Fo‑cus

Definition

focus /'fǝƱkǝs / n ( pl focuses or foci / 'fǝƱsaÇ / ) ❍ PLURAL ၁။ [U,C usu sing ] ~ (for / on sth ) ဗဟို၊ အခ်က္အခ်ာ။ အာ႐ံုစိုက္ရာ။ provide a focus for political protest ❍ an intellectual focus ❍ a change shift of focus ❍ Her beauty makes her the focus of attention. ❍ In tonight's programme our focus is on Germany. ❍ The primary school acts as a focus for village life. ၂။ [C] ဆံုခ်က္။ ၃။ [U, C] (ျပတ္သားေသာ၊ ဝါးေသာ) ဆံုခ်က္။ The children's faces are badly out of focus (ie not clearly defined) in the photograph. ❍ Don't take the picture until you've got us all in focus. ❍ ( fig ) Let's try to bring the problem into focus (ie define it clearly). ၄။ [C] ဆံုခ်က္ အခ်ိန္အဆ။ The focus on my camera is faulty. v ( -s- or -ss- ) ၁။ ~ (sth) (on sb/sth ) အာ႐ံုစိုက္သည္။ အာ႐ံု ေရာက္သည္။ စူးစိုက္သည္။ focus one's anger ❍ The proposals need to be better focused. ❍ I'm so tired I can't focus (on anything) today. ❍ Researchers have focused on the short-term effects. ❍ Suspicion focused on the company chairman. ❍ The conference focused attention on the risk of fire. ❍ Please focus your minds on the following problem. ၂။ (က) စူးစိုက္ၾကည့္သည္။ အာ႐ံုေရာက္သည္။ His eyes focused slowly in the dark room. ေမွာင္မည္းေနေသာ အခန္းတြင္ တျဖည္းျဖည္းမွ သူ႕မ်က္စိ က်င့္သားရလာသည္။ (ခ) ~ sth (on sth ) (မွန္ေျပာင္း၊ ကင္မရာ စသည္) ဆံုခ်က္ ခ်ိန္သည္။ Focus your camera (on those trees). (ဂ) ~ sth (on sth) ဆံုခ်က္ခ်ိန္သည္။ If you focus the sun's rays through a magnifying glass on a dry leaf, it will start to burn. ❏ focused adj အာ႐ံုစူးစိုက္ေသာ။ (အျမင္၊ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ စသည္) ျပတ္သားေသာ။ highly focused ambitions ❍ a more focused approach / outlook / interest.

Examples

1. I know you’re tired
2. but try to focus.
3. [focus on/upon] : We will focus upon three main topics.
4. [focus attention on something] : Attention has been focused recently on the dangers of nuclear reactors.
5. [focus your mind on something] : He found himself struggling to focus his mind on the discussion.
6. [focus solely/entirely/particularly/exclusively on something] : Schools should not focus exclusively on exam results.
7. [focus efforts/energy on something] : Efforts are now focused on cleaning up the beaches.
8. She leaned on a rock
9. focusing her binoculars.
10. [focus on] : The television cameras were focused on the crowd.
11. It took a while for my eyes to focus in the dim light of the cave.
12. [focus your eyes/gaze on someone/something] : Polly focused her gaze on Nathan.