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单词 into focus
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into focus
a. Optics and Photography. With reference to an optical image or photograph of something: sharply defined, clear. With reference to an optical instrument or camera: adjusted so as to produce a sharply defined image. Also similarly into focus.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb] > clearly visible > sharply or distinctly
brightlyOE
clearlyc1300
fairc1390
vively1537
bremely1577
in focus1785
sharply1817
trenchantly1873
eidetically1929
1785 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 63 Double [star]... Hardly visible, and like a star not in focus.
1831 Trans. Soc. Arts 48 415 By bringing first one surface, then the other into focus, the thickness of the lens is ascertained.
1890 W. E. Woodbury Encycl. Photogr. 295 After a certain distance all objects will be in focus.
1914 R. A. Freeman Uttermost Farthing ii. 75 I applied my eye to the instrument and brought the objective into focus.
1950 J. S. Redding Stranger & Alone xxx. 306 Every part of the picture was there and in focus, timeless, changeless.
1992 L. Tuttle Lost Futures 310 She gazed uncomprehending for a few moments before her eyes brought it into focus.
2007 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. June 10 For..the other images in the portfolio, he used a tilt-shift lens, which puts only a small part of the frame into focus.
2016 Mint (Nexis) 6 Feb. We want to have photos with just the food really in focus.
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b. figurative. Clearly defined or understood; (also) as an object of attention or concentration; as a subject of discussion or debate; under scrutiny. Also similarly into focus.
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1834 11th Rep. Commissioners Inq. Excise Establishm. App. xix. 219 in Parl. Papers 1835 XXX. 169 No theoretic plan will be searching enough..to take in all the varieties of account, all the diverse ramifications which will have to be brought into focus at the Treasury.
1891 Sunday at Home 9 May 442/1 So world-embracing, for the geography of the time, were the military campaigns of the greater Pharaohs..that the study of their pictorial walls at Thebes is really a story of the old world in focus.
1906 G. Santayana Life of Reason V. vii. 189 In dialectic,..we strive to clarify and develop the essence of what we find, bringing into focus the inner harmonies and implications of forms.
1975 H. S. Thompson Let. 12 Aug. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 646 One of the things that is definitely not in focus for me right now is what I plan to do about ‘covering’ the '76 campaign.
1991 Canada Lutheran Nov. 5/3 It is my confidence that as long as we keep Jesus clearly in focus, he will guide us.
2003 Book May 67/2 (advt.) This Master of the Universe struggles to keep the big picture in focus.
2009 New Yorker 23 Feb. 54/3 It threw into focus the terrible divide that occurred between the world of my mother's first husband and the world of the second.
extracted from focusn.
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