Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive & intransitive verb To adjust or come to a focus.
- transitive & intransitive verb To bring or be brought to a focus; sharpen.
- transitive & intransitive verb To concentrate or be concentrated; localize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bring to a focus; focus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To bring to a focus; to focus; to concentrate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
focus , or toadjust a focus - verb To
sharpen an image by focusing - verb To
concentrate on a particularlocation ; tolocalize
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb put (an image) into focus
- verb bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions
- verb become focussed or come into focus
- verb concentrate on a particular place or spot
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Examples
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What is today's equivalent of a lunar landing, the mission that can focalize a nation and inspire people to "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country?"
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Is this is true, then it would evolve to some point in the future where focalize valuation of the abstract mind would lead all matters to follow from the point other then in the physical procreation, but in the evolution of our developing minds apart from this animalistic behavior.
Bell curves Sean 2005
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To be able to focalize the mind on the object at hand in a conscious manner leads to concentration.
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The phosphorescence screen is usually a plate covered with some platino-cyanide and mounted in the end of a box of convenient size, the opposite end of which is so shaped that it fits the contour of the face, shutting out the light and allowing the eyes of the observer to focalize on the screen at the end.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904
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Such a construction is particularly stable, as these focalize on the line of interest.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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The bacilli multiply everywhere, but seem for some reason to focalize chiefly in the alimentary canal, and especially the middle part of it, the small intestines.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever they undertake.
How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887
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They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one spot the separate rays of their ability.
How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887
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Most men have ability enough, if they could only focalize it into one grand, central, all-absorbing purpose, to accomplish great things.
How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune Orison Swett Marden 1887
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Two natures meet on the human plane, and focalize in man.
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