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  • 31focus*/ — [ˈfəʊkəs] (present participle focusing focussing; past tense and past participle focused focussed) verb [I/T] I if your eyes focus, or if you focus your eyes, you look at something carefully until you start to see it clearly It took a while for… …

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  • 32Focus 23 — Infobox musical artist | Name = Focus 23 Landscape = yes Img capt = Jeremy Morrow under a sou wester. Background = group or band Origin = Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Genre = Experimental and/or Drone Years active = 1993 – present Label = Mutant… …

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  • 33focus — 01. You are trying to do too many things at once. It would be better to just [focus] on one thing in order to do it properly. 02. My photos didn t turn out very well. I think my hand must have been shaking a little bit because they re all out of… …

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  • 34focus — I n. 1) to bring smt. into focus 2) in focus; out of focus II v. (D; intr., tr.) to focus on (we must focus our attention on two major problems) * * * [ fəʊkəs] out of focus in focus to bring smt. intofocus (D; intr., tr.) to focus on (we must… …

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  • 35focus — 1. noun 1) schools are a focus of community life Syn: center, focal point, central point, center of attention, hub, pivot, nucleus, heart, cornerstone, linchpin, cynosure 2) the focus is on helping people Syn …

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  • 36focus — /ˈfoʊkəs / (say fohkuhs) noun (plural focuses or foci /ˈfoʊkaɪ/ (say fohkuy), /ˈfoʊki/ (say fohkee), /ˈfoʊsaɪ/ (say fohsuy)) 1. Physics a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation, meet after being refracted or reflected. 2. Optics …

  • 37focus — I. noun (plural foci; also focuses) Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, hearth Date: 1644 1. a. a point at which rays (as of light, heat, or sound) converge or from which they diverge or appear to diverge; specifically the point where the… …

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  • 38focus — focusable, adj. focuser, n. /foh keuhs/, n., pl. focuses, foci / suy, kuy/, v., focused, focusing or (esp. Brit.) focussed, focussing. n. 1. a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the… …

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  • 39focus — n. & v. n. (pl. focuses or foci) 1 Physics a the point at which rays or waves meet after reflection or refraction. b the point from which diverging rays or waves appear to proceed. Also called focal point. 2 a Optics the point at which an object… …

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  • 40focus — 1. (F) The point at which the light rays meet after passing through a convex lens. 2. The center, or the starting point, of a disease process. [L. a hearth] conjugate foci two points so related to a lens or …

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