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Attention   /ətˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Attention

noun
1.
The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others.  Synonym: attending.  Antonym: inattention.
2.
The work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something.  Synonyms: aid, care, tending.  "The old car needs constant attention"
3.
A general interest that leads people to want to know more.
4.
A courteous act indicating affection.
5.
The faculty or power of mental concentration.
6.
A motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review.



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"Attention" Quotes from Famous Books



... convinced, by a more deliberate attention to them, that they could not be uttered by the beast-fish, as I had afore conjectured, but only by beings capable of articulate speech; but then, what or where they were, it galled me ...
— Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) • Robert Paltock
... myself. I visited at the house of Monsieur D——, one of my friends, whose family had long held positions of honor in the government of Belgium. There I think all the town must have come to meet me; but I was not vain enough to appropriate to myself all the honor of this attention, for each one who came was anxious to learn even the most insignificant details concerning the great man near whom I was placed. On this account I was extraordinarily feted, and my twenty-four hours passed only too quickly. On my return, his Majesty deigned to ...
— The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Constant
... pat her hard little head with its exquisitely soft, dark tortoise-shell fur. No matter if she almost always turned and caught the caressing hand with teeth and claws, when she was tired of its touch, you would always be ready to pat her next time; there was such a fascination about her that any attention on her part gave a thrill of pride and pleasure. Every guest and stranger admired her and tried to win her favor: while we of the household hid our wounds and delighted ...
— Concerning Cats - My Own and Some Others • Helen M. Winslow
... of the 1957 Enforcement Conference on the Potomac to focus attention on the timetables for controlling pollution in the estuary in the light of water quality standards and also to consider problems of agricultural pollution, sediment, nutrients, dredging ...
— The Nation's River - The Department of the Interior Official Report on the Potomac • United States Department of the Interior
... farmers consider the lying of a beast upon the ground, for one night only, as a sufficient tilth for the year. The breath of graminivorous quadrupeds does certainly enrich the roots of grass; a circumstance worthy of the attention of the ...
— The Earth as Modified by Human Action • George P. Marsh


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