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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Center upon
Example:
Our day revolved around our work
Synonyms:
center; center on; concentrate on; focus on; revolve about; revolve around
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "focus on" is one way to...):
bear on; come to; concern; have to do with; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on (be relevant to)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Context examples:
Methods that focus on the retention of a woman's reproductive capability.
(Fertility preservation, NCI Thesaurus)
NPs focus on disease prevention, wellness, and patient education.
(Nurse practitioner, NCI Thesaurus)
Subdiscipline of pathology with a focus on vision and the eye.
(Ocular Pathology, NCI Thesaurus)
Traditional methods for evaluating treatment outcome focus on disease state.
(Patient-Focused Outcomes, NCI Thesaurus)
The sciences that focus on the properties and behavior of nonliving matter.
(Physical Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)
A subdiscipline of immunology with a focus on the nervous system and its interactions with the immune system.
(Neuroimmunology, NCI Thesaurus)
Nutritional studies with a focus on the specific nutritional needs of children under the age of 2.
(Infant Nutrition, NCI Thesaurus)
An Informatics Nurse encompasses the full range of activities that focus on the methods and technologies of information handling in nursing.
(Informatics Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
A subdiscipline of genetics with a focus on nerve cells and the nervous system.
(Neurogenetics, NCI Thesaurus)
This stimulation brought the subjects’ attention back to the unneeded item and interfered with their performance on the recognition test for the item they were asked to focus on.
(Recalling temporary memories, NIH)
