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📖 Определения и значения для слова attention

📒 the act of listening to, looking at or thinking about something/somebody carefully; interest that people show in somebody/something

  • the report’s attention to detail
  • He turned his attention back to the road again.
  • His attention turned to other matters.

📒 special care, action or treatment

  • He received urgent medical attention.
  • The roof needs attention (= needs to be repaired).
  • for the attention of… (= written on the envelope of an official letter to say who should deal with it)

📒 things that somebody does to try to please you or to show their interest in you

  • She tried to escape the unwanted attentions of her former boyfriend.
  • Her primary aim was to avoid the attentions of the newspapers.

📒 the position soldiers take when they stand very straight with their feet together and their arms at their sides

  • to stand at/to attention
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