单词 | focalize |
释义 | focalizev. 1. transitive. To bring together (thoughts, information, etc.), esp. so as to form a clearly defined mental image or impression. Also: to concentrate (mental effort, the mind, etc.) on something. Also occasionally intransitive. Cf. focus v. II.In later use sometimes as a figurative use of sense 2 (see e.g. quot. 1860). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > state or quality of being convergent > converge with [verb (transitive)] > cause to converge convergea1774 concentricate1787 focalize1804 concentrate1831 1804 W. P. Russel Project 17 There will be an opportunity to concentrate, or (if I may be allowed to form a word) to focalize, to bring to one point, all information relative to school-affairs. 1852 Amer. Whig Rev. Aug. 144/1 There is throughout a converging interest powerfully focalizing and centralizing the mind. 1860 T. Martin in tr. Horace Odes Introd. 26 The mirror which focalizes for their old age the gathered wisdom of a lifetime. a1910 ‘M. Twain’ Autobiography (2010) I. 225 That is where my curiosity is focalized. 1963 N. A. Scott Reinhold Niebuhr 9 The blighting effect..of modern industrialism..began to focalize for him the crisis of the person in an advanced technocratic civilization. 1983 R. N. Boyd Prison Slang in Sex behind Bars (1984) 18 Convict slang tends to focalize on three main topics: crime, drugs, and sex. 1992 G. Adair Post-modernist always rings Twice 20 The kind of film buff purist for whom..it remains essential..that the screen engulf him and focalise all his mental and ocular faculties. 2014 Mass. Daily Collegian (Nexis) 8 Oct. 1 The Internet focalizes activism in all its forms, signal boosting causes to sympathetic ears all around the world. 2. transitive. To cause (rays of light, sound waves, etc.) to converge to a single point or place; = focus v. 2b. Cf. to bring to a focus at focus n. Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > heat > emit in rays [verb (transitive)] > focus focalize1827 the world > matter > physics > science of sound > sound-waves > emit, transmit [verb (transitive)] > focus focalize1827 focus1870 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > radiate or transmit light [verb (transitive)] > bring to a focal point condense1787 focalize1827 to bring to a focus1860 focus1870 1827 W. Hone Table Bk. I. 825/1 He [sc. Archimedes] focalized fire from heaven. 1845 T. De Quincey On Temperance Movement in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 664/2 Light is focalised in the eye; sound in the ear. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 29/2 The rays of heat may be collected and focalised. 1922 H. S. Williams Pract. Radio ii. 49 The telescope and microscope..focalize rays of light. 2004 Laser & Particle Beams 22 462/1 In order to focalize the laser beam on the target, we used a convergent lens..together with a set of neutral density filters to modify the pulse energy. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see or look [verb (reflexive)] > focus focalize1841 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look or behold > focus focalize1841 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at or behold > focus focus1776 focalize1841 1841 Sat. Mag. 30 Oct. 164/2 The Professor remarked that this appearance must have been observed by many persons, but that none had thought of referring it to its cause; which is exactly analogous to that of the vision of two inclined lines, when each is presented to a different eye focalized in the manner before described. 1876 Amer. Cycl. XV. 237/2 The most common of these troubles is want of power to focalize the eye upon near objects. 1886 W. F. Warren in Homiletic Rev. Jan. 54 Your eye, even if rightly directed, is focalizing itself upon the wrong object. 4. intransitive. Medicine. Of disease, inflammation, etc.: to form, become confined to, or arise in a focus (focus n. 4); to localize. Occasionally also transitive (in passive). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > characterize a disease [verb (intransitive)] > focalize settle1594 localize1845 focalize1863 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > characterize a disease [verb (transitive)] > focalize focalize1863 1863 Dental Cosmos 5 15 This virus [of syphilis]..is a powerful disorganizing force, and when focalized soon accomplishes its work of disorganization, and when fully generalized, its mission of death. 1906 Practitioner Nov. 589 The severer disturbances of the liver, those in which the intoxication..focalises in the liver. 1968 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 11 Jan. 108/2 This raises the important question why certain bacteria tend to focalize and produce infections in particular sites, when circulating in the bloodstream. 2008 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 335 323/1 When this pain became increasingly severe and ultimately focalized to his left knee, right wrist, and right ankle, he returned to Student Health 5 days after his initial visit. Derivatives ˈfocalizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > outstanding particular1485 emphatical1606 prominent1609 remarked1623 protuberant1730 emphatic1760 prosilient1828 outstanding1830 focalizing1838 large1883 standout1905 stickout1937 the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective] > on single point concentred1641 concentrated1652 concentrating1662 concentrative1725 concentrate1834 focalizing1838 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adjective] > looking at or beholding > focusing focalizing1838 focal1855 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > emission of light, radiation > [adjective] focal1682 aberrational1837 focalizing1838 1838 Belfast News Let. 6 Nov. The great difficulty of procuring such large pieces of flint glass has induced Sir David Brewster to propose that burning glasses should be built up of several pieces, each piece being so curved as to contribute to the general focalizing effect. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 115 Voltaire does not use these focalising words and turns of composition. 1878 tr. H. W. von Ziemssen et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. XVII. 668 The supposed amaurosis of many observers..is the result of the loss of the power of focalizing. 1883 J. Millington Are we to read Backwards? 71 Spectacles..restoring to the eye its former focalizing power. 1931 Amer. Lit. 2 397 With marvelous dexterity, with adroit applications of party cries and focalizings of party resources, this faction has succeeded beyond its wildest expectations. 2000 C. Bradford in R. McGillis Voices of Other vi. 91 In addition, boy adventurers constitute focalizing characters embodying a normative set of behaviors and ideologies against which is displayed the otherness of ‘wild blacks’. ˈfocalized adj. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > focalized local?a1425 focalized1838 localized1838 1838 Belfast News Let. 6 Nov. The whole of the rays will pass through the various lenses in directions at right angles to the diameters, and therefore in the most favourable direction for producing a powerful focalized effect. 1910 V. Horsley in Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 1833/2 By focalized epilepsy I mean all varieties of epilepsy in which the focus or starting point of the seizure can be localized to one lobe of the cerebrum. 1937 G. W. Allport Personality xi. 295 We are left with a concept of trait as a generalized and focalized neuropsychic system (peculiar to the individual). 1998 Radiotherapy & Oncol. 47 99 Focalized external irradiation cannot serve as a reasonable alternative to whole brain radiotherapy. 2005 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 192 1027/1 Demonstration of highly focalized intracellular reservoirs of S. aureus in various cell types of the endonasal mucosa..represents an important step toward a more complete understanding of persistent infection. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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