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Focussing

noun

1.

The concentration of attention or energy on something. Synonyms: centering, direction, focal point, focus, focusing. "He had no direction in his life"

Focus

verb

(past & past part. focused or focussed; pres. part. focusing or focussing)

1.

Direct one's attention on something. Synonyms: center, centre, concentrate, pore, rivet.

2.

Cause to converge on or toward a central point.

3.

Bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions. Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focalize.

4.

Become focussed or come into focus. Synonyms: focalise, focalize.

5.

Put (an image) into focus. Synonyms: focalise, focalize, sharpen.

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... will always be outbalanced by the hope and conviction that we will not be the one who draws the black ball. And together with this psychological fact goes the other stubborn feature of the mind, which no sermon can remove, that the focussing of the attention on the sexual problems, even in their repelling form, starts too often a reaction of glands and with it sexual thoughts which ultimately lead to ...

— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg

... of their own well-being, might accuse themselves of folly and the nobles of insolent idleness, for the poor spent their lives in hopeless labour that others who did nothing might enjoy all. But there was a secret circulation of substance in the body politic, and the focussing of all benefits in the few was the cause of nutrition and prosperity to the many. Perhaps the truth might be even better expressed in a physiological figure somewhat more modern, by saying that the brain, which ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... early in 1258, Manfred was crowned king at Palermo. Before the end of the year, Alexander cancelled the grant of Sicily to Edmund. Yet his demands for the discharge of Henry's obligations had contributed not a little towards focussing the gathering discontent.[1] ...

— The History of England - From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) • T.F. Tout

... literature on the Irish problem has been increasing during the past few years, and there is room for a book which aims at focussing attention upon some aspects of it which the mere politician is apt to pass lightly over or to ignore altogether. Like most of Mr Kettle's work, the book bears the impress of his individuality, and, to many of his readers, ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

... triumphant in his success. He unconsciously drew up his slim, muscular figure as he turned to the bride, focussing his gaze upon the blossom in the waves of jet locks that tumbled smoothly about ...

— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson

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