different between counterattractive vs counterattract

English

Etymology

counter- +? attractive

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

counterattractive (not comparable)

1. (rare) Acting as a counterattraction; counterattracting.
   • 1876–1939: David Harris, Britain and the Bulgarian Horrors of 1876, page 126 (2007 reprint; Kessinger Publishing, LLC; ?ISBN, 9781432501501)

     In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening.

   • 1966: William Robert Catton, From animistic to naturalistic sociology, page 285 (McGraw-Hill)

     He saw the relations among prices of land, corn, flour, and bread as dependent on “growth of the power of association” which makes “circulation” more rapid “as the attractive and counterattractive forces increase in their intensity.”

   • 1984: Ulrich Schneider, Die Londoner Music Hall und ihre Songs, 1850–1920, volume 24, page 75 (M. Niemeyer; ?ISBN, 9783484421240)

     Brian Harrison rechnet in Drink and the Victorians die MH zurecht zu den “counterattractive influences which fostered sobriety during the 19th Century”¹⁰⁰ und betont wie schon die MH-Manager, daß die MH keine rein männliche Domäne war wie das Pub, sondern Familienunterhaltung bot und damit eine wichtige Forderung der Temperenzler erfüllte.

   • 2002: Mark A. Noll (editor), God and Mammon: Protestants, money, and the market, 1790–1860, page 109 (Oxford University Press; ?ISBN, 9780195148015)

     As John Rule has observed, in this context Methodism must be considered a counterattractive, as well as a counteractive, force, for it provided its own alternative, “improving,” “respectable” recreations, which were assimilated into the calendars of local society.⁵⁵

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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.

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• counterattracting (adjective)

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• counterattraction
• counterattractive

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