distraction
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Etymology[edit]
See to distract.
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Noun[edit]
distraction (plural distractions)
- Something that distracts.
- Poking one's eye is a good distraction from a hurting toe.
- 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
- “… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”
- The process of being distracted.
- We have to reduce distraction in class if we want students to achieve good results.
- Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
- 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
- Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
- The incessant nightmares drove him to distraction.
Translations[edit]
something that distracts
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the process of being distracted
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References[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989
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distraction f (plural distractions)
