attention
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tend-der.
Proto-Italic *tendō
Latin tendō
Latin attendō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin attentiōbor.
Middle English attencioun
English attention
From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion.
Base: attend
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: attentions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mental focus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Please direct your attention to the following words.
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 the attention 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.
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 my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
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 secured attention 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.
Lesper Killey was at her shoulder, jerking at the wash-faded denim of her jumper to get her attention.
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 shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
gloss: An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
gloss: A state of alertness in the standing position.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The company will now come to attention.
gloss: A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The attention mechanism is an important part of these models and plays a very crucial role. Before Transformer models, the attention mechanism was proposed as a helper for improving conventional DL models such as RNNs.
gloss: Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
pos: intj
gloss: 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.
pos: intj
Synonyms: advertence
advertency
attention
consideration
heed
heedfulness
mark
mind
note
notice
observance
observation
reflection
regard
Antonyms: apathy
inattention
neglect
oversight
Related words: attentive
heads up!
notable
pay attention
ponder
Derived words: at attention
attentional
attention deficit disorder
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
attention economy
attention getter
attention-grabbing
attentionless
attention line
attention-seeker
attention seeker
attention-seeking
attention span
attention whore
attract attention
care and attention
center of attention
centre of attention
cross-attention
disattention
draw attention
hyperattention
meta-attention
nonattention
overattention
pay attention
preattention
self-attention
snap to attention
stand at attention
stand to attention
thank you for your attention to this matter
unattention
underattention
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