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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishattencioun, borrowed fromLatinattentio, attentionis, fromattendere, past participleattentus(“to attend, give heed to”); seeattend. Equivalent toattend +‎-tion.

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Noun

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attention (countable anduncountable,pluralattentions)

  1. (uncountable)Mentalfocus.
    Synonyms:heed,notice;see alsoThesaurus:attention
    Please direct yourattention to the following words.
    • 1881,John Younger, “Introductory Chapter”, inAutobiography of John Younger, Shoemaker, St. Boswells‎[1],Kelso, Scotland: J. & J.H. Rutherfurd, pages x–xi:
      Most of the pictures of common life that we meet with in books are drawn in the shape of novels, with the view of attracting theattention of indolent readers; the question with authors being, not of what can I inform my neighbour by which he may be improved in head or heart, mind or morals? but what is the fashion of public taste? that by pandering to it I may secure sale and applause! Hence the present jumble of brains, the rack of invention to excite, supply, and cram the public appetite, all so agape after tales of the marvellous, till the picture of life is overwrought, and the image of nature bedaubed to disgust.
    • 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter I, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
      In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck myattention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
    • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:
      One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once securedattention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis[…] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
    • 1959,Mari Sandoz, “Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman”, inHostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings‎[2]:
      Lesper Killey was at her shoulder, jerking at the wash-faded denim of her jumper to get herattention.
    • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, inAmerican Scientist‎[3], volume100, number 2, page87:
      But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shiftattention away from the realities of their life at sea.
  2. (countable) Anaction orremark expressingconcern for orinterest in someone or something, especiallyromantic interest.
  3. (uncountable, military) A state ofalertness in thestanding position.
    The company will now come toattention.
  4. (uncountable, machine learning) A kind ofprioritisationtechnique inneural networks that assignssoftweights betweentokens from two (or more)inputsequences in order to compute the requiredoutput.
    • 2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu,Mastering Transformers […] , Packt Publishing Ltd,→ISBN,page26:
      Theattention mechanism is an important part of these models and plays a very crucial role. Before Transformer models, theattention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.

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Collocations

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adjectives with "attention"
  • slightattention
  • strictattention
  • carefulattention
  • extraattention
  • littleattention
  • excessiveattention
  • specialattention
  • immediateattention
  • closeattention
  • explicitattention
  • fullattention
  • partialattention
  • medicalattention
  • urgentattention
  • publicattention
  • sustainedattention
  • utmostattention
  • explicitattention
verbs with "attention"
  • needattention
  • payattention
  • showattention
  • appreciate someone'sattention
  • requireattention
  • raiseattention

Translations

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mental focus
romantic interest
state of alertness in the standing position
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Interjection

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attention

  1. (military)Used as a command to bring soldiers to theattention 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

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military command
call for people to pay special heed

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromLatinattentiōnem.

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attention f (uncountable)

  1. attention(mental focus)
  2. vigilance
    Synonym:vigilance
  3. attention(concern for)
  4. attention(interest in)
    Synonyms:curiosité,intérêt
  5. consideration,thoughtfulness

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Interjection

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attention!

  1. look out!watch out!careful!

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