focus
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focus |
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adductor, approach, asymptote, attractant, attrahent, axiom,
blurred, blurry, bottleneck,
bring into focus, center, center of attraction, center of consciousness, center of interest, clear, collision course, concenter, concentralization, concentralize, concentrate, concentration, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux, congress, converge, convergence, converging, core, crossing, cynosure, distinct, elixir, essence, essential,
fix, fixate, flower,
focal point, focalization, focalize, focus of
attention, fundamental, funnel, fuzzy, gist, gravamen, heart, hub, hypostasis, in focus, indistinct, inner essence, kernel, lodestar, lure, magnet, marrow, meat, meet, meeting, mutual approach, narrowing gap, nave, nerve, nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, out of focus, pinpoint, pith, point of convergence, polestar, postulate, prime focus, principle, put, quid, quiddity, quintessence, radius, rivet,
sap, soul, spirit, spokes, spotlight, stuff, substance, tangent, target, the nitty-gritty, unclear, woolly, zero in
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focus on |
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act on, act upon, address to, affect, allude to, attend closely to,
attend to business, be alert, be obsessed with, bring to attention, bring to notice, call attention to, cite, concentrate, concentrate on, concentrate the mind, concentrate upon, direct attention to, direct to, fix on, give heed, influence, look lively, look out, look sharp, mention, miss nothing, operate on, pay attention, pay heed, pick out, point at, point out, point to,
refer to, scrutinize, specify, study, take care, take heed, touch on, treat, watch out, work on
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out of focus |
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blear, bleared, bleary, blurred, blurry, confused, dark, dim, faint,
feeble, filmy, foggy, fuzzy, half-seen, half-visible,
hazy, ill-defined, inconspicuous,
indefinite, indistinct, indistinguishable, low-profile, merely glimpsed, misty, obscure, pale, semivisible, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undefined, unplain, unrecognizable, vague, weak
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Main entries similar to: focus
aim, apply, approach, asymptote, axiom, bend, bottleneck, center, concentrate, concentration,
concourse, concurrence, confluence, congress, converge, core, crossing, cynosure, definition, direct, elixir, essence, essential, fasten, fix, flower, fundamental, funnel,
gist, gravamen, heart, hub, hypostasis, intensify, intensity, kernel, level, limit, lodestar, lure, magnet,
marrow, meat, meet, meeting, nail, narrow, nerve center, nitty-gritty,
nub, nucleus, object, pith, point, polestar, postulate, principle,
put, quid, quiddity, quintessence, radius, refine, rivet, sap,
seat, sense, shed, slant, soul, spirit, spoke, stuff,
substance, tangent, text, thick
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