All 6 Uses

focus
in
Never Let Me Go
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Word got round fast enough, but the talk mostly focused on Miss Lucy herself rather than on what she'd been trying to tell us.†
p. 82.4 *
We'd be focusing on sex, and then the other stuff would creep in.†
p. 84.4
Usually you had to be pretty patient too: if, say, you were focusing from a window on one particular bit of the playing field, you could wait ages for those couple of seconds when there wasn't anyone at all in your frame.†
p. 90.7
When I think about my essay today, what I do is go over it in some detail: I may think of a completely new approach I could have taken, or about different writers and books I could have focused on.†
p. 116.1
In fact, I hardly saw the contorted bodies, because I was focusing on the faces.†
p. 134.9
Her voice was dreamy and her gaze had slightly lost focus.†
p. 270.5

Definitions:

(1) (focus as in: Turn your focus to question #2.)
to direct attention or effort toward a single thing; or the ability to do so without getting distracted
(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.
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)