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From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend.
attention (countable and uncountable, plural attentions)
- (uncountable) Mental focus.
- Synonyms: heed, notice; see also Thesaurus:attention
Please direct your attention to the following words.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The 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 my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The 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 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.
1959, Mari Sandoz, “Bone Joe and the Smokin' Woman”, in Hostiles and Friendlies: Selected Short Writings[1]:
Lesper Killey was at her shoulder, jerking at the wash-faded denim of her jumper to get her attention.
2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist[2], volume 100, number 2, page 87:
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.
- (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter 3, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
- (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
The company will now come to attention.
- (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.
2021, Savas Yildirim, Meysam Asgari-Chenaghlu, Mastering Transformers […] , Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 26:
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.
- at attention
- attentional
- attention deficit disorder
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- 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
- disattention
- draw attention
- hyperattention
- meta-attention
- nonattention
- overattention
- pay attention
- preattention
- self-attention
- stand at attention
- stand to attention
- unattention
- underattention
adjectives with "attention"
- slight attention
- strict attention
- careful attention
- extra attention
- little attention
- excessive attention
- special attention
- immediate attention
- close attention
- explicit attention
- full attention
- partial attention
- medical attention
- urgent attention
- public attention
- sustained attention
- utmost attention
- explicit attention
verbs with "attention"
- need attention
- pay attention
- show attention
- appreciate someone's attention
- require attention
- raise attention
mental focus
- Albanian: re (sq) m, reja (sq) f, vëmendje (sq)
- Arabic: اِهْتِمَام m (ihtimām), اِنْتِبَاه (ar) m (intibāh)
- Azerbaijani: diqqət (az)
- Bashkir: иғтибар
- Belarusian: ува́га f (uváha), ўва́га f (ŭváha)
- Bulgarian: внима́ние (bg) n (vnimánie)
- Chinese:
- Czech: pozornost (cs) f
- Danish: opmærksomhed (da) c, bevågenhed c
- Dutch: aandacht (nl) f
- Esperanto: atento
- Estonian: tähelepanu
- Farefare: guusgo
- Finnish: huomio (fi), tarkkaavaisuus (fi)
- French: attention (fr)
- Galician: atención (gl) f
- Georgian: ყურადღება (q̇uradɣeba), გულისყური (gulisq̇uri)
- German: Aufmerksamkeit (de) f, Beachtung (de), Wachsamkeit (de) f
- Greek: προσοχή (el) f (prosochí)
- Haitian Creole: atansyon
- Hebrew: תְּשׂוּמַת לֵב (he) f (tsumát lev), קשב (he) m (késhev)
- Hindi: ध्यान (hi) m (dhyān)
- Hungarian: figyelem (hu), odafigyelés (hu)
- Irish: aoidh f
- Italian: attenzione (it)
- Japanese: 注意 (ja) (ちゅうい, chūi), 注目 (ja) (ちゅうもく, chūmoku)
- Kazakh: зейін (zeiın)
- Korean: 주의(注意) (ko) (juui), 주목 (jumok)
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: ыкылас (ky) (ıkılas), ынта (ky) (ınta), назар (ky) (nazar), көңүл (ky) (köŋül), көңүл буруу (ky) (köŋül buruu), дит (ky) (dit), ыклас (ky) (ıklas), кунт (ky) (kunt), урмат (ky) (urmat), дыкат (ky) (dıkat), көңүл бургула (köŋül burgula)!
- Latin: attentiō f
- Latvian: uzmanība f
- Lithuanian: dėmesys m
- Macedonian: внима́ние n (vnimánie), внима́телност f (vnimátelnost)
- Malayalam: ശ്രദ്ധ (ml) (śraddha)
- Maltese: attenzjoni
- Mongolian: анхаарал (mn) (anxaaral)
- Norwegian:
- Persian: توجه (fa) (tavajjoh)
- Plautdietsch: Acht (nds) f, Achtunk f
- Polish: uwaga (pl) f
- Portuguese: atenção (pt) f
- Romanian: atenție (ro) f
- Russian: внима́ние (ru) n (vnimánije), внима́тельность (ru) f (vnimátelʹnostʹ)
- Sardinian:
- Campidanese: attentzione, isméru
- Gallurese: isméru, appéntu, afficcu
- Logudorese: coidadu, attentzione, isméru, appéntu
- Sassarese: attintzione, appéntu
- Scottish Gaelic: aire f, suim f, èisteachd f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: pozornosť f
- Slovene: pozornost (sl) f
- Spanish: atención (es) f
- Swedish: uppmärksamhet (sv) c
- Tagalog: lingil
- Tamil: கவனம் (ta) (kavaṉam), நாட்டம் (ta) (nāṭṭam)
- Tatar: игътибар (tt) (iğtibar)
- Turkish: dikkat (tr), tetik (tr), özen (tr)
- Ukrainian: ува́га (uk) f (uváha)
- Urdu: دھیان m (dhyān)
- Vietnamese: chú ý (vi) (注意)
- Welsh: ystyriaeth (cy) f
- West Frisian: oandacht c, attinsje c
romantic interest
- Bulgarian: уха́жване n (uhážvane)
- Chinese:
- Danish: opmærksomhed (da) c
- Dutch: attenties (nl) pl
- Finnish: huomionosoitus
- French: attention (fr) f, attentions (fr) f pl
- Galician: atención (gl) f
- German: Aufmerksamkeit (de) f
- Greek: φροντίδα (el) f (frontída), περιποίηση (el) f (peripoíisi)
- Hungarian: figyelmesség (hu)
- Macedonian: додвору́вање n (dodvorúvanje)
- Ottoman Turkish: دقت (dikkat), بال (bâl)
- Polish: atencja (pl) f, względy
- Portuguese: atenção (pt) f
- Romanian: atenție (ro) f
- Russian: внима́ние (ru) n (vnimánije), уха́живания (ru) n pl (uxáživanija)
- Slovene: pozornost (sl) f
- Spanish: atención (es) f
state of alertness in the standing position
- Bulgarian: внима́ние (bg) n (vnimánie)
- Catalan: atenció (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: pozor (cs) m
- Dutch: paraatheid (nl) f
- Finnish: asento (fi)
- French: attention (fr) f, garde à vous (fr) m
- German: Achtung (de) f, Habachtstellung f, Habtachtstellung f
- Greek: προσοχή (el) f (prosochí)
- Hebrew: הקשב (hakshév)
- Hungarian: vigyázzállás (hu), (in the phrase "vigyázzban áll") vigyázz (hu)
- Italian: allerta (it), sull'attenti, attenti (it)
- Japanese: 気を付け (ja) (ki o tsuke)
- Low German:
- Dutch Low Saxon: achtenis (Gronings)
- Macedonian: внима́ние n (vnimánie)
- Maori: matika, whakamatika
- Norwegian:
- Persian: خبردار (fa) (xabardâr)
- Polish: baczność (pl) f
- Portuguese: sentido (pt) m
- Romanian: drepți pl (poziție de drepți)
- Russian: сто́йка «сми́рно» f (stójka «smírno»)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: позо́рно̄ст f
- Roman: pozórnōst (sh) f
- Slovene: pozor m
- Swedish: uppmärksamhet (sv) c, givakt (sv)
- Thai: แถวตรง (tɛ̌ɛo-dtrong)
Translations to be checked
- Icelandic: (please verify) athygli (is) f
- Indonesian: (please verify) perhatian (id), (please verify) sorotan (id)
- Korean: (please verify) 주의 (ko) (juui), (please verify) 주목 (jumok)
- Lithuanian: (1) (please verify) dėmesys m
- Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) paznja f
- Slovak: (1) (please verify) pozornosť f, (2) (please verify) pozor m
- Telugu: (please verify) శ్రద్ధ (te) (śraddha)
- Turkish: (1) (please verify) dikkat (tr) n
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.
military command
- Chinese:
- Czech: pozor (cs)
- Danish: giv agt
- Dutch: geef acht
- Finnish: asento (fi), sento (informal), tseno (informal)
- French: garde à vous (fr)
- German: Achtung (de)
- Hebrew: הקשב (hakshév)
- Hungarian: vigyázz (hu)
- Indonesian: siap (id)
- Italian: attenti (it)
- Japanese: 気を付け (ja) (ki o tsuke)
- Korean: 주의 (ko) (juui)
- Macedonian: внима́ние n (vnimánie)
- Malay: sedia (ms)
- Polish: baczność (pl)
- Russian: сми́рно (ru) (smírno)
- Spanish: atención (es)
- Swedish: giv akt, givakt (sv)
- Tagalog: humanda (tl), manda (tl)
- Thai: แถวตรง (th) (tɛ̌ɛo-dtrong)
- Zazaki: diqet
- “attention”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “attention”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Borrowed from Latin attentiōnem.
attention f (uncountable)
- attention (mental focus)
- vigilance
- Synonym: vigilance
- attention (concern for)
- attention (interest in)
- consideration, thoughtfulness
attention !
- “attention”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.