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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : uh-trak-shuhn |
Phonetic Transcription : əˈtræk ʃən |
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Définition of attraction
Origin :- late 14c., from French attraction, from Latin attractionem (nominative attractio) "a drawing together," noun of action from past participle stem of attrahere (see attract). Originally a medical word, "absorption by the body;" meaning "action of drawing to" is from 1540s (again medical); extended to magnetic, then figuratively to personal (c.1600) qualities. Meaning "a thing which draws a crowd, interesting or amusing exhibition" is from 1829, a sense that developed in English and soon transferred to the French equivalent of the word.
- noun ability to draw attention; something that draws attention
- You will be the only attraction at this performance, and I have only you to count on for the receipts.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- A ton on some other planet, where the attraction of gravity is less, does not weigh half a ton.
- Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond
- The weight of a load depends upon the attraction of the earth.
- Extract from : « Pax Vobiscum » by Henry Drummond
- The place has no attraction for me without you, and it was yours first.
- Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
- The earth-house had no longer any attraction for Steenie: the bonny man was not there; he was risen!
- Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
- Sometimes he had found himself wondering at the phenomenon of her attraction for him.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- The gravity-plates for repulsion were those in the helmet; for attraction, those in the boot-soles.
- Extract from : « The Bluff of the Hawk » by Anthony Gilmore
- I was not insensible to all his powers of attraction; I thought him one of the most amiable of men.
- Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson
- Water had no attraction for him, save as a pleasant means of taking exercise.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
- They contain a large quantity of honey, and so prove an attraction to bees.
- Extract from : « Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880 » by Various
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