attraction
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English[編集]
Etymology[編集]
From Middle English attraccioun, from Old French attraction, from Latin attractio from past participle of attrahō (= ad + trahō), equivalent to attract + -ion.
Pronunciation[編集]
- (US, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈtɹækʃən/, [əˈtɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n], [əˈt͡ʃɹækʃ(ɪ̈)n]
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ækʃən
Noun[編集]
attraction (countable and uncountable, plural attractions)
- The tendency to attract.
- The Moon is held in its orbit by the attraction of the Earth's gravity.
- The feeling of being attracted.
- I felt a strange attraction towards the place.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
- (countable) An event, location, or business that has a tendency to draw interest from visitors, and in many cases, local residents.
- The new mall should be a major attraction.
- Star Tours is a very cool Disney World attraction.
- (chess) The sacrifice of pieces in order to expose the enemy king.
- (linguistics) An error in language production that incorrectly extends a feature from one word in a sentence to another, e.g. when a verb agrees with a noun other than its subject.
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Translations[編集]
tendency to attract
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feeling of being attracted
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something which attracts
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chess: sacrifice to expose the enemy king
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See also[編集]
Further reading[編集]
- Attraction (grammar) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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French[編集]
Etymology[編集]
From Old French attraction, from Latin attractiōnem.
Pronunciation[編集]
Audio (file)
Noun[編集]
attraction f (plural attractions)
- attraction (all senses)
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Descendants[編集]
- → Hungarian: attrakció
Further reading[編集]
- “attraction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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