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Out Of Focus

Definition: Out Of Focus

Out Of Focus

Adjective

1. (of an image) not in or brought into focus; "at their edges things were pretty much out of focus".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Out Of Focus

Synonyms: unfocused (adj), unfocussed (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: focused (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Out Of Focus

Specialty definitions using "out of focus": Purkinje figure, Purkinje image. (references)

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Modern Usage: Out Of Focus

DomainUsage

Screenplays

My hocus-pocus is out of focus. (Dungeons & Dragons; writing credit: Katherine Lawrence)

Clever

You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Movie/TV Titles

In & Out of Focus (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Out Of Focus

Photos:
Out Of Focus

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Photo Album: Out Of Focus

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Prickly Pear in focus with Canyon Background out of focus. Credit: Beth Perault.

A cliff face out of focus in the background, with a tree in focus in the foreground. Credit: Christine Tincher.

1901 glider soaring, photograph from an out of focus, water-damaged negative. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: Out Of Focus

Language Translations for "out of focus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i paqartë (abstract, dark, dim, doubtful, dubious, dusky, evasive, inarticulate, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, muddy, nebulous, obscure, recondite, shadowy, uncertain, unclear, undistinguishable, undistinguished, unknowable, unreadable, vague). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onscherp (blurred, fuzzy, non-sharp). (various references)

   

French

  

nuageux, imprécis, flou. (various references)

   

German

  

unscharf (blank, blurred, dim, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, murky, unclear, unprimed, unsharp). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem éles (kép) (to be out of focus). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sfocato (blurred, fuzzy, hazy, vague). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

的外れ (miss the mark, off the point), "ロ燐酸 (from the best to the worst, off the point, pin, pyrophosphoric acid). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"ンぼけ (off the point), まとはずれ (miss the mark, off the point). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

outay ofay ocusfay

   

Swedish

  

oskarp (indistinct). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

odak ayarı bozuk, flu (blurred), bulanık (blurred, blurry, clouded, cloudy, cloudyly, dim, filmy, foggy, hazy, indistinct, mackled, misty, muddy, murky, troubled, turbid), ayarsız (off-key, out of whack). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

не у фокусі. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Out Of Focus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-f-f-o-o-o-s-t-u-u"

-3 letters: cutoffs, offcuts.

-4 letters: cutoff, fucous, offcut.

-5 letters: coffs, coofs, coots, cuffs, focus, foots, fucus, scoff, scoot, scout, scuff, stuff, toffs, tofus, tuffs.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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