focalize en · VERB
Etymology
From focal + -ize.
Meanings
- To focus, or to adjust a focus.
- To sharpen an image by focusing.
- To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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)