different between counterattract vs counterattraction

English

Etymology

counter- +? attract

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt????t?akt/

Verb

counterattract (third-person singular simple present counterattracts, present participle counterattracting, simple past and past participle counterattracted)

1. (rare) To attract at the expense of someone or something else.
   • 1948: Glasgow Medical Journal, volume 147, page 111

     The provision of nurses for them is a major problem in itself, relieved to a large extent in county districts by part-time workers, but remaining only partially solved by such methods in the cities, where more congenial occupations counterattract them.

   • ante 1979–2002: American Institute of Physics, Current Physics Index, volume 27^?: part 1^?, page 6,393 ⁽¹⁹⁷⁹⁾ or 4,917 ⁽²⁰⁰²⁾

     Flexible polymers also counterattract.

   • 1986: Robert Donald Swisher, Surfactant biodegradation, page 162 (Marcel Dekker; ?ISBN, 9780824769383)

     If the cell has amongst its armament such a latent potential matching the novel compound we are presenting, and if that compound can counterattract the repressor away from the DNA, synthesis of the enzyme can then proceed, the newly formed enzyme starts degrading the compound, and acclimation by enzyme induction is accomplished.

Derived terms

• counterattracting (adjective)

Related terms

• counterattraction
• counterattractive

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English

Etymology

counter- +? attraction

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt????t?ak??n/

Noun

counterattraction (plural counterattractions)

1. Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.
   • 1956, January 31^st: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
   • 1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, ? 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, ?ISBN

     The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief?—?call it what you will?—?than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

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