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Definition: Focussed |
FocussedAdjective1. Being in focus or brought into focus. 2. (of light rays) converging on a point; "focused light rays can set something afire". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "focussed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Synonym: FocussedSynonym: focused (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unfocused (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Focussed |
| English words defined with "focussed": Eurocentric, Europocentric ♦ focus ♦ radiation pyrometer. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "focussed": energy dispersive spectroscopy. (references) |
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| "Focussed by the sun" by Uschi Hering Commentary: "Leaf." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The UK market for automotive security products is relatively focussed with individual companies concentrating on their respective spheres of expertise. (references) | |
The GOP has launched a number of programs focussed on health education, maternal & child health including family planning, immunization, prevention and control of epidemic diseases and treatment of common diseases and injuries. (references) | ||
While many segments of the industry have traditionally been focussed largely on the domestic market, exports are becoming an increasingly important source of growth opportunities, especially for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). (references) | ||
Economic History | Russia | Indeed, the Russian government now actively opposes FEZs, and has, instead, focussed on creating what it terms a "common economic space" across the Russian Federation. (references) |
Romania | The Romanian Government has expressed a strong desire to join NATO and has seriously focussed on the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) to prepare itself for membership. (references) | |
Morocco | After several attempts focussed along the offshore shelf areas, operators are looking to the deepwater slope and basin of the continental margin for the discovery of major reserves. (references) | |
Political Economy | CHILE | Other regulations tend to be focussed in labor, environment, and health standards. (references) |
Sweden | The referendum on European Union Membership was approved on November 13, 1994, and Sweden became a member of the EU on January 1, 1995. Sweden took over the rotating Presidency of the EU from January through July 2001. During its tenure it focussed on the issues of EU Enlargement to include countries of Central and Eastern Europe, improving the environment in the EU, and boosting employment in the Union. (references) | |
Trade | India | The long term focussed deliberations on free trade will bolster free enterprise and greater partnerships between India and the United States. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Focussed" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 65.38% of the time. "Focussed" is used about 156 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 65.38% | 102 | 32,309 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 28.85% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.49% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.28% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 156 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "focussed": focused vs unfocused focussed. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "focussed": ill-focussed, language-focussed, market-focussed, narrowly-focussed, policy-focussed, sentence-focussed, victim-focussed, well-focussed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
dialogue focussed | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "focussed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 聚焦 (focused, focusing, focussing, highlight). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מרוכז (central, centralized, centred, concentrated). (various references) | |
Korean | 초점을 맞추는 (focused). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ocussedfay.(various references) | |
Spanish | rejilla focalizada (focused grid, focussed grid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "focussed": defocussed, misfocussed, overfocussed, prefocussed, refocussed, unfocussed. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "focussed" (pronounced fō"kust) |
| 6 | f ō" k u s t | focused, refocused, unfocused. |
| 5 | -ō" k u s t | locust. |
| 4 | -k u s t | anarchist, blackest, bleakest, darkest, masochist, quickest, sickest, sleekest, slickest, thickest, weakest. |
| 3 | -u s t | agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, absolutist, accompanist, ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, activist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-o-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: defocus, escudos, focused, focuses, fucoses. | |
-2 letters: cussed, douses, escudo, fucose, fussed, scouse, soused. | |
-3 letters: codes, coeds, coses, coude, cusso, decos, doses, douce, douse, duces, feods, feuds, focus, fosse, fused, fuses, scudo, scuds, souse. | |
-4 letters: cess, code, cods, coed, coss, cuds, cued, cues, cuss, deco, docs, does, dose, doss, duce, dues, duos, ecus, feds, feod. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-f-o-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: defocuses. | |
+2 letters: defocussed, defocusses, misfocused, refocussed, unfocussed. | |
+3 letters: crossruffed, defocussing, misfocussed, prefocussed, unconfessed. | |
+4 letters: confusedness, overfocussed. | |
+5 letters: discomfitures. | |
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