focused meaning

Definition of focused in English Dictionary

• Verb
  1. simple past tense and past participle of focus.
• AdjectiveCOMmore focusedSUPmost focused+-
  1. Directing all one's efforts towards achieving a particular goal.
  2. Dealing with some narrowly defined aspects of a broader phenomenon.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • Up to now, Purdue has focused on two scientific papers published in 2005 that Dr. Taleyarkhan hailed as independent confirmation of his sonofusion results.
     • At the other extreme, last year's Mordecai Richler: Leaving St. Urbain by Reinhold Kramer focused (rather overearnestly) on Richler's writing itself.
     • Fabrication of a multistrip magnetic/nonmagnetic structure in a thin sandwiched Ni layer [Si(5 nm)/Ni(10 nm)/Si] by a focused ion beam (FIB) irradiation has been attempted.
  2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
     • The young man had married a woman who had only one hand, and it was on the fact of her one-handedness that my thought was focused.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Adjectives
  2. Verbs
     • Verb forms
       • Participles
         • Past participles
       • Verb simple past forms

Other Vocabulary

1. en focuses
2. en hocused
3. en focuser
4. en focussed
5. en foncused