English Online Dictionary. What means attention? What does attention mean?
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): /əˈtɛn.ʃən/
Noun
attention (countable and uncountable, plural attentions)
- (uncountable) Mental focus.
- Synonyms: heed, notice; see also Thesaurus:attention
- (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
- (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
- (uncountable, machine learning) 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.
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Interjection
attention
- (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
- 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.
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Further reading
- “attention”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “attention”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- Antonetti, tentation
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin attentiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.tɑ̃.sjɔ̃/
Noun
attention f (uncountable)
- attention (mental focus)
- vigilance
- Synonym: vigilance
- attention (concern for)
- attention (interest in)
- Synonyms: curiosité, intérêt
- consideration, thoughtfulness
Derived terms
- attentionnel
- faire attention
- prêter attention
Related terms
- attendre
- attentif
Interjection
attention !
- look out! watch out! careful!
Further reading
- “attention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- tentation