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Focalize

verb
(past & past part. focalized; pres. part. focalizing)
1.
Concentrate on a particular place or spot.  Synonyms: focalise, localise, localize.
2.
Bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions.  Synonyms: concenter, concentre, focalise, focus.
3.
Become focussed or come into focus.  Synonyms: focalise, focus.
4.
Put (an image) into focus.  Synonyms: focalise, focus, sharpen.






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"Focalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... are plenty of men who have ability enough, the rays of their faculties taken separately are all right; but they are powerless to collect them, to concentrate them upon a single object. They lack the burning glass of a purpose, to focalize upon one spot the separate rays of their ability. Versatile men, universal geniuses, are usually weak, because they have no power to concentrate the rays of their ability, to focalize them upon one point, until they burn a hole in whatever ...
— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden



Words linked to "Focalize" :   blur, line up, focalization, align, adjust, concentre, refocus, lie, set, aline, conform, adapt, correct



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