Phrase Hound found 17 phrases and 31 compound words that contain focus. The most common are listed below. Open focus in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 17
- focus groupA group of people, sampled from a larger population, interviewed in open session for market research or political analysis.
- focus groupsplural of focus group: A group of people, sampled from a larger population, interviewed in open session for market research or political analysis.
- out of focusNot in focus; lacking visual sharpness; blurred or hazy.
- Ford Focus
- self-focusto focus itself, or by itself
- soft focusThe blur produced by spherical aberration in a lens, sometimes deliberately used to produce a dreamy effect or to eliminate blemishes.
- deep focusThe technique of using a large depth of field, so that the foreground, middle ground and background are all in focus.
- virtual focusA point from which light or other radiation apparently emanates, such as in the virtual image produced by a plane mirror.
- laser focusA very intense focus (of the human mind); a hyperfocus.
- pull-focusA filming technique whereby the focal point is drawn towards the viewer; also a shot (as part of an edit) in which such a technique is used. Also used attributively.
- focus pullerA member of a film crew whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera lens' optical focus on whatever subject or action is being filmed.
- long-focus lensA type of camera lens that has a focal length longer than the diagonal measure of the film or sensor receiving the image.
- focus pocusTo focus with intense concentration or effort.
- focus-groupedsimple past and past participle of focus-group
- focus-groupingpresent participle and gerund of focus-group
- focus pullersplural of focus puller: A member of a film crew whose primary responsibility is to maintain the camera lens' optical focus on whatever subject or action is being filmed.
- long-focus lensesplural of long-focus lens: A type of camera lens that has a focal length longer than the diagonal measure of the film or sensor receiving the image.
Compound words 31
- focuserA device which allows one to adjust the focus of an instrument such as a telescope.
- microfocusThe ability to focus on a microscopic target
- focusableCapable of being focused.
- hyperfocusAn intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses the consciousness on a narrow subject.
- overfocusTo focus excessively (on a particular subject to the exclusion of others)
- cofocusAn element in a clause, sentence, etc. that acts as the focus, or main element, in combination with another such element.
- immunofocusTo engineer antigens in order to produce antibodies with desired characteristics
- unfocusTo bring out of focus.
- nanofocusnanoscale focus
- underfocusThe state of a microscope that is focused slightly in front of the specimen