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attention

English

Etymology

From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (to attend, give heed to); see attend.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??t?n.??n/

Noun

attention (countable and uncountable, plural attentions)

  1. (uncountable) Mental focus.
  2. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
    • 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, ch. 3,
      She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
    • 1910, Stephen Leacock, "How to Avoid Getting Married," in Literary Lapses,
      For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
  3. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
  4. (uncountable, computing) A technique in neural networks that mimics cognitive attention, enhancing the important parts of the input data while giving less priority to the rest.

Synonyms

  • (mental focus): heed, notice; see also Thesaurus:attention

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Interjection

attention

  1. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
  2. A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.

Translations

Further reading

  • attention in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • attention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • Antonetti, tentation

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.t??.sj??/

Noun

attention f (uncountable)

  1. attention, (mental focus)
  2. vigilance
  3. attention (concern for or interest in)
  4. consideration, thoughtfulness

Derived terms

  • faire attention
  • prêter attention

Related terms

  • attendre
  • attentif

Interjection

attention !

  1. look out! watch out! careful!

Further reading

  • “attention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • tentation

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dashy

English

Etymology

dash +? -y

Adjective

dashy (comparative dashier, superlative dashiest)

  1. (colloquial, dated) Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.

Related terms

  • dashing

Anagrams

  • Shady, shady

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