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attack
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /??tæk/, [??t?æk]
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
attack (plural attacks)
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- Synonyms: hit, spike
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- Antonyms: decay, release
- (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked)
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Translations
Further reading
- attack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- attack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- attack at OneLook Dictionary Search
Swedish
Etymology
From French attaque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?tak/
Noun
attack c
- attack; an attempt to cause damage
- attack; offense of a battle
Declension
Synonyms
- anfall
Related terms
- attackera
Derived terms
- hjärtattack
Anagrams
- tackat
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onfall
English
Etymology
From Middle English onfal, onfalle, equivalent to on- +? fall. Cognate with Dutch aanval (“an attack, assault”), German Anfall (“an attack, seizure, fit”), Swedish anfall (“an attack, offensive, assault”). Compare also Middle English onfallynge (“an onslaught, attack”).
Noun
onfall (plural onfalls)
- A falling on or upon; an attack, onset, or assault.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Are we to have military onfall; and death also by starvation?
- 1906, William Henry Fitchett, Wesley and his century: a study in spiritual forces:
- The onfall of the bishops had helped to wreck this possibility, [...]
- 2004, James Legge, The Shih King:
- Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.
- 2008, Arthur Conan Doyle, The White Company:
- Six great land battles I count, with four upon the sea, and seven-and-fifty onfalls, skirmishes and bushments.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- A fall of rain or snow.
- The fall of the evening.
Verb
onfall (third-person singular simple present onfalls, present participle onfalling, simple past onfell, past participle onfallen)
- (transitive) To fall on or upon.
- 1889, Harry Marshall Ward, Diseases of plants:
- [...] have been formed and ripened in large numbers, especially on the shaded ower sides of the leaves, the mycelium is practically exhausted, and as these processes are completed towards the end of the summer, the leaf so onfalls.
- 1992, Edgar C. Polomé, Werner Winter, Reconstructing languages and cultures:
- 'the temple caught fire from the onfallen lightning' [...]
- 2008, V. V. Adushkin, Ivan Nemchinov, Catastrophic events caused by cosmic objects:
- Quasivertical and quasihorizontal faults filled with crushed rocks can substantially change the amplitude of a seismic wave behind the fault in comparison with the amplitude of an onfalling wave [...]
- 1889, Harry Marshall Ward, Diseases of plants:
- (transitive) To assault, attack.
Anagrams
- Fallon, fall on, lolfan
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