Focus vs. Commitment — What's the Difference?

The centre of interest or activity

The state or quality of being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.

The state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition

An engagement or obligation that restricts freedom of action

One of the fixed points from which the distances to any point of a given curve, such as an ellipse or parabola, are connected by a linear relation.

The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.

An element of a sentence that is given prominence by intonational or other means.

Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.

Adapt to the prevailing level of light and become able to see clearly

A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.

Pay particular attention to

A pledge or obligation, as to follow a certain course of action

Place the focus on (an element of a sentence).

Something pledged, especially an engagement by contract involving financial obligation.

The distinctness or clarity of an image rendered by an optical system.

The state of being emotionally or intellectually devoted, as to a belief, a course of action, or another person

The state of maximum distinctness or clarity of such an image

The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:

An apparatus used to adjust the focal length of an optical system in order to make an image distinct or clear

The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.

A point at which rays of light or other radiation converge or from which they appear to diverge, as after refraction or reflection in an optical system

Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.

See focal length.

Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:

A center of interest or activity

Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date.

Close or narrow attention; concentration

Being bound emotionally or intellectually to a course of action or to another person or persons.

A condition in which something can be clearly apprehended or perceived

The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.

(Medicine) The region of a localized bodily infection or disease.

Perpetration as in a crime or mistake.

(Geology) The point of origin of an earthquake.

State of being pledged or engaged.

(Mathematics) A fixed point whose relationship with a directrix determines a conic section.

The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or in jail.

To cause (light rays, for example) to converge on or toward a central point; concentrate.

The act of committing, or putting in charge, keeping, or trust; consignment; esp., the act of committing to prison.

To render (an object or image) in clear outline or sharp detail by adjustment of one's vision or an optical device; bring into focus.

A warrant or order for the imprisonment of a person; - more frequently termed a mittimus.

To adjust (a lens, for example) to produce a clear image.

The act of referring or intrusting to a committee for consideration and report; as, the commitment of a petition or a bill.

To direct toward a particular point or purpose

A doing, or perpetration, in a bad sense, as of a crime or blunder; commission.

To converge on or toward a central point of focus; be focused.

The act of pledging or engaging; the act of exposing, endangering, or compromising; also, the state of being pledged or engaged.

To adjust one's vision or an optical device so as to render a clear, distinct image.

The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose;

To concentrate attention or energy

The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action;

A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.

An engagement by contract involving financial obligation;

A point of a conic at which rays reflected from a curve or surface converge.

A message that makes a pledge

The fact of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

The official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

The quality of the convergence of light on the photographic medium.

(uncountable) Concentration of attention.

The exact point of where an earthquake occurs, in three dimensions (underneath the epicentre).

(GUI) The status of being the currently active element in a user interface, often indicated by a visual highlight.

(linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information.

An object used in casting a magic spell.

To concentrate during a task.

(transitive) To direct attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or task.

(transitive) To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point.

(transitive) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.

(intransitive) To concentrate one’s attention.

To transfer the input focus to (a visual element), so that it receives subsequent input.

To aggregate figures of accounts.

A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refracted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

A point so related to a conic section and certain straight line called the directrix that the ratio of the distance between any point of the curve and the focus to the distance of the same point from the directrix is constant.

A central point; a point of concentration.

To bring to a focus; to focalize; as, to focus a camera.

The concentration of attention or energy on something;

Maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system;

Maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea;

A central point or locus of an infection in an organism;

Special emphasis attached to something;

A point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges

A fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section

Direct one's attention on something;

Cause to converge on or toward a central point;

Bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions

Become focussed or come into focus;

Put (an image) into focus;