attention

CEFRA2

/əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    The act of watching, listening, or thinking carefully about something.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A state of alertness in the standing position.

Examples

  • It was the main focus of attention at the meeting.

  • You must pay attention to his advice.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

  2. Mental focus.

  3. 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.

More examples

In context

  • You should pay more attention to what he says.

  • Please direct your attention to the following words.

  • The company will now come to attention.

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Antonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The teacher demanded the studentsblank during the entire lecture.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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.