All 11 Uses of

focus
in
Hunger Games Book #2 (Catching Fire)

Adrenaline courses through me, wiping all the concerns of the day from my mind as I focus on the immediate threat before me.
Chpt 11

I'm having trouble focusing, and liquor keeps sloshing out of my bottle and down the back of Gale's jacket, but he doesn't seem to care.
Chpt 13

focusing = concentrating on the matter at hand

It's taking all of Haymitch's resources to focus his eyes on the bottles, so I speak up.
Chpt 13

focus = adjust (to see clearly)

Where are you?! I demand an answer from myself and slowly the world comes into focus.
Chpt 19 *

focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)

His eyes open, focus on us, and register awareness that he's being helped.
Chpt 21

focus = look

I try to make out what he's saying, but I can't focus, so I just stare at his face, doing my best to hang on to my sanity.
Chpt 24 *

focus = concentrate

My vision blurs in and out of focus as I strain to make the two moons floating up in the sky into one.
Chpt 26

out of focus = in a state where something cannot be seen clearly

I push myself to a sitting position and hold on to the padded table until the room settles into focus.
Chpt 27

focus = view (a state where something can be seen clearly)

Definitions:

(1) (focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.)
verb: to concentrate, look at, or pay attention to

noun: the act of concentration, or the ability to concentrate

(to concentrate is to direct attention or effort towards a single thing)
(2) (focus as in: The focus of our study is...)
where attention is concentrated or directed
(3) (focus as in: bring into focus; or out of focus)
a state where something has come into view or can be seen clearly; or an adjustment made to permit a clear view
(4) (focus as with technical usage)
technical usage typically involves some sense of center or concentration such as:
- physics — a point where things come together such as the point where light rays meet
- geometry — a fixed reference point (as of a parabola)
- geology — the point of origin of an earthquake
See a comprehensive dictionary for other less common meanings.