Синоним слова focus

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  1. focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centeringnoun

    the concentration of attention or energy on something

    «the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology»; «he had no direction in his life»

    Synonyms:
    direction, guidance, nidus, management, counselling, stress, way, commission, counsel, instruction, focussing, focalisation, snap, centering, counseling, charge, steering, focal point, focalization, focusing

    Antonyms:
    dim, blear, blur, slur

  2. focusnoun

    maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system

    «in focus»; «out of focus»

    Synonyms:
    stress, focal point, focussing, direction, centering, focusing, nidus

    Antonyms:
    slur, blur, blear, dim

  3. focusnoun

    maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea

    «the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion»

    Synonyms:
    stress, focal point, focussing, direction, centering, focusing, nidus

    Antonyms:
    blur, slur, dim, blear

  4. focus, focal point, nidusnoun

    a central point or locus of an infection in an organism

    «the focus of infection»

    Synonyms:
    focal point, focusing, centering, stress, direction, nidus, focussing

    Antonyms:
    blur, blear, dim, slur

  5. stress, focusnoun

    special emphasis attached to something

    «the stress was more on accuracy than on speed»

    Synonyms:
    tenseness, focal point, focusing, emphasis, centering, accent, direction, nidus, tension, strain, focussing, stress

    Antonyms:
    blur, blear, slur, dim

  6. focus, focal pointnoun

    a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

    Synonyms:
    focal point, focusing, centering, stress, direction, nidus, focussing

    Antonyms:
    blear, blur, dim, slur

  7. focusverb

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

    Synonyms:
    stress, focal point, focussing, direction, centering, focusing, nidus

    Antonyms:
    slur, blur, dim, blear

  8. concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivetverb

    direct one’s attention on something

    «Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies»

    Synonyms:
    decoct, center on, concentrate on, concentrate, sharpen, centralise, focus on, concenter, contract, digest, revolve around, condense, focalise, centre, center, boil down, focalize, revolve about, reduce, rivet, pore, concentre, centralize

    Antonyms:
    blear, dim, slur, blur

  9. focusverb

    cause to converge on or toward a central point

    «Focus the light on this image»

    Synonyms:
    center, rivet, concentrate, sharpen, centre, focalise, concentre, pore, focalize, concenter

    Antonyms:
    slur, blur, blear, dim

  10. concenter, concentre, focalize, focalise, focusverb

    bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

    Synonyms:
    concentrate, center, rivet, sharpen, localise, localize, centre, focalise, concentre, pore, focalize, concenter

    Antonyms:
    slur, dim, blur, blear

  11. focus, focalize, focaliseverb

    become focussed or come into focus

    «The light focused»

    Synonyms:
    center, rivet, concentrate, localise, localize, sharpen, centre, focalise, concentre, pore, focalize, concenter

    Antonyms:
    blur, blear, slur, dim

  12. focus, focalize, focalise, sharpenverb

    put (an image) into focus

    «Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie»

    Synonyms:
    center, rivet, concentrate, localise, localize, sharpen, centre, focalise, concentre, taper, point, pore, focalize, heighten, concenter

    Antonyms:
    blur, dim, blear, slur

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    • Point
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  1. List of paraphrases for «focus»:

    concentrate, emphasis, attention, concentration, accent, discussion, focusing, approach, priority, focused, orientation, centre, target, focuses, theme, axis, focussing, interest, spotlight, concentrating, refocus, objective, guidance, direction, heart, reflection, care, concentrated, devote, goal

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  1. Dallas Fed chief Robert Kaplan:

    The Federal Reserve is approaching a critical point in our economic recovery as The Federal Reserve deliberates the future path of monetary policy, unfortunately, the recent focus on my financial disclosure risks becoming a distraction to the Federal Reserve’s execution of that vital work.

  2. Steven Leung:

    Investors put their focus back on the Greece crisis again in the afternoon as Europe’s markets rose on hope of some progress in resolving the debt crisis.

  3. Damian Charles Hurley:

    Looking after my son became my No. 1 task, and it was a joy to have someone else on whom to focus, i was 36 and had been worrying about myself for quite long enough. I stopped doing movies and TV for the first eight years of his life, and I don’t regret it for a moment. I always put him first.

  4. Evelyn Sanguinetti:

    We know the number is incredibly high and we are first place in the whole country when it comes to the numbers of local government we have in Illinois, right now the focus is on the duplication of services. We want to take a look at streamlining that and to save taxpayer money.

  5. Roger Penske:

    The health and safety of our event participants and spectators is our top priority, and we believe that postponing the event is the responsible decision with the conditions and restrictions we are facing, we will continue to focus on ways we can enhance the customer experience in the months ahead, and I’m confident we will welcome fans with a transformed facility and a global spectacle when we run the world’s greatest race.

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  • تركزArabic
  • концентрирам, фокус, фокусирам, съсредоточавам се, концентрирам се, сгъстявамBulgarian
  • enfocar, focusCatalan, Valencian
  • ohniskoCzech
  • fokus, koncentrere, fokusereDanish
  • Fokus, Konzentration, fokussieren, [[sich]] [[konzentrieren]], Epizentrum, BrennpunktGerman
  • ΣυγκεντρώνωGreek
  • fokuso, subcentroEsperanto
  • punto focal, foco, foco de atención, centrar, enfocar, enfoque, hipocentro, concentrarseSpanish
  • fookus, keskendus, epitsenterEstonian
  • tarkentaa, polttopiste, leikkauspiste, keskittyminen, keskittyä, fokusFinnish
  • concentrer, attention, épicentre, focaliser, mettre au point, se concentrer, se focaliser, foyerFrench
  • फोकसHindi
  • su, fuoco, concentrarsiItalian
  • מוֹקֵדHebrew
  • 焦点, 集中, 震央, 注目を集める, 濃縮, 震源, 絞る, ピントを合わせる, フォーカスJapanese
  • 초점, 焦点Korean
  • focusLatin
  • сосредоточува, концентрираMacedonian
  • brandpunt, focusDutch
  • ogniskoPolish
  • foco, enfoque, epicentro, focalizarPortuguese
  • сосредоточиться, [[фокальный, фокус, концентрация, концентрировать, сконцентрировать, средоточие, [[наводка]] [[на]] [[резкость]], фокусировать, сфокусировать, [[концентрация]] [[внимание, сосредоточение, сосредоточивать, сосредоточить, эпицентр, концентрироваться, сконцентрироваться, сосредоточиватьсяRussian
  • brännpunkt, fokus, skärpa, ställa in fokus, koncentrera, fokusera, ställa in skärpan, koncentrera sigSwedish
  • கவனம்Tamil
  • దృష్టిTelugu
  • odak, odaklanmakTurkish

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  • concentrate

    collect, edge

  • focal point

    centre, point

  • heart

    position, point

  • center

    location, start

  • centre

    concentrate, position

  • core

    centre, heart

  • hub

    centre, heart

  • rivet

    concentrate, aim attention at

  • nucleus

    centre, point

  • focalize

    edge

  • concentration

    care, attention

  • aim

    fix, concentrate

  • sharpen

    aim attention at

  • direct

    collect, fix

  • attention

    mindfulness, density

  • headquarters

    focal point, edge

  • cynosure

    centre, center of attraction

  • converge

    concentrate, edge

  • direction

  • pinpoint

    concentrate, address itself to

  • target

    focal point, center of attraction

  • spotlight

    center of attraction, address itself to

  • locus

    central, point of convergence

  • essence

    subject, substance

  • focusing

  • concenter

    aim attention at

  • turn

    collect, aim

  • point

    subject, aim

  • fix

    aim attention at

  • fasten

    aim attention at

  • pivot

    point

  • focussing

  • nidus

  • stress

  • zoom in

  • seat

    edge, center of attraction

  • eye

    care, position

  • matter

    subject, substance

  • topic

    subject

  • theme

    subject

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  • focus [ˈfəʊkəs] сущ

    1. вниманиеср

      (attention)

      • exclusive focus – исключительное внимание

    2. очагм

      (center)

      • natural focus – природный очаг

    3. фокусировкаж, фокусм, фокусированиеср

      (focusing, focal)

      • input focus – фокус ввода

    4. направлениеср, направленностьж

      (direction, orientation)

      • strategic focus – стратегическая направленность

    5. сосредоточениеср

      (concentration)

    6. целенаправленностьж

      (purposefulness)

  • focus [ˈfəʊkəs] гл

    1. фокусировать, сосредоточивать, сосредоточить, сфокусировать, сосредотачивать, сфокусироваться, сконцентрироваться, сконцентрировать, концентрировать

      (concentrate, focus more)

      • focusing system – фокусирующая система
      • focused beam – сфокусированный луч
      • focus solely – сконцентрироваться исключительно

    2. направить, ориентировать, нацелить

      (aim, orient)

    3. сосредоточиться

      (concentrate)

      • focus entirely – сосредоточиться полностью

    4. посвятить

      (devote)

    5. обратить

      (pay)

  • focus [ˈfəʊkəs] прил

    1. фокусный

      (focal)

    2. целевой

      (target)

    3. целенаправленный

      (targeted)

noun
фокус focus, trick, stunt, juggle, pass
центр center, heart, focus, core, headquarters, nucleus
очаг hearth, focus, hotbed, fireplace, furnace, pocket
средоточие center, focus, centre
verb
фокусироваться focus
сфокусировать focus
фокусировать focus
сосредоточиваться focus, concentrate, center, collect, centre
сосредоточивать focus, concentrate, mass, concentre, turn
помещать в фокусе focus
собирать в фокусе focus
собираться в фокусе focus

Предложения со словом «focus»

But today I want to focus on just one finding — perhaps the most important discovery to come from this remarkable study.

Сегодня я бы хотела рассказать вам только об одном открытии — возможно, самом важном выводе из этого выдающегося исследования.

All life on Earth requires water, so in my case I focus on the intimate relationship between water and life in order to understand if we could find life in a planet as dry as Mars.

Жизнь на Земле требует воды, поэтому основное внимание я уделяю тесной взаимосвязи между водой и жизнью, пытаясь понять, возможно ли обнаружить жизнь на такой засушливой планете, как Марс.

Companies today focus on manufacturing what they produce best and most efficiently, and they trade for everything else.

У компаний в наше время в приоритете производство той продукции, которую они производят лучше и эффективнее всех, а всё остальное они покупают.

Although virtual reconstructions are primarily the main focus of our project, some people have been asking the question: Can we print them in 3D?

Хотя цифровые реконструкции — основной фокус нашего проекта, некоторые люди спрашивают: можем ли мы их напечатать в 3D?

I mean, why focus so much attention on something so brief?

Зачем так фокусироваться на чëм — то столь кратковременном?

You remember old-school cameras, where when you took a picture, you actually had to focus .

Помните такие старомодные камеры, когда вы на них фотографировали, вам приходилось их фокусировать .

Instead of handicapping our attention, imagine if we used all of this data and all of this power and this new view of human nature to give us a superhuman ability to focus and a superhuman ability to put our attention to what we cared about and a superhuman ability to have the conversations that we need to have for democracy.

Вместо того, чтобы отвлекаться, представьте, если бы мы использовали максимум возможностей, и этот новый взгляд на природу человека дал бы нам суперспособность сосредотачивать своё внимание на том, что действительно важно, а также суперспособность к переговорам, необходимым для демократии.

They say they feel pretty good about these apps — those that focus on relaxation, exercise, weather, reading, education and health.

Он ответит, что все эти приложения замечательны: они предназначены для отдыха, физической активности, погоды, чтения, образования и здоровья.

Everyone told us, the cost-effective thing is just focus on vaccination and maybe a feeding program.

Каждый говорил нам, что будет экономнее просто сосредоточиться на программе прививок и, может, питания.

So why would people of action focus so much on an ancient philosophy?

Почему же люди действия уделяли такое внимание античной философии?

But for our purposes, chief among them was training yourself to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former.

Для наших целей главным из них было научение себя отличать то, что можешь контролировать, о того, что не в твоей власти, а затем сосредотачиваться исключительно на первом.

I’m going to focus on one that completely changed my life in 2004.

Я хочу рассказать об одном, который перевернул мою жизнь в 2004 — м.

So a person with ADHD cannot inhibit these distractors, and that’s why they can’t focus for a long time on a single task.

Итак, человек с СДВГ не может подавлять факторы, отвлекающие внимание, и поэтому эти люди и не могут долго фокусироваться на одном задании.

Let’s focus on people first.

Давайте сначала рассмотрим людей.

So first, I focus on the big stuff.

Поэтому сначала я смотрю на крупные детали.

This narrows your focus to your immediate lack — to the sandwich you’ve got to have now, the meeting that’s starting in five minutes or the bills that have to be paid tomorrow.

Это сужает фокус внимания до того, чего у вас нет в этот момент: сэндвича, который вы сейчас должны есть, встречи, которая начнётся через пять минут, или счетов, которые нужно оплатить завтра.

I’m going to tell you why: because they focus on weight loss or looking good in skinny jeans without acknowledging the trauma that black women hold in our bellies and bones, that has been embedded in our very DNA.

А вот почему: они направлены на похудение или на то, как хорошо выглядеть в узких джинсах, но не признают травмы, которую чёрные женщины помнят телом и костями, которая впиталась в нашу ДНК.

I wasn’t quite sure what to think, but I just knew that at that moment it was really important for me to just focus right there at the Australian Open, and I was definitely not sure what to do.

Я не была уверена, как поступить, но в тот момент я точно знала: для меня было очень важно сконцентрироваться на Открытом чемпионате Австралии, и я была в замешательстве: что же делать.

These unhealthy cultures that are festering in these groups, where the focus is on meeting regulations and checking boxes as opposed to protecting public health, is just appalling.

Такие нездоровые проявления, словно гной, у групп людей, в центре внимания которых — соблюдение правил и заполнение анкет в противовес защите здоровья людей, просто ужасают.

Gender matters everywhere in the world, but I want to focus on Nigeria and on Africa in general, because it is where I know, and because it is where my heart is.

Вопросы гендера касаются всего мира, но я хочу сосредоточиться на Нигерии и на Африке в целом, потому что я хорошо знаю Африку, и моё сердце принадлежит ей.

What if in raising children we focus on ability instead of gender?

Почему бы при воспитании детей фокусироваться на их возможностях, а не на принадлежности к полу?

What if in raising children we focus on interest instead of gender?

Почему бы не фокусироваться на их интересах, не на гендере?

I made this my area of focus .

Я сделала это своей целью.

We believed in data, but what happened, even with the most respected newspaper, is that the obsession to reduce everything to two simple percentage numbers to make a powerful headline made us focus on these two digits and them alone.

Мы доверяли данным, но произошло то, что даже самые уважаемые газеты, были одержимы желанием упростить всё до процентных чисел, чтобы написать яркий заголовок, что сосредоточило внимание на этих двух числах, и только на них.

Stefanie and I spent one year collecting our data manually to force us to focus on the nuances that computers cannot gather — or at least not yet — using data also to explore our minds and the words we use, and not only our activities.

Мы со Стефани целый год собирали данные вручную для того, чтобы сосредоточиться на нюансах, которые не соберёт компьютер, по крайней мере пока не соберёт, использовали данные для изучения особенностей мышления, используемых слов и не только этого.

Focus on serving and adding value, and it won’t feel like bragging.

Сосредоточьтесь на хорошей работе и достойном вознаграждении, и это не будет хвастовством.

So suddenly, my focus changed.

Внезапно, мой фокус переместился.

This was the focus of our whole lives.

Это было смыслом всей нашей жизни.

Recognizing what little chance he had for survival, his parents chose to focus on the quality of time that they could spend together.

Осознав, что шанс выжить у малыша невелик, родители решили провести оставшееся у малыша время вместе с ним.

Now, if we look at this data intersectionally, which has been a focus of today, the picture becomes even more problematic.

Сейчас если посмотреть, как пересекаются данные, о которых мы сегодня говорим, картина становится ещё более тревожной.

Of course, it led to wars an so forth, but we shouldn’t focus too much on the bad.

Разумеется, он служил причиной войн, но не будем заострять внимание на плохом.

What characterizes sentient beings in contrast to robots, to stones, to whatever, is that sentient beings suffer, can suffer, and what they should focus on is not finding their place in some mysterious cosmic drama.

То, что характеризует существ, способных чувствовать, в отличие от роботов, камней, чего угодно — это то, что они страдают, могут страдать, и им стоит концентрироваться не на поиске своего места в загадочной вселенской драме.

They should focus on understanding what suffering is, what causes it and how to be liberated from it.

Им стоит посвятить себя пониманию природы страдания, что его вызывает и как от него избавиться.

I focus on the most dangerous possibilities partly because this is like my job or responsibility as a historian or social critic.

Я описываю наиболее опасные сценарии частично потому, что вижу в этом свою задачу, ответственность как историка или обществоведа.

They told me about their struggles, they told me about the rough, harsh refugee camp conditions that made it hard to focus on anything but practical chores like collecting clean water.

Они рассказывали о своих усилиях, они рассказывали о суровых, жёстких условиях лагеря, в которых было трудно сосредоточиться на чём угодно, кроме главных потребностей, таких как походы за чистой водой.

With mothers sitting around me as I was conducting a focus group.

Меня окружали матери, так как я проводила занятие для целевой группы.

The girl stayed quiet throughout the focus group, not talking at all, with her knees curled up against her chest.

Девочка вела себя тихо на протяжении всего занятия, не проронив ни слова, прижав колени к груди.

Towards the end of the focus group, and as I was thanking the mothers for their time, the elderly lady looked at me while pointing at the young girl, and said to me, Can you help us with, ?

К концу занятия, когда я благодарила матерей за их время, пожилая женщина взглянула на меня, показала на девочку и спросила: Можете помочь с, ?

Because we found it early during a routine mammogram, we were able to focus primarily on treatment options for the localized tumor, reaffirming to me how important an early diagnosis is.

Поскольку мы обнаружили болезнь рано, с помощью рядовой маммограммы, то смогли сфокусироваться на вариантах лечения локализованной опухоли, что ещё больше убедило меня в важности ранней диагностики.

This is our applied research lab in San Francisco, where one of our areas of focus is advanced robotics, specifically, human-robot collaboration.

Это наша прикладная лаборатория в Сан — Франциско, одно из направлений которой — развитие робототехники, а именно: взаимодействие робота с человеком.

Both of these zones should be part of our lives, but being clear about when we want to be in each of them, with what goal, focus and expectations, helps us better perform and better improve.

Обе эти зоны являются частью нашей жизни, но нужно различать, когда мы хотим быть в каждой из них, какова цель, приоритеты и прогноз — всё это помогает нам быть эффективнее.

We focus all our time on just doing our job, performing.

Мы фокусируемся на выполнении текущих дел, просто работая.

When I needed a knee surgery, I didn’t tell the surgeon, Poke around in there and focus on what you don’t know.

Когда мне была нужна операция на колене, я не сказал хирургу: Потыкай там — сям и поучись на мне.

It can also be motivating, and it provides us with information to identify what to focus on next when we go back to the learning zone.

Также эта зона нас мотивирует и помогает определить, на чём именно нам нужно сосредоточиться по возращению в зону обучения.

So if we can focus the design mind on creating positive, reinforcing relationships in architecture and through architecture, I believe we can do much more than create individual buildings.

Поэтому если мы сосредоточимся на создании чего — то положительного, что укрепляет взаимоотношения посредством архитектуры, то, мы будем создавать нечто более, чем просто отдельные здания.

And I think for some people the focus is not going to be so much on science.

Думаю, некоторые будут делать упор не на науку.

And so if it is justice that we are after, then I think we mustn’t focus on the media or on storytellers.

Раз наша цель — справедливость, то наше внимание должно быть не на СМИ и не на рассказчиках.

We must focus on audiences, on anyone who has ever turned on a radio or listened to a podcast, and that means all of us.

Наше внимание должно быть на слушателях, на тех, кто когда — либо включал радио или слушал подкаст, а это значит, на всех нас.

This theory was later revised, though, when scholars noted the sculptor’s obvious focus on the figurine’s reproductive features: large breasts, considered ideal for nursing, a round, possibly pregnant belly, the remnants of red dye, alluding to menstruation or birth.

Однако эта теория была пересмотрена, когда учёные заметили, что скульптор явно уделил внимание репродуктивным органам: большая грудь считалась идеальной для кормления, круглый живот может свидетельствовать о беременности, следы красной краски намекают на менструацию или роды.

If we focus on the simple goal of properly nourishing ourselves, we could see a world that is more stable and secure, we could dramatically improve our economic productivity, we could transform our health care and we could go a long way in ensuring that the Earth can provide for generations to come.

Если мы поставим целью правильно питаться, то мир станет стабильнее и безопаснее, существенно повысятся экономические показатели, в лучшую сторону изменится здравоохранение, и в конце концов мы сможем добиться сохранения ресурсов Земли для будущих поколений.

And when we focus on what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.

И когда мы фокусируемся на том, что важно, мы можем построить желаемую жизнь за то время, что у нас есть.

So we developed drugs to more specifically focus on serotonin, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, so the SSRIs, the most famous of which is Prozac.

Были разработаны селективные ингибиторы обратного захвата серотонина (СИОЗС), самый известный из которых — Прозак.

Is not only does it help you hear, you can focus your hearing, so it can hear the conversation going on over there.

Они не просто помогают лучше слышать, вы можете направлять свой слух и слушать разговор вон там.

And I want to focus on mathematics.

Я хочу обратиться к математике.

They want to focus on long-term economic stability and growth.

Они хотят сосредоточиться на долгосрочной экономической стабильности и подъёме.

Or, given the urgency, what they’ll do is they’ll just focus on the short-term results, but that doesn’t give any hope for the future.

Либо, учитывая срочность, руководители сосредотачиваются на краткосрочных результатах, что не даёт никакой надежды на будущее.

To do that, we need to focus on five strategic imperatives, all of which have one thing in common: putting people first.

Для этого нужно сосредоточиться на пяти стратегических задачах, объединённых общей особенностью: главное внимание — людям.

While each of these has had a very specific focus , the North Star, linking and guiding all of them, has been Lego’s powerful purpose: inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.

Все они имели узкую направленность, но была путеводная звезда, которая объединяла и направляла их, — главная цель LEGO: вдохновлять и развивать будущих строителей.

I can either focus on sonnets or free verse.

Я не могу выбрать, мне писать сонеты или верлибр?

Now I can focus on my solo straw stuff.

Теперь я могу сконцентрироваться на личных штуках с соломинкой.

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What is another word for focus?

1509 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ fˈə͡ʊkəs], [ fˈə‍ʊkəs], [ f_ˈəʊ_k_ə_s]

Related words: what to focus on, focus on health, focus on wealth, focus on happiness, focus on purpose, focus on relationships

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    • adj.

      • Other relevant words: (adjective)

      • position.

    • n.

        •

      • pop,
      • open,
      • shut,
      • see.
        •

      • edge,
      • darkroom,
      • headquarters,
      • camcorder,
      • aperture,
      • cartridge,
      • boom,
      • developer,
      • celluloid,
      • camera,
      • Asa,
      • seat,
      • digicam.
        •

      • noticeable,
      • visible,
      • root,
      • apparent,
      • start,
      • obvious,
      • identifiable,
      • show up,
      • bottom,
      • distinct,
      • quick,
      • manifest,
      • perceptible,
      • plain.
        •

      • bend,
      • filter,
      • flood.
        •

      • capture.
        •

      • sit up and take notice,
      • concern yourself.
        •

      • sticking point,
      • starting point.

      • attribute (noun)

      • focus.

      • center (noun)

      • bullseye,
      • cross road,
      • inter mediacy,
      • in side,
      • bulls eye,
      • omphaloses,
      • middle the road,
      • inter mediacies,
      • bull-eye,
      • inter-mediacy,
      • social centers,
      • in sides,
      • bull eye,
      • equidistances,
      • bulleye,
      • inter-mediacies,
      • middle of road,
      • cynosures,
      • middle road,
      • in-side,
      • trading centers,
      • bull’seye,
      • intermediacies,
      • radial points,
      • cross roads,
      • Centrioles,
      • Centrums.

      • centering (noun)

      • centering.

      • center of attraction (noun)

      • target,
      • focal point,
      • point of convergence,
      • limelight,
      • locus,
      • spotlight.

      • centre (noun)

      • centre.

      • concentre (noun)

      • concentre.

      • convergence (noun)

      • concentration,
      • convergence,
      • meeting.

      • core (noun)

      • up-shot,
      • main ideas,
      • up-shots,
      • meat potatoes,
      • up shot,
      • up shots.

      • definition (noun)

      • definition.

      • direction (noun)

      • direction.

      • focalise (noun)

      • focalise.

      • focal point (noun)

      • center of attention.

      • focus (noun)

      • rendezvous,
      • intersection,
      • magnet,
      • essence,
      • epitome,
      • soul,
      • bottleneck,
      • focussing,
      • focusing,
      • plenum,
      • gathering,
      • stress,
      • axle,
      • marrow,
      • kernel,
      • crux,
      • rally,
      • forum,
      • spirit,
      • nidus,
      • crossing,
      • asymptote,
      • funnel,
      • meat,
      • lodestar,
      • lure.

      • forefront (noun)

      • fore-front,
      • fore front.

      • forefront/foreground (noun)

      • fore parts,
      • cutting-edges,
      • fore-fronts,
      • be ginning,
      • leadingedges,
      • fore ground,
      • cuttingedges,
      • leadingedge,
      • fore grounds,
      • fore-parts,
      • fore-grounds,
      • state-of-the-arts,
      • be-ginning,
      • fore-ground,
      • cuttingedge,
      • state of the arts,
      • leading-edges,
      • fore fronts.

      • heart (noun)

      • coal and ices,
      • coal and ice,
      • coal ices,
      • coal ice.

      • highlight (noun)

      • highlights,
      • main features,
      • high spot,
      • main feature,
      • high points,
      • best part,
      • high point.

      • in focus (noun)

      • clear,
      • share,
      • well-defined.

      • matter (noun)

      • re solutions,
      • re-solution,
      • re-solutions.

      • meeting place (noun)

      • meeting house,
      • gathering place,
      • meeting point,
      • meeting houses.

      • middle (noun)

      • halfway points,
      • halfways,
      • halfway,
      • half-way,
      • mid-section,
      • midsection,
      • midriffs,
      • midriff,
      • midsections,
      • halfway point,
      • thicks.

      • midpoint (noun)

      • mid points,
      • mid point.

      • nerve center (noun)

      • head quarters,
      • Ganglia,
      • esoteric reality,
      • control center,
      • switchboards,
      • intrinsic reality,
      • epicenters,
      • inner reality,
      • epicenter,
      • Ganglions,
      • vital principle,
      • vital center,
      • ganglion,
      • switchboard,
      • HQS.

      • nitty-gritty (noun)

      • essential parts,
      • the name of the game,
      • name of game,
      • chief part,
      • the facts,
      • hard fact,
      • essential details,
      • nitty gritty,
      • chief thing,
      • cold fact,
      • important matter,
      • essential part,
      • hard facts,
      • heart of the matter.

      • nucleus (noun)

      • pre mises,
      • pre mise,
      • pre-mises,
      • beginning buds,
      • pre-mise.

      • object (noun)

      • ground zeros,
      • ground zeroes.

      • Other relevant words: (noun)

      • mainstreams,
      • foreground,
      • heart,
      • Intermediacy,
      • meeting place,
      • mid-point,
      • polestar,
      • polestars,
      • cynosure,
      • mainstream,
      • Centralities,
      • leading-edge,
      • navels,
      • motifs,
      • cross-roads,
      • hub,
      • Foci,
      • nerve center,
      • centrality,
      • forefronts,
      • Cross-road,
      • mecca,
      • middle,
      • trading center,
      • main idea,
      • bull’s eye,
      • premise,
      • object,
      • nitty-gritty,
      • substance,
      • station,
      • piths,
      • Equidistance,
      • nave,
      • staples,
      • cutting-edge,
      • matter,
      • forefront,
      • social center,
      • Gravamen,
      • Centra,
      • centrum,
      • radial point,
      • highlight,
      • nucleus,
      • Fore part,
      • core,
      • hotbed,
      • on the line,
      • quicks,
      • omphalos,
      • import,
      • forepart,
      • receiver,
      • foreparts,
      • fore-part,
      • ground zero,
      • on line,
      • importance,
      • fores,
      • mart,
      • midpoint,
      • center,
      • hotbeds,
      • mid-points,
      • bulls-eye,
      • centriole,
      • beginning bud,
      • naves.

      • out of focus (noun)

      • hazy,
      • ill-defined,
      • muzzy.

      • substance (noun)

      • Virtuality,
      • essentiality,
      • way of it,
      • general meaning.

    • v.

      • adjust (verb)

      • brought into line,
      • re pair,
      • bringing into line,
      • over hauling,
      • improved accommodate,
      • bringing in to line,
      • over haul,
      • re-adjusts,
      • improving accommodate,
      • over-hauling,
      • put working order,
      • putting in working order,
      • troubleshot,
      • brought in to line,
      • troubleshooted,
      • re adjusting,
      • over hauled,
      • re-paired,
      • over hauls,
      • puts in working order,
      • putting working order,
      • re adjust,
      • puts working order,
      • brings in to line,
      • re-adjusted,
      • re pairs,
      • re adjusts,
      • re pairing,
      • finetune,
      • re-adjusting,
      • re adjusted,
      • over-haul,
      • bring in to line,
      • re-pairs,
      • over-hauled,
      • improves accommodate,
      • over-hauls,
      • re-pair,
      • re-pairing,
      • re paired,
      • brings into line.

      • aim (verb)

      • in-tends,
      • setting one’s sights on,
      • de sign,
      • in tend,
      • zeroing on,
      • zeroed on,
      • in tends,
      • pro pose,
      • zeroes in on,
      • de-signs,
      • in-tended,
      • de signing,
      • zeroing in on,
      • in tended,
      • zeroed in on,
      • pro-posing,
      • de-sign,
      • setting sights on,
      • in-tending,
      • pro posed,
      • setting ones sights on,
      • zoom in,
      • set ones sights on,
      • de-signing,
      • sets one sights on,
      • sets one’s sights on,
      • zoomed in,
      • de-signed,
      • zooms in,
      • zooming in,
      • de signs,
      • sets ones sights on,
      • zeroes on,
      • sets sights on,
      • in tending,
      • in-tend,
      • pro-pose,
      • set sights on,
      • set one sights on,
      • de signed,
      • pro posing,
      • setting one sights on.

      • aim attention at (verb)

      • bring out,
      • home in on,
      • convene,
      • sweat,
      • move in,
      • pinpoint,
      • fasten,
      • attract,
      • key on,
      • join,
      • hone in,
      • get detail,
      • home in,
      • knuckle down,
      • sharpen,
      • meet.

      • center (verb)

      • Concentering,
      • brings to a focus,
      • bring focus,
      • closes on,
      • bring a focus,
      • Concentered,
      • converged up on,
      • brought focus,
      • concenters,
      • brought to focus,
      • brought a focus,
      • closing on,
      • medializes,
      • bringing to focus,
      • brings to focus,
      • converges up on,
      • converges upon,
      • converge up on,
      • brings focus,
      • medializing,
      • converged upon,
      • converging up on,
      • converging upon,
      • bring to focus,
      • medialized,
      • closed on,
      • bringing a focus,
      • bringing focus,
      • brought to a focus,
      • brings a focus,
      • bringing to a focus.

      • cognition (verb)

      • pore.

      • concentrate (verb)

      • considers closely,
      • gives attention,
      • pouring it on,
      • were engrossed in,
      • pouring on,
      • gat to meat,
      • racked one’s brains,
      • got to the meat,
      • cracking brains,
      • being engrossed in,
      • gotten meat,
      • gotten the beam,
      • gets to the meat,
      • racked brains,
      • cracked one’s brains,
      • fixing attention,
      • draws together,
      • re-duce,
      • gat beam,
      • focussing attention,
      • broods over,
      • considered closely,
      • focussed attention,
      • gotten beam,
      • getting beam,
      • gat to the meat,
      • gotten to meat,
      • drew together,
      • cracking one brains,
      • get the beam,
      • gets the beam,
      • cracking ones brains,
      • get beam,
      • bring bear,
      • poured it on,
      • racked ones brains,
      • gets the meat,
      • gets on the beam,
      • hammering away at,
      • cracks one’s brains,
      • is engrossed in,
      • fixed attention,
      • rack one brains,
      • getting on beam,
      • gotten on the beam,
      • crack brains,
      • gotten to the meat,
      • got to meat,
      • wert engrossed in,
      • poured on,
      • heads trip,
      • got on beam,
      • racking one’s brains,
      • heading trip,
      • getting to the meat,
      • racks brains,
      • racked one brains,
      • hammered away at,
      • zeroes in,
      • puts mind to,
      • occupies thoughts,
      • got on the beam,
      • gets beam,
      • get on beam,
      • considering closely,
      • got meat,
      • cracked brains,
      • gat the meat,
      • putting mind to,
      • cracks ones brains,
      • racking brains,
      • rack ones brains,
      • get meat,
      • was engrossed in,
      • getting on the beam,
      • getting meat,
      • getting the beam,
      • cracks brains,
      • racks one’s brains,
      • brooded over,
      • heaped up,
      • wast engrossed in,
      • focuses attention,
      • cracks one brains,
      • gat meat,
      • fixes attention,
      • occupying thoughts,
      • pours on,
      • racking one brains,
      • gotten the meat,
      • hammers away at,
      • am engrossed in,
      • focusses attention,
      • gat on the beam,
      • brooding over,
      • rivetting,
      • re duces,
      • gotten on beam,
      • cracking one’s brains,
      • crack one brains,
      • got beam,
      • cracked ones brains,
      • getting the meat,
      • fixt attention,
      • are engrossed in,
      • gets meat,
      • occupied thoughts,
      • getting to meat,
      • zeroing in,
      • directing attention,
      • re-duces,
      • thought hard,
      • gets on beam,
      • headed trip,
      • directed attention,
      • pours it on,
      • rivetted,
      • gat the beam,
      • thinking hard,
      • crack ones brains,
      • focusing attention,
      • got the meat,
      • thinks hard,
      • gat on beam,
      • heaps up,
      • gave attention,
      • racking ones brains,
      • gets to meat,
      • got the beam,
      • directs attention,
      • cracked one brains,
      • re duce,
      • racks ones brains,
      • get the meat,
      • racks one brains.

      • converge (verb)

      • intercept,
      • approach,
      • unite,
      • merge.

      • direct (verb)

      • pointed the way,
      • in cline,
      • in clines,
      • pre-sents,
      • pointing way,
      • points the way,
      • in-cline,
      • moves in,
      • point way,
      • pre-sent,
      • sighting on,
      • sighted on,
      • pointed way,
      • moved in,
      • sights on,
      • pre sent,
      • points way,
      • pointing the way,
      • in-clines.

      • discern (verb)

      • fore-see,
      • be-holds,
      • getting picture,
      • gotten load of,
      • saw the light,
      • dis covers,
      • got load of,
      • getting a load of,
      • re marking,
      • getting the picture,
      • gat the picture,
      • be-holding,
      • fore-sees,
      • fore sees,
      • dis criminated,
      • gets load of,
      • dis-covered,
      • re marks,
      • secerns,
      • dis cern,
      • gets the picture,
      • discrepating,
      • sees through,
      • dis-criminated,
      • get load of,
      • gotten picture,
      • be-held,
      • gat a load of,
      • re-marking,
      • sees the light,
      • dis-cern,
      • got the picture,
      • be holds,
      • re mark,
      • dis criminates,
      • dis criminating,
      • got wise to,
      • re-marks,
      • gotten a load of,
      • get picture,
      • discrepated,
      • made distinction,
      • dis covering,
      • seeing the light,
      • seeing light,
      • gets picture,
      • got a load of,
      • dis-criminating,
      • dis cover,
      • makes distinction,
      • dis-criminates,
      • dis-cover,
      • re marked,
      • dis-criminate,
      • fore-seeing,
      • gotten the picture,
      • fore see,
      • fore seeing,
      • be holding,
      • getting load of,
      • saw light,
      • fore saw,
      • severalizes,
      • gotten wise to,
      • figures out,
      • gets wise to,
      • got picture,
      • saw through,
      • severalized,
      • gat wise to,
      • making distinction,
      • dis criminate,
      • dis-covering,
      • be-hold,
      • Secerning,
      • fore-seen,
      • gets a load of,
      • gat picture,
      • sees light,
      • getting wise to,
      • fore seen,
      • severalizing,
      • dis-covers,
      • fore-saw,
      • re-marked,
      • gat load of,
      • discrepates,
      • dis covered.

      • distinguish (verb)

      • picked up on,
      • gets eyeful,
      • got eyeful,
      • re cognizing,
      • getting eyeful,
      • getting an eyeful,
      • re cognizes,
      • picking upon,
      • re cognized,
      • get eyeful,
      • gets an eyeful,
      • picks on,
      • pick upon,
      • gat an eyeful,
      • gotten an eyeful,
      • re-cognized,
      • picks upon,
      • gotten eyeful,
      • picked upon,
      • gat eyeful,
      • re cognize,
      • picks up on,
      • re-cognizing.

      • focus (verb)

      • intersect,
      • gather.

      • gape (verb)

      • gave the eye,
      • gives the eye,
      • giving eye,
      • sizes up,
      • gives eye,
      • give eye,
      • gave eye,
      • giving the eye,
      • sized up.

      • look (verb)

      • feasts one’s eyes,
      • taking in the sights,
      • takes sights,
      • re-gard,
      • feasted ones eyes,
      • taking gander,
      • feasted one eyes,
      • be ware,
      • be-waring,
      • in spects,
      • be-wared,
      • took in sights,
      • took gander,
      • in-spect,
      • took a gander,
      • be-wares,
      • feasting ones eyes,
      • takes gander,
      • took sights,
      • takes the sights,
      • be wared,
      • feast ones eyes,
      • feasts eyes,
      • taking sights,
      • pored over,
      • pores over,
      • taking the sights,
      • feast eyes,
      • took in the sights,
      • take the sights,
      • be waring,
      • be wares,
      • feasting eyes,
      • feasting one eyes,
      • took the sights,
      • takes in sights,
      • taking a gander,
      • feasted eyes,
      • takes a gander,
      • re gards,
      • feasts one eyes,
      • taking in sights,
      • feasted one’s eyes,
      • feasting one’s eyes,
      • take in sights,
      • take gander,
      • feast one eyes,
      • in-spects,
      • be-ware,
      • takes in the sights,
      • feasts ones eyes,
      • in spect,
      • take sights.

      • ogle (verb)

      • eagles eye,
      • gaping at,
      • makes eyes at,
      • looking fixedly,
      • gaped at,
      • eagling eye,
      • eagled eye,
      • making eyes at,
      • gapes at.

      • Other relevant words: (verb)

      • centralize.

      • peer (verb)

      • glimmed,
      • glimming.

      • put (verb)

      • in vests,
      • de-posits,
      • re-sting,
      • de posited,
      • plunks down,
      • in-vest,
      • de-positing,
      • in stalled,
      • planked down,
      • in vest,
      • plunking down,
      • de posits,
      • in-vesting,
      • in-stall,
      • re-pose,
      • de posit,
      • re sting,
      • in-vested,
      • re pose,
      • plunked down,
      • in-stalled,
      • de-posit,
      • planks down,
      • re posed,
      • de positing,
      • in vested,
      • re-posed,
      • in-vests,
      • in stalling,
      • in sert,
      • planking down,
      • de-posited,
      • in-sert,
      • in-stalling.

      • slant (verb)

      • co-loring,
      • co loring.

      • train (verb)

      • gat one’s sights,
      • drew bead,
      • got in ones sights,
      • gets ones sights,
      • gotten in one’s sights,
      • get one’s sights,
      • getting in ones sights,
      • gets in sights,
      • gat in one sights,
      • gotten in ones sights,
      • drawing bead,
      • getting sights,
      • gat in one’s sights,
      • gotten sights,
      • gets sights,
      • getting in one’s sights,
      • get in ones sights,
      • getting in sights,
      • gotten in one sights,
      • gotten in sights,
      • get ones sights,
      • get in one sights,
      • gotten one sights,
      • getting one’s sights,
      • got ones sights,
      • gat in ones sights,
      • got one’s sights,
      • got in one’s sights,
      • draws a bead,
      • get one sights,
      • get in sights,
      • got sights,
      • gat ones sights,
      • gets in one sights,
      • got one sights,
      • got in sights,
      • gets one’s sights,
      • gat sights,
      • draw bead,
      • get sights,
      • drew a bead,
      • gets one sights,
      • getting ones sights,
      • gets in ones sights,
      • gat in sights,
      • gotten ones sights,
      • getting in one sights,
      • draws bead,
      • drawing a bead,
      • gotten one’s sights,
      • getting one sights,
      • gets in one’s sights,
      • got in one sights,
      • gat one sights.

      • watch (verb)

      • hath look-see,
      • eagleeye,
      • hast look see,
      • eagleeying,
      • eagle eyed,
      • hath looksee,
      • hadst a looksee,
      • have a look see,
      • eagle-eyeing,
      • hath look see,
      • hast look-see,
      • have look see,
      • has look-see,
      • hast a look see,
      • gives once over,
      • had looksee,
      • haddest looksee,
      • giving the once over,
      • haddest look-see,
      • haddest a looksee,
      • payed attention,
      • have look-see,
      • kept eye on,
      • hadst a look see,
      • gives the once over,
      • hadst looksee,
      • hast looksee,
      • gave once over,
      • eagle-eyes,
      • took notice,
      • eagle eying,
      • hath a looksee,
      • kept tabs on,
      • hast a looksee,
      • having look see,
      • eagle-eying,
      • has a look see,
      • giving once over,
      • gave the once over,
      • had a look see,
      • keeping tabs on,
      • has a look-see,
      • give once over,
      • keeping an eye on,
      • having a look see,
      • have looksee,
      • hath a look see,
      • eagleeyed,
      • eagle eyeing,
      • haddest look see,
      • pays attention,
      • had a look-see,
      • takes notice,
      • eagleeyeing,
      • having a look-see,
      • has looksee,
      • keeping eye on,
      • keep eye on,
      • has a looksee,
      • hath a look-see,
      • haddest a look see,
      • keeps eye on,
      • hadst look see,
      • has look see,
      • having a looksee,
      • haddest a look-see,
      • hadst a look-see,
      • hadst look-see,
      • hast a look-see,
      • had a looksee,
      • keeps tabs on,
      • eagleeyes,
      • had look see,
      • had look-see,
      • having looksee,
      • having look-see.

    • Other synonyms:

        •

      • squeeze,
      • refract,
      • introspection,
      • squint,
      • pierce,
      • soul-searching,
      • self-examination,
      • forethought,
      • navel-gazing,
      • point of order,
      • blink,
      • hone in on,
      • diffusion,
      • water,
      • reasoning,
      • side issue,
      • screw up,
      • get with,
      • photograph,
      • self-analysis,
      • waver,
      • feature.
        •

      • contention,
      • sidelight,
      • devote,
      • reflective,
      • meditation,
      • particularity,
      • gestation,
      • contemplation,
      • self-study,
      • intensity,
      • bounce off,
      • rethink,
      • inference,
      • listen,
      • reflect,
      • look to.
        •

      • fade,
      • eye,
      • assessment,
      • latch onto,
      • sensitize,
      • bathe,
      • zoom,
      • dedicate,
      • pap,
      • logic.
        •

      • item,
      • deduction,
      • reflection,
      • caution,
      • buckle,
      • compose,
      • calculation,
      • induction,
      • consideration,
      • channel,
      • thinking,
      • spill,
      • thought.
        •

      • retake,
      • expose,
      • unload,
      • thrust.
        •

      • travel,
      • apply,
      • turn to,
      • blow up,
      • consider,
      • print.
        •

      • process.
        •

      • address.
        •

      • shoot.
        •

      • play.
        •

      • guide.
        •

      • fix,
      • fall,
      • strike,
      • develop,
      • follow.
        •

      • come out.
        •

      • catch.
        •

      • track,
      • give.
        •

      • turn.

      • centralize

      • streamline,
      • integrate,
      • streamlines,
      • streamlining.

      • converge

      • coming together,
      • come together,
      • enter in,
      • comes together.

      • direct

      • point the way,
      • sight on,
      • Shepherding,
      • Piloted,
      • moving in,
      • Shepherded,
      • Escorted,
      • piloting.

      • distinguish

      • eyeballs,
      • got an eyeful,
      • picking up on,
      • pick up on,
      • eyeball,
      • get an eyeful,
      • eyeballing,
      • eyeballed.

      • look at

      • watch.

      • Other relevant words:

      • Glim,
      • see through,
      • ogle,
      • improve accommodate,
      • brood over,
      • set one’s sights on,
      • picking out,
      • fine tune,
      • concentrate,
      • rack one’s brains,
      • drawing together,
      • see the light,
      • be hold,
      • heap up,
      • scoped,
      • Embedding,
      • lines up,
      • distinguish,
      • medialize,
      • Targeted,
      • plank,
      • levels,
      • make eyes at,
      • Conglomerating,
      • planking,
      • feast one’s eyes,
      • crack one’s brains,
      • think hard,
      • plank down,
      • put mind to,
      • Differenced,
      • pay attention,
      • Massing,
      • Re-mark,
      • get to meat,
      • plop,
      • take in the sights,
      • converge,
      • Agglomerating,
      • targeting,
      • get wise to,
      • close on,
      • aim,
      • calibrating,
      • Peeping,
      • calibrate,
      • line up,
      • paying attention,
      • occupy thoughts,
      • get to the meat,
      • focalizes,
      • Meditated,
      • stare,
      • train,
      • rubberneck,
      • Ogling,
      • oriented,
      • peer,
      • seeing through,
      • eagle-eye,
      • have a look-see,
      • GLIMS,
      • Secerned,
      • Ogled,
      • put in working order,
      • Endeavoring,
      • bringing together,
      • zero in,
      • paid attention,
      • brought together,
      • heaping up,
      • give attention,
      • fixate,
      • Gazed,
      • make distinction,
      • zeroed in,
      • grind,
      • zero in on,
      • bring to a focus,
      • give the eye,
      • discern,
      • look fixedly,
      • figure out,
      • rivet,
      • draw a bead,
      • Peering,
      • converge upon,
      • bring into line,
      • have a looksee,
      • gape at,
      • Conglomerated,
      • troubleshoots,
      • Differencing,
      • calibrated,
      • consider closely,
      • forgathered,
      • made eyes at,
      • servicing,
      • focalize,
      • take notice,
      • secern,
      • picked out,
      • pick out,
      • giving attention,
      • forgathering,
      • readjust,
      • zero on,
      • slant,
      • get the picture,
      • get a load of,
      • Planked,
      • pore over,
      • give the once over,
      • rack brains,
      • fix attention,
      • agglomerated,
      • slanting,
      • staring,
      • wish,
      • rivets,
      • forgather,
      • embodies,
      • taking notice,
      • pour on,
      • direct attention,
      • size up,
      • focus attention,
      • bring together,
      • lining up,
      • see light,
      • looks fixedly,
      • Focalizing,
      • be engrossed in,
      • squared,
      • hammer away at,
      • weighted,
      • leer,
      • concenter,
      • kept an eye on,
      • picks out,
      • adjust,
      • discrepate,
      • poring over,
      • figured out,
      • readjusted,
      • re-adjust,
      • scoping,
      • draw together,
      • troubleshooting,
      • keep an eye on,
      • plunk down,
      • troubleshoot,
      • get on the beam,
      • looked fixedly,
      • be held,
      • look,
      • take a gander,
      • direct,
      • get in one’s sights,
      • gape,
      • brings together,
      • Focalized,
      • weighting,
      • forgathers,
      • put,
      • serviced,
      • keep tabs on,
      • level,
      • severalize,
      • calibrates,
      • pour it on,
      • Riveted,
      • figuring out.

      • physics

      • magnetic pole,
      • magnetic field,
      • grand unified theory,
      • density,
      • specific gravity.

      • Other relevant words (noun):

      • force,
      • spoke,
      • rake up,
      • strength,
      • release,
      • elixir,
      • sharpness,
      • amplify,
      • oven,
      • heat up,
      • vehemence,
      • idea,
      • warming pan,
      • out of focus,
      • hot up,
      • adductor,
      • cast,
      • prime focus,
      • site,
      • subtilize,
      • hone,
      • convoke,
      • specialised,
      • narrow,
      • pith,
      • attention,
      • large,
      • congress,
      • demarcation,
      • pin up,
      • sense,
      • focus of attention,
      • assemble,
      • abysmal,
      • principle,
      • quiddity,
      • get together,
      • impart,
      • retort,
      • clearness,
      • rich,
      • freeze,
      • magnify,
      • in focus,
      • delineation,
      • fuzzy,
      • consolidate,
      • Combustion chamber,
      • counseling,
      • postulate,
      • refine,
      • lucidity,
      • augment,
      • muffle furnace,
      • revolve around,
      • wide,
      • think,
      • center upon,
      • text,
      • stove,
      • distinctness,
      • fundamentals,
      • drift,
      • revolve about,
      • midst,
      • immerse,
      • cunning,
      • colligate,
      • centralise,
      • amass,
      • stuff,
      • refocus,
      • dense,
      • axiom,
      • agglomerate,
      • group,
      • boil down,
      • electric heater,
      • concentrate on,
      • alembic,
      • navel,
      • thick,
      • passion,
      • heighten,
      • steer,
      • compile,
      • pin,
      • focalisation,
      • fundamental,
      • contract,
      • zeal,
      • aggroup,
      • digest,
      • deepen,
      • concourse,
      • counsel,
      • clarity,
      • urn,
      • engross,
      • store,
      • indistinct,
      • focalization,
      • stick on,
      • lump together,
      • acutance,
      • resolution,
      • centralized,
      • place of assignation,
      • radius,
      • center of attraction,
      • woolly,
      • guidance,
      • sincerity,
      • cluster,
      • put together,
      • reinforce,
      • goal,
      • trysting place,
      • rallying point,
      • accumulate,
      • pile,
      • kettle,
      • nub,
      • central,
      • pack,
      • attractant,
      • focal length,
      • hold,
      • pivot,
      • spokes,
      • pour forth,
      • board game,
      • collocate,
      • radiate,
      • fascinating,
      • strengthen,
      • quintessence,
      • salamander,
      • clinch,
      • nature,
      • muster,
      • glue,
      • crucible,
      • unclear,
      • precision,
      • issue,
      • profound,
      • blurred,
      • focused,
      • Concentrating,
      • place,
      • incline,
      • shed,
      • emphasize,
      • ardour,
      • energy,
      • accent,
      • delimitation,
      • capital,
      • redouble,
      • limit,
      • butt,
      • emphasis,
      • collect,
      • public eye,
      • tend,
      • special,
      • forcefulness,
      • Reverberatory,
      • confluence,
      • narrow down,
      • quarry,
      • Convocate,
      • spread,
      • center of interest,
      • center of consciousness,
      • nail,
      • still,
      • cram,
      • power,
      • accentuation,
      • flower,
      • whip in,
      • clench,
      • significance,
      • Hypocaust,
      • electric furnace,
      • kiln,
      • adjust a lens,
      • hearth,
      • esoteric,
      • broad,
      • emphasise,
      • focal,
      • theme,
      • mass,
      • Athanor,
      • delimit,
      • set,
      • specialized,
      • decide,
      • compass,
      • base,
      • heap,
      • collision course,
      • forge,
      • quid,
      • conform,
      • Tuyere,
      • tangent,
      • attach,
      • let fall,
      • details,
      • condense,
      • converging,
      • tenseness,
      • determine,
      • sap,
      • buckle down,
      • induction furnace,
      • concurrence,
      • nerve,
      • destination,
      • lay down,
      • commit,
      • limpidity,
      • tack,
      • cryptic,
      • cracker,
      • club,
      • get,
      • heater,
      • confine,
      • vigour,
      • enthralling,
      • strain,
      • escalate,
      • way,
      • conflux,
      • Attrahent,
      • centricalness,
      • caldron,
      • cradle,
      • scrape together,
      • double,
      • shine,
      • bring into focus,
      • pointing,
      • DO,
      • enhance,
      • blurry,
      • whet,
      • depot,
      • quicken,
      • essential,
      • gist,
      • pot,
      • abbreviate,
      • gather together,
      • heartfelt,
      • limekiln,
      • secure,
      • fountain-head,
      • tension,
      • grave,
      • deep,
      • aggregate,
      • guts,
      • acervate,
      • restrict,
      • focus on,
      • increase,
      • fervour,
      • hypostasis,
      • strong,
      • grade,
      • engulf,
      • charge,
      • truss,
      • center on,
      • Outlining,
      • dredge,
      • boiler,
      • sighting,
      • furnace,
      • intensify,
      • stick up,
      • attend,
      • dark,
      • point,
      • engrossing,
      • basics,
      • brasier,
      • volcano,
      • decoct,
      • throw.

    How to use «Focus» in context?

    People often talk about «focus» as if it’s a singular quality or skill. But it’s not. It’s a combination of many things, including discipline, motivation, and attention to detail. All of which are essential for productivity and success.

    To be able to focus, you need to be disciplined. You need to be motivated to stay focused, and you need to be attentive to detail. But it’s not only about being able to stay focused for long periods of time. You also need to be able to shift your focus quickly and effectively.

    If you can focus, you can achieve success in any area of your life.

    Paraphrases for Focus:

    Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:

    • Equivalence

      • Adjective
        concentrated, emphasis, focused, focussed.
      • Proper noun, singular
        concentration, focused, focusing, focussed, Concentrations, concentrates.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        concentration, emphasis, focusing, focussing, concentrates.
      • Adverb
        concentration.
      • Verb, past tense
        concentrated.
      • Verb, past participle
        concentrated.
      • Verb, base form
        orientate.

    • Forward Entailment

      • Preposition or subordinating conjunction
        emphasis.
      • Proper noun, singular
        emphasis.

    • Reverse Entailment

      • Noun, singular or mass
        refocusing.
      • Verb, base form
        refocus, re-focus.

    • Independent

      • Adjective
        food-for-thought.
      • Proper noun, singular
        concentrated, Axes, women, Concentrating, ministers, meetings, stresses, principles, speakers, units, panels, groupings.
      • Noun, plural
        responses, minds, endeavours.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        aspect, centralization, crux, epicentre, forefront, hotbed, insistence, limelight, prominence, specialization, stress, Concentrating.
      • Verb, past tense
        held, scheduled.
      • Verb, past participle
        emphasized, placed, stressed, underscored.
      • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
        emphasise, insist, related, stress, underscore, AM.
      • Verb, base form
        confine, converge, dwell, emphasise, insist, prioritise, revolve, sharpen, stress, underscore, articles, sections.

    • Other Related

      • Coordinating conjunction
        emphasis.
      • Proper noun, singular
        discussions.
      • Noun, singular or mass
        centrepiece.
      • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
        devote, emphasis.
      • Verb, 3rd person singular present
        concentrates.
      • Verb, base form
        devote, emphasis, concentrates.

    Hyponym for Focus:

    • n.

      • attribute
        distinctness, Lucidness, sharpness, lucidity, clarity, pellucidity, limpidity, clearness.
      • location
        point.

    • v.

      • cognition
        cerebrate, cogitate, think.
      • perception
        sharpen.

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          n  

    1    bull’s eye, centre, centre of activity, centre of attraction, core, cynosure, focal point, headquarters, heart, hub, meeting place, target  

    2    in focus      clear, distinct, sharp-edged, sharply defined  

    3    out of focus      blurred, fuzzy, ill-defined, indistinct, muzzy, unclear  
          vb  

    4    aim, bring to bear, centre, concentrate, converge, direct, fix, join, meet, pinpoint, rivet, spotlight, zero in     (informal)   zoom in  

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    focus

         ( foci    plural  )   ( focuses    plural & 3rd person present)   ( focusing    present participle)   ( focused    past tense & past participle  )
    The spellings focusses, focussing, focussed are also used. The plural of the noun can be either foci or focuses.     

    1       verb   If you focuson a particular topic or if your attention is focusedon it, you concentrate on it and think about it, discuss it, or deal with it, rather than dealing with other topics.  
    (=concentrate)  
    He is currently focusing on assessment and development…      V on n  
    Many of the papers focus their attention on the controversy surrounding the Foreign Secretary.      V n on n  

    2       n-count   Thefocus of something is the main topic or main thing that it is concerned with.  
    usu sing, usu with supp  
    The new system is the focus of controversy…, Her children are the main focus of her life.     

    3       n-count   Your focus on something is the special attention that you pay it.  
    usu sing, usu with supp, oft N on n  
    IBM has also shifted its focus from mainframes to personal computers.     

    4       n-uncount   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…     

    5       verb   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…      V n  
    His eyes slowly began to focus on what looked like a small dark ball…      V on n  
    He found the binoculars and focused them on the boat…      V n on n  
    Had she kept the camera focused on the river bank she might have captured a vital scene.      V-ed, Also V  

    6       n-uncount   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…     

    7       verb   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.      V n prep  

    8       n-count   The focus of a number of rays or lines is the point at which they meet.     (TECHNICAL)  

    9    If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is in focus, the edges of what you see are clear and sharp.  
    ♦
    in focus      phrase   v-link PHR, PHR after v  
    Pictures should be in focus, with realistic colours and well composed groups.     

    10    If something is in focus, it is being discussed or its purpose and nature are clear.  
    ♦
    in focus      phrase   v-link PHR, PHR after v  
    This aggression is the real issue the world should be concerned about. We want to keep that in focus…     

    11    If an image or a camera, telescope, or other instrument is out of focus, the edges of what you see are unclear.  
    ♦
    out of focus      phrase   v-link PHR, PHR after v  
    In some of the pictures the subjects are out of focus while the background is sharp.     

    focus group        ( focus groups    plural  ) A focus group is a specially selected group of people who are intended to represent the general public. Focus groups have discussions in which their opinions are recorded as a form of market research.      n-count  

    soft focus     
    If something in a photograph or film is insoft focus, it has been made slightly unclear to give it a more romantic effect.      n-uncount  
    In the background, in soft focus, we see his smiling wife.     

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