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focus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin focus (“hearth, fireplace”); see there for more.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?f??.k?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?fo?.k?s/
- Rhymes: -??k?s
Noun
focus (countable and uncountable, plural foci or focuses or focusses)
- (countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
- (countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
- (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
- (uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
- (uncountable) Concentration of attention.
- (countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
- (graphical user interface) The indicator of the currently active element in a user interface.
- (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
- An object used in casting a magic spell.
- 2004, Marian Singer, Trish MacGregor, The Only Wiccan Spell Book You'll Ever Need
- Candles, in fact, are an essential ingredient in many spells. They can be used as either the focus of the spell or as a component that sets the spell's overall mood and tone.
- 2014, Kristen S. Walker, Witch Gate (page 180)
- I ran through what I knew about spells from Mom and other witchcraft sources, but nothing matched what I was used to seeing in her magic work. Usually she used herbs and other plants as a focus for the spell.
- 2004, Marian Singer, Trish MacGregor, The Only Wiccan Spell Book You'll Ever Need
Derived terms
- focus hunting
Translations
Verb
focus (third-person singular simple present focuses or focusses, present participle focusing or focussing, simple past and past participle focused or focussed)
- (intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate during a task.
- (transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.
- (transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
- (transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.
- You'll need to focus the microscope carefully in order to capture the full detail of this surface.
- (intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
- If you're going to beat your competitors, you need to focus.
- (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.
- The text box won't receive the user's keystrokes unless you explicitly focus it.
Usage notes
The spellings focusses, focussing, focussed are more common in Commonwealth English than in American English, but in both varieties they are less common than the spellings focuses, focusing, focused.
Derived terms
- focus group
- in focus
- out of focus
- soft focus
Related terms
- focal
Translations
Anagrams
- Fusco
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin focus. Compare the inherited doublet foc.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?f?.kus/
Noun
focus m (plural focus)
- focus
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin focus. The figurative sense probably derives from English focus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fo?.k?s/
- Hyphenation: fo?cus
Noun
focus m (plural focussen)
- (optics, physics) focus
- Synonym: brandpunt
- (figuratively) focus, centre
- (linguistics) focus
Derived terms
- focaal
- focusafstand
- focussen
Related terms
- foyer
Descendants
- Afrikaans: fokus
References
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin focus, whence also Italian fuoco (an inherited doublet).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?.kus/
- Hyphenation: fò?cus
Noun
focus m (invariable)
- focus (all senses)
Latin
Etymology
- The origin is uncertain. Usually connected with Old Armenian ??? (boc?).
- Some connect this along with faci?s, fac?tus, fax to Proto-Indo-European *b?eh?- (“to shine”). In that case, cognate at the root level with Sanskrit ???? (bh??ti), Ancient Greek ????? (phaín?, “to shine”), etc.
- In explaining how Kepler discovered the elliptical orbits, Nicholas Mee provides this explanation:
"One of the interesting properties of an ellipse is that if there were a light bulb at one focus, then all the light that it emits would reflect off the ellipse and converge at the other focus. This is why Kepler originally used the name focus for these points." (Gravity, 2014, p. 74)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?fo.kus/, [?f?k?s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?fo.kus/, [?f??kus]
Noun
focus m (genitive foc?); second declension
- fireplace, hearth
- firepan, coal pan, brazier
- (figuratively) house, family
- (Vulgar Latin) fire
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Related terms
- focillare
- foculare
Synonyms
- (fire): ignis
Descendants
References
- focus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- focus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- focus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- focus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- focus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- focus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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recce
English
Alternative forms
- recco, reccy
Etymology
Abbreviation of reconnaissance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.ki/
- Hyphenation: rec?ce
- Rhymes: -?ki
Noun
recce (plural recces)
- (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Reconnaissance.
- 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
- Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser.
- 2006, Steve Farndon, Escape Inc.
- I'm afraid you two will have to go on a bit of a recce sometime soon.
- 1953, J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross, The Weeping and the Laughter: A Chapter of Autobiography
Adjective
recce (not comparable)
- (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Relating to reconnaissance.
- 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
- There appears a captured photograph showing cruiser or battleship recovery of an old Jap float recce plane.
- 1946, United States. Congress. American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack
Verb
recce (third-person singular simple present recces, present participle recceing, simple past and past participle recced or recce'd or recceed)
- (Britain, Canada, New Zealand, military slang) Reconnoitre.
- 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel
- I told the boys to stock up with all they could, and went back to the village to recce for someone to pay as per orders.
- 1961, John Sibly, You'll Walk to Mandalay: A Novel
Synonyms
- (mainly US) recon
Anagrams
- eccer
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