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— English words —

• focus n. (Countable, optics) A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
• focus n. (Countable, geometry) A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.
• focus n. (Uncountable, photography, cinematography) The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
• focus n. (Uncountable, photography, cinematography) The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.
• focus n. (Uncountable) Concentration of attention.
• focus n. (Countable, seismology) The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).
• focus n. (Graphical user interface) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often…
• focus n. (Linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.
• focus n. An object used in casting a magic spell.
• focus v. (Intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate during a task.
• focus v. (Transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.
• focus v. (Transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.
• focus v. (Transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.
• focus v. (Intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.
• focus v. (Computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To transfer the input focus to (a visual element)…
• focus v. (Accounting, formerly) To aggregate figures of accounts.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Catalan - Romanian
  • focus n. Focus.

— English words, defined in French —

• focus n. (Mathématiques, Physique) Foyer.
• focus n. (Sens figuré) Foyer, siège.
• focus n. (Sens figuré) Point de mire, objectif (d’une personne, d’une politique), cohérence (d’un film, d’un jeu).
• focus n. (Informatique) Fait, pour une fenêtre ou un widget, d’être destinataire des actions de l’utilisateur.
• focus n. (Grammaire) Focus.
• focus v. Mettre au point (une caméra, un instrument).
• focus v. Faire converger, diriger (un faisceau, un rayon).
• focus v. (Sens figuré) Concentrer (l’attention), mettre l’accent sur, miser sur.
• focus v. (Intransitif) (Photographie) Faire la mise au point.
• focus v. (Intransitif) Se focaliser, se concentrer.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• focus s. Foco.
• focus s. Centro.
• focus s. Concentración·.
• focus v. Enfocar.
• focus v. Centrar.
• focus v. Contentrar, concentrarse.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• focus s. (Óptica⚠) foco.
• focus s. (Interface gráfica⚠) foco.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• focus s. Focolaio.

— In Dutch —

• focus n. Brandpunt, punt waarop de meeste aandacht is gericht.
• focus n. (Natuurkunde) een punt of verzameling van punten waar alle…
• focus n. (Medisch) ontstekingshaard.
• focus w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van focussen.
• focus w. Gebiedende wijs van focussen.
• focus w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van focussen.

— In French —

• focus adj. (Accompagnement) Concentré.
• focus n.m. (Grammaire) Nouvelle information la plus importante dans…
• focus n.m. (Photographie) Foyer.

108 English words from 17 English definitions

Accounting accounts active adjust aggregate attention audience being casting cause cinematography Computing concentrate Concentration conic converge convergence Countable currently curve dimensions direct during earthquake effort element energy epicentre etc exact fact figures focal focal␣plane focus followed followed␣by formerly from geometry graphical image imparts important information in␣order in␣order␣to input instrument interface Intransitive lens light Linguistics magic medium most object occurs of␣a often one on␣the optical optics order particular passage photographic photography phrase plane point position quality rays rays␣of␣light reflected refracted respect seismology sentence single spell status surface task that the the␣one The␣quality three to␣the transfer transitive Uncountable underneath upon used user user␣interface visual where which with with␣respect with␣respect␣to word

29 English words from 28 foreign definitions

accent actions attention converger dans des een Faire Fait film focaliser Focus Foyer information instrument Interface mire mise miser Physique plus point politique pour punt rayon Sens van widget

68 foreign words from 28 foreign definitions

aandacht Accompagnement alle au␣point Bij Brandpunt caméra Centrar Centro cohérence Concentración concentrarse Concentré concentrer destinataire diriger Eerste Eerste␣persoon Enfocar enkelvoud être faisceau fenêtre figuré foco Focolaio focussen Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs gericht gráfica Grammaire importante Informatique Interface␣gráfica Intransitif inversie jeu Mathématiques Medisch meeste mettre Mettre␣au␣point mise␣au␣point Natuurkunde Nouvelle objectif Óptica personne persoon Photographie Point␣de␣mire punten se␣concentrer Se␣focaliser Sens␣figuré siège sur tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd tweede tweede␣persoon une utilisateur verzameling waar waarop wijs

32 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

focused focuser focuses focusers focusing focussed focusser focusses focusable focusings focusless focussers focussing focus-group focus␣group focussable focusedness focus-groups focus␣groups focus␣puller focusability focus-grouped focus␣pullers focus-grouping focusing␣cloth focuslessness focusing␣cloths focusing␣screen focussing␣cloth focusing␣screens focussing␣cloths focused␣deterrence

92 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

defocused defocuses refocused refocuser refocuses unfocused unfocuses defocusing defocussed defocusses misfocused misfocuses prefocused prefocuses refocusers refocusing refocussed refocusses tri-focused unfocusing unfocussed unfocusses autofocused autofocuses cryofocused cryofocuses defocussing isofocusing misfocusing misfocussed overfocused overfocuses prefocusing prefocussed prefocusses refocusable refocusings refocussing self-focused self-focuses unfocusable unfocussing autofocusing autofocussed autofocusses cryofocusing hydrofocuses hyperfocused hyperfocuses laser-focused +42 words

26 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

bifocus cofocus defocus in␣focus refocus unfocus apofocus misfocus prefocus autofocus cryofocus nanofocus overfocus perifocus pull-focus self-focus soft␣focus hydrofocus hyperfocus laser␣focus microfocus out␣of␣focus retrofocus underfocus immunofocus virtual␣focus

3 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

cus CUs FOC

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

COF suco UCO

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

Fusco

7 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

cub␣fos fuckos fucose Fulcos Fuocos Fuscos fustoc

15 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

CFOs CFUs COFs cous FOCs FOUC OFCs suco SUFC UCOs UCSF ufos UFOs USCF USOC

10 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

cocus docus ficus Fochs fogus fucus hocus locus POCUS wocus

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

FOCs

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