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focalize en · VERB

Etymology

From focal + -ize.

Meanings

  1. To focus, or to adjust a focus.
  2. To sharpen an image by focusing.
  3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
  4. To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).
    • The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him. 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 211:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
focalizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
focalizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
focalized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
focalized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

focalizer · unfocalized · focalization

Translations (8)

bg фокусирам (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · nl focaliseren (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · fr focaliser (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · es focalizar (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · ca focalitzar (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · ru фокуси́ровать (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · pt focalizar (to focus, or to adjust a focus) · it focalizzare (to focus, or to adjust a focus)