18 Verbs to Use for the Word focusing

[The indulgent Father complies, and, is at some pains to adjust the focus.]

V. bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.

For the first time he caught a focus on his father, with his pompous pride and his stilted diction; on his mother's social creed.

" It caused a new focusing of attention upon him, and this time Arizona seemed to regret that he stood in the limelight.

Charleston was in fact so complete a focus of commerce, politics and society that South Carolina was in a sense a city-state.

Close by to our left is the round temple of Vesta, where the sacred fire of the State is kept ever burning by its guardians, the Vestal Virgins, and here too is their dwelling, the Atrium Vestae, and also that of the Pontifex Maximus (Regia), in whose potestas they were; these three buildings, then insignificant to look at, constituted the religious focus of the oldest Rome.

The physical exertion so far displaced my spectacles as to derange for a moment the focus of vision.

First, if possible, find the equivalent focus of your lens.

Changes which creep in unnoticed when one sees a person every day are startlingly apparent when absence has forced a clearer focus.

Dating their foundation as far back as the fourteenth century, as Prague, Vienna, and Heidelberg,or established but of late years in the nineteenth, as Berlin, Bonn, and Munich,they attract to themselves the mental strength of the land, forming a focus from which radiates, whether in Theology, Science, Literature, or Art, the new world of thought, which finds its way to remotest regions, often filtered and unacknowledged.

After deathin the interval between one life and the nextthe specific memories of the personality fade out as in sleep, or rather, become latent, leaving the soul, the permanent life-center, clear and colorless, a mysterious focus of spiritual forces and affinities (the seeds of karma) ready for another sowing in the world of men.

But, as he went on to write about the FBI, the local lawyer, and the lawyer's wife, he began to lose focus.

He next spoke of the question of optical center of lenses, and said that that was not, as had been hitherto generally supposed, the true place from which to measure the focus of a lens or combination.

From the first law of Kepler, that every planet moves in an ellipse with the sun in one of its foci, he drew the still more general inference that the force by which the planet moves round that focus varies inversely as the square of its distance from the focus.

A cross-section of the stream at any moment may show the contents of the mind arranged in a particular pattern, but at the very next moment they may be arranged in a different pattern, another object occupying the focus, while the previous tenant is pushed to the margin.

He pressed his face quite close to the window, thinking that he must be mistaken in seeing such unconnected letters as T-i-b-i, but gradually they looked clearer to him and he read distinctly "Tibi splendet focus.

You must view it in every light, till he has found the bestplacing it at this distance, and at that, but always suiting the focus of your sight to his own.

While arranging the focus of the instrument, an object first met his eye that caused his heart almost to leap into his mouth.

18 Verbs to Use for the Word  focusing