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Seeing vs Focussing - What's the difference?

seeing | focussing |

As verbs the difference between seeing and focussing

is that seeing is while focussing is .

As adjectives the difference between seeing and focussing

is that seeing is having vision; not blind while focussing is used for or pertaining to focussing.

As nouns the difference between seeing and focussing

is that seeing is the action of the verb to see ; eyesight while focussing is the action of the verb to focus .

As a conjunction seeing

is (slang) inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.

seeing

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
    • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
    Derived terms
    * all-seeing * seeing to * seeing-eye dog

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having vision; not blind.
    • Synonyms
    * sighted

    Noun

  • The action of the verb to see ; eyesight.
  • * 2004 , Timothy D. J. Chappell, Reading Plato's Theaetetus (page 73)
    • To such perceivings we give names like these: seeings , hearings, smellings, chillings and burnings, pleasures and pains, desires
  • (astronomy) The movement or distortion of a telescopic image as a result of turbulence in the Earth's atmosphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Probably an elision of "seeing that" or "seeing as".

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (slang) Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that.
    • Seeing the boss wasn't around, we took it easy.

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    focussing

    English

    Alternative forms

    * focusing

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Used for or pertaining to focussing.
    • The bacteriologist adjusted the focussing knob on the microscope.

    Noun

    (-)
  • The action of the verb to focus .

    • Verb

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