Meaning

4 senses

  1. (uncountable)Mental focus.

    Please direct your attention to the following words.

    Aufmerksamkeit, Beachtung, Wachsamkeit

    внима́ниеvnimánije, внима́тельностьvnimátelʹnostʹ

    ува́гаuváha

    the faculty or power of mental concentration

  2. (countable)An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.

    Aufmerksamkeit

    внима́ниеvnimánije, уха́живанияuxáživanija

  3. (uncountable)A state of alertness in the standing position.

    The company will now come to attention.

    Achtung, Habachtstellung, Habtachtstellung

    сто́йка «сми́рно»

  4. (uncountable)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.

Examples

2010 sentences

  1. You must pay attention to him.

    Ти повинен звертати на нього увагу. — uaspeaker

    ruТы должен обращать на него внимание. — Hellerick

    deDu musst ihm Aufmerksamkeit schenken. — Vortarulo

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  2. They pay little attention to him.

    Вони приділяють йому мало уваги. — deniko

    ruОни обращают на него мало внимания. — soweli_Elepanto

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  3. No one pays attention to Tom.

    Ніхто не звертає уваги на Тома. — deniko

    ruНикто не обращает внимание на Тома. — afyodor

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  4. Tom doesn't pay attention in class.

    Том неуважний у класі. — deniko

    ruТом невнимателен в классе. — marafon

    deTom passt im Unterricht nicht auf. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. Nobody pays much attention to Tom.

    Ніхто не звертає особливої уваги на Тома. — deniko

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
mental focus:
Русский
By meaning 3
mental focus:
romantic interest:
state of alertness in the standing position:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
mental focus:
state of alertness in the standing position:

Origin

From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere,

From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend. Equivalent to attend + -tion.

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Forms

plural: attentions
Singularattention
Pluralattentions

regular

Synonyms

18 synonyms
noticeA2considerationB1markA2mindA1noteA1observationB1reflectionB1regardB2heedadvertenceadvertencyheedfulnessobservance
Close in meaning
  • the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others:attending
  • the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something:careaidtending

Antonyms

4 antonyms
apathyinattentionneglectB2oversight

Word family

26 related words
RelatedattentiveB2notableC1ponderB2pay attentionattend
Derivedattentionalattention economyattention getterattention-grabbingattentionlessattention lineattention seekerattention-seekingattention spanattract attentioncross-attentiondisattentiondraw attentionhyperattentionmeta-attentionnonattentionoverattentionpreattentionself-attentionunattentionunderattention

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

12 patterns
  • pay attention
  • pay attention to
  • pay more attention
  • wasn't paying attention
  • pay any attention
  • attention to what
  • attention in class
  • more attention
  • any attention to
  • pay much attention
  • paid no attention
  • to pay attention

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
attendanceB2attendantattendeeattentiveB2attentivelyB2attentivenessattest
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