; -- so called because the positions of the object and its image are interchangeable.

    Focus tube (Phys.), a vacuum tube for R[oe]ntgen rays in which the cathode rays are focused upon the anticathode, for intensifying the effect.

    Principal focus, or Solar focus (Opt.), the focus for parallel rays.

Focus

Focus \Fo"cus\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Focused; p. pr. & vb. n. Focusing.] To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camer


  1. --R. Hunt.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
focus

1640s, "point of convergence," from Latin focus "hearth, fireplace" (also, figuratively, "home, family"), which is of unknown origin. Used in post-classical times for "fire" itself; taken by Kepler (1604) in a mathematical sense for "point of convergence," perhaps on analogy of the burning point of a lens (the purely optical sense of the word may have existed before Kepler, but it is not recorded). Introduced into English 1650s by Hobbes. Sense transfer to "center of activity or energy" is first recorded 1796.

focus

1775 in optics, "bring into focus" (transitive); 1807 in the figurative sense, from focus (n.). Intransitive use by 1864, originally in photography. Related: Focused; focusing; less commonly focussed; focussing.

Wiktionary
focus

n. 1 (context countable optics English) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge. 2 (context countable geometry English) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge. 3 (context uncountable photography cinematography English) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point. 2 (context transitive English) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane. 3 (context transitive followed by '''on''' or '''upon''' English) To concentrate one's attention. 4 (context intransitive English) To concentrate one’s attention.

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WordNet
focus

  1. n. the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life" [syn: focusing, focussing, direction, centering]

  2. maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; "in focus"; "out of focus"

  3. maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"

  4. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection" [syn: focal point, nidus]

  5. special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed" [syn: stress]

  6. a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges [syn: focal point]

  7. a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

  8. [also: foci (pl)]

focus

  1. v. direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, center, centre, pore, rivet]

  2. cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image" [ant: blur]

  3. bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions [syn: concenter, concentre, focalize, focalise]

  4. become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused" [syn: focalize, focalise] [ant: blur]

  5. put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie" [syn: focalize, focalise, sharpen] [ant: blur]

  6. [also: foci (pl)]

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Wikipedia
FOCUS

FOCUS is a computer programming language and development environment. It is a language used to build database queries, and is regarded as a fourth-generation programming language (4GL). Produced by Information Builders Inc., it was originally developed for data handling and analysis on the IBM mainframe. As newer systems were developed and smaller computers became more powerful, the available platforms for FOCUS were extended to personal computers and in 1997, to the World Wide Web in the WebFOCUS product.

Focus (geometry)

In geometry, focuses or foci (, ), singular focus, are special points with reference to which any of a variety of curves is constructed. For example, one or two foci can be used in defining conic sections, the four types of which are the circle, ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola. In addition, two foci are used to define the Cassini oval and the Cartesian oval, and more than two foci are used in defining an n-ellipse.

Focus (linguistics)

Focus is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information. Focus is related to information structure. Contrastive focus specifically refers to the coding of information that is contrary to the presuppositions of the interlocutor.

Related terms include Comment and Rheme.

Focus (board game)

Focus is an abstract strategy board game, designed by Sid Sackson and first published in 1964 by Kosmos. The game has been re-published many times since, sometimes under the titles Domination or Dominio. Focus won the 1981 Spiel des Jahres and Essen Feather awards. The game appears in Sackson's A Gamut of Games in the section New Battles on an Old Battlefield.

Focus (band)

Focus are a Dutch progressive rock band formed in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1969 by Thijs van Leer. The band have undergone numerous formations in its history. Since 2011 it has comprised van Leer on vocals, keyboards, and flute, Pierre van der Linden on drums, Bobby Jacobs on bass, and Menno Gootjes on guitar.

Formed of members of the pit band for the Dutch production of the rock musical Hair, Focus gained popularity following the success of Focus II (1971) which contained the hit single " Hocus Pocus". Their success continued with Focus 3 (1972) and Hamburger Concerto (1974). Following their break up in 1978, Focus reunited in 1985, 1990, and 1999 before reforming in 2002. They continue to tour and release albums.

In 2010, "Hocus Pocus" was used as the theme for Nike's 2010 World Cup commercial Write The Future which renewed interest in the band.

Focus (computing)

In computing, the focus indicates the component of the graphical user interface which is selected to receive input. Text entered at the keyboard or pasted from a clipboard is sent to the component which has the focus. Moving the focus away from a specific user interface element is known as a blur event in relation to this element. Typically, the focus is withdrawn from an element by giving another element the focus. This means that focus and blur events typically both occur virtually simultaneously, but in relation to different user interface elements, one that gets the focus and one that gets blurred.

The concept is similar to a cursor in a text-based environment. However, when considering a graphical interface, there is also a mouse pointer involved. Moving the mouse will typically move the mouse pointer without changing the focus. The focus can usually be changed by clicking on a component that can receive focus with the mouse. Many desktops also allow the focus to be changed with the keyboard. By convention, the key is used to move the focus to the next focusable component and to the previous one. When graphical interfaces were first introduced, many computers did not have mice, so this alternative was necessary. This feature makes it easier for people that have a hard time using a mouse to use the user interface. In certain circumstances, the arrow keys can also be used to move focus.

Focus (Cynic album)

Focus is the debut album by Cynic, released September 14, 1993 through Roadrunner Records. A remastered version of the album was released in 2004.

Focus (Stan Getz album)

Focus is a jazz album recorded in 1961, featuring Stan Getz on tenor saxophone with a string orchestra. The album is a suite which was originally commissioned by Getz from composer and arranger Eddie Sauter. Widely regarded as a high point for both men's careers, Focus was described by Getz as his favorite of all his recordings. The pair would next collaborate on their soundtrack to the 1965 film Mickey One.

Focus (Souls of Mischief album)

Focus is the third studio release from Souls of Mischief, and the first release on the independent Hieroglyphics Imperium Recordings label. The album was released on April 20, 1998. For over a decade, it was a cassette and LP only release, only available through their website. However, it is now available in digital format, via iTunes and Bandcamp.

Focus (German magazine)

Focus is a German weekly news magazine published in Munich and distributed throughout Germany. It is the third-largest weekly news magazine in Germany. It is considered conservative and leans towards economic liberalism.

Focus (2001 film)

Focus is a 2001 film, starring William H. Macy, Laura Dern, David Paymer, and Meat Loaf based on a 1945 novel by playwright Arthur Miller.

Focus (novel)

Focus is a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller which deals with issues of racism, particularly antisemitism. In 2001, a film version, starring William H. Macy, was released.

Focus (optics)

In geometrical optics, a focus, also called an image point, is the point where light rays originating from a point on the object converge. Although the focus is conceptually a point, physically the focus has a spatial extent, called the blur circle. This non-ideal focusing may be caused by aberrations of the imaging optics. In the absence of significant aberrations, the smallest possible blur circle is the Airy disc, which is caused by diffraction from the optical system's aperture. Aberrations tend to get worse as the aperture diameter increases, while the Airy circle is smallest for large apertures.

An image, or image point or region, is in focus if light from object points is converged almost as much as possible in the image, and out of focus if light is not well converged. The border between these is sometimes defined using a circle of confusion criterion.

A principal focus or focal point is a special focus:

  • For a lens, or a spherical or parabolic mirror, it is a point onto which collimated light parallel to the axis is focused. Since light can pass through a lens in either direction, a lens has two focal points—one on each side. The distance in air from the lens or mirror's principal plane to the focus is called the focal length.
  • Elliptical mirrors have two focal points: light that passes through one of these before striking the mirror is reflected such that it passes through the other.
  • The focus of a hyperbolic mirror is either of two points which have the property that light from one is reflected as if it came from the other.

Diverging (negative) lenses and convex mirrors do not focus a collimated beam to a point. Instead, the focus is the point from which the light appears to be emanating, after it travels through the lens or reflects from the mirror. A convex parabolic mirror will reflect a beam of collimated light to make it appear as if it were radiating from the focal point, or conversely, reflect rays directed toward the focus as a collimated beam. A convex elliptical mirror will reflect light directed towards one focus as if it were radiating from the other focus, both of which are behind the mirror. A convex hyperbolic mirror will reflect rays emanating from the focal point in front of the mirror as if they were emanating from the focal point behind the mirror. Conversely, it can focus rays directed at the focal point that is behind the mirror towards the focal point that is in front of the mirror as in a Cassegrain telescope.

Focus (encyclopedia)

Focus is an encyclopedia first published in Swedish in five volumes 1958–1960, later extended with additional volumes, republished in several editions, and translated to Danish, Norwegian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Based on inspiration from the richly illustrated 1947 edition of the American World Book Encyclopedia, the plan for Focus as conceived by Sven Lidman (born 1921) was based on two principles:

  1. a set of highly instructional and internationally reusable illustrations should be produced first, to which text could be written later in various languages, and
  2. the basic encyclopedia should be compact (only 3 or 4 volumes) to which specialized add-on volumes from a series (Sports in Focus, This year in Focus, etc.) could be combined ("Kombinationslexikon statt Konversationslexikon"), making it easier to cover different market segments.

Sven Lidman left his previous employer in 1955 and took this new idea to the Swedish publishing house Almqvist & Wiksell, but only after also getting a letter of intent from German publisher Bertelsmann was he able to get his employer started. Being the first richly illustrated encyclopedia in Sweden (and several other countries), the sales were a given success. The idea of only reusing the illustrations failed, as most contracting publishers chose to translate most of the text as well. A fifth volume containing an index, thesaurus and cross-reference was added to the basic encyclopedia, not least because this increased the total "number of entries" from 40,000 (in the main volumes) to 100,000 (in the index), one of the strongest sales arguments for encyclopedias.

Sven Lidman left A&W in 1963 to continue his work in Swedish lexicography elsewhere. His autobiography Uppslagsboken och jag was published in 1987.

Focus (Italian magazine)

Focus is an Italian monthly popular science magazine published in Milan, Italy.

Focus (Ukrainian magazine)

Focus is a national Ukrainian weekly news magazine in Russian language published in Kiev and distributed throughout the country. The base auditory of the magazine are the people of high and above high level of income between 25 and 45 years of age that live in the 40 biggest metropolises of Ukraine. The magazine's motto: "Every detail has a meaning" .

Focus (Polish magazine)

Focus is a Polish scientific monthly magazine published in Warsaw, Poland.

Focus (2015 film)

Focus is a 2015 American romantic crime dark comedy- drama film written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, starring Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Rodrigo Santoro.

Focus (Holly Starr album)

Focus is the second studio album from the Christian singer-songwriter Holly Starr. The album released on October 2, 2012 via Save the City Records. The producers on the album were Chuck Butler, David Garcia and Christopher Stevens. The album received critical acclamation from music critics, yet it did not get much commercial success because it failed to chart.

Focus (Chico Freeman album)

Focus is an album by American jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman featuring Arthur Blythe recorded in 1994 and released on the Contemporary label.

Focus (song)

"Focus" is a song recorded by American singer Ariana Grande, released on October 30, 2015. Originally intended to be the lead single from her third studio album Dangerous Woman, the song was scrapped from the standard edition track listing, with the track only being included on the Japanese edition of the album. Later, the title track replaced it as the lead single. The song was co-written by Grande, Savan Kotecha, Peter Svensson, and Ilya.

The song was a commercial success, debuting and peaking at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Grande's sixth top-ten single and selling 113,000 downloads in its first week. The song received mixed reception from critics who called it a retro, upbeat number to dance to but criticized it for sounding too similar to Grande's top-ten hit "Problem" a year earlier. As of March 2016, "Focus" has sold 425,000 copies in the United States and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The single won Best Song To Dance To at the 2016 Radio Disney Music Awards.

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Usage examples of "focus".

You get older daughters trying to protect younger siblings by doing anything they can to keep the abusive father focused on them.

She glanced round the room again, achingly trying not to focus on Robert and yet helpless to stop herself from focusing on him, from wondering whom he was with.

Greek Revolution and that his own advocacy of the cause would have to focus more on stimulating private American support and stronger popular sympathy for the suffering Greek people.

He had, in fact, crossed the designs of no less a power than the German Empire, he had blundered into the hot focus of Welt-Politik, he was drifting helplessly towards the great Imperial secret, the immense aeronautic park that had been established at a headlong pace in Franconia to develop silently, swiftly, and on an immense scale the great discoveries of Hunstedt and Stossel, and so to give Germany before all other nations a fleet of airships, the air power and the Empire of the world.

He saw Teasle dispersing into triple focus down there, eyes bright, aiming, and he knew there should be no other way.

Quelan tribe has chosen Mandel for their Kiah Master and Akela as his Focus.

Waiting until their attention was focused on the next toss, Alec slipped across to the other side.

In the Solar System, the Amalgams had focused and directed the gravity beams used to tear up the planetary surfaces and launch them into free space.

Now and again the horses caught a whisper of something in the ambient that made all three of them in direct contact with the horses entirely uneasy, it was impossible to see what might be more than three buildings away, and hard to focus up into falling snow to check the roofs.

With any luck at all, you will never focus your glims upon Miss Ames, no matter how illustrious her fortune, or by virtue of whatever scheme your papa and her papa concocted so many years ago.

The solution offered by Amel is not to oppose war but to otherwise channel the energies that give rise to it and educate those people who might become its focus.

Now his gaze focused on the cluster of shipping anchored out in Table Bay.

They would share authority, she focused on Argali and he on Ironbridge.

And they were hard at work, but now equipped with a smaller, better focused version of the Argand lamp.

Joe relaxed and focused his yellow eyes questioningly on Asey, who shrugged.