different between audition vs attention

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French audicion, from Latin aud?ti?, from audi? (“I hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???d???n/

Noun

audition (countable and uncountable, plural auditions)

1. (countable) A performance, by an aspiring performer, to demonstrate suitability or talent.

2. (uncountable) The sense of hearing.

3. An act of hearing; being heard.
4. (rare) Something heard.

Synonyms

• (performance by an aspiring performer): casting
• (performance by an aspiring performer): tryout

Translations

Verb

audition (third-person singular simple present auditions, present participle auditioning, simple past and past participle auditioned)

1. (transitive) To evaluate one or more performers in through an audition.
2. (intransitive) To take part in such a performance.

Derived terms

• auditioner
• auditionee

Translations

Related terms

• audience
• auditory

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aud?ti?, aud?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.di.sj??/

Noun

audition f (plural auditions)

1. audition (all senses)

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