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Attract
attract
(attracts, attracting, attracted) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it. The Cardiff Bay project is attracting many visitors... Warm weather has attracted the flat fish close to shore... VERB: V n, V n adv/prep 2. If someone or something attracts you, they have particular qualities which cause you to like or admire them. If a particular quality attracts you to a person or thing, it is the reason why you like them. He wasn’t sure he’d got it right, although the theory attracted him by its logic... More people would be attracted to cycling if conditions were right. VERB: V n, V n to n 3. If you are attracted to someone, you are interested in them sexually. In spite of her hostility, she was attracted to him... VERB: be V-ed to n • attracted He was nice looking, but I wasn’t deeply attracted to him... ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ to n 4. If something attracts support, publicity, or money, it receives support, publicity, or money. President Mwinyi said his country would also like to attract investment from private companies... VERB: V n 5. If one object attracts another object, it causes the second object to move towards it. Anything with strong gravity attracts other things to it. VERB: V n to n, also V n 6. to attract someone’s attention: see attention
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verb Etymology: Middle English, from Latin ~us, past participle of attrahere, from ad- + trahere to pull, draw Date: 15th century transitive verb to cause to approach or adhere: as a. to pull to or draw toward oneself or itself a magnet ~s iron b. to draw by appeal to natural or excited interest, emotion, or aesthetic sense ; entice ~ attention intransitive verb to exercise ~ion • ~or noun Synonyms: ~, allure, charm, captivate, fascinate, enchant mean to draw another by exerting a powerful influence. ~ applies to any degree or kind of ability to exert influence over another students ~ed by the school's locale. allure implies an enticing by what is fair, pleasing, or seductive an alluring smile. charm implies the power of casting a spell over the person or thing affected and so compelling a response charmed by their hospitality, but it may, like captivate suggest no more than evoking delight or admiration her performances captivated audiences. fascinate suggests a magical influence and tends to stress the ineffectiveness of attempts to resist a story that continues to fascinate children. enchant is perhaps the strongest of these terms in stressing the appeal of the agent and the degree of delight evoked in the subject hopelessly enchanted by her beauty. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. 1 (also absol.) draw or bring to oneself or itself (attracts many admirers; attracts attention). 2 be attractive to; fascinate. 3 (of a magnet, gravity, etc.) exert a pull on (an object). Derivatives attractable adj. attractor n. Etymology: L attrahere (as AD-, trahere tract- draw) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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гл. привлекать, притягивать - attract attention - attract capital - attract funds - attract the capital - notice attention ...Англо-русский Русско-английский экономический словарь
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1. притягивать magnet attracts steel —- магнит притягивает сталь salt attracts moisture —- соль впитывает влагу 2. прельщать, пленять, привлекать to attract attention —- привлекать внимание this scheme does not attract me —- этот план не прельщает меня to attract admirers —- пленять поклонников he attracted a large number of followers —- он увлек за собой многочисленных последователей ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to make someone interested in something, or make them want to take part in something (attract sb to sth) (What attracted me most to the job was the chance to travel. | attract interest/attention etc) (The story has attracted a lot of interest in the media.) 2 be attracted to to feel that you like someone and want to have a sexual relationship with them (I'm not usually attracted to blond men.) 3 to make someone like or admire something or feel romantically interested in someone (I guess it was his eyes that attracted me first.) 4 to make someone or something move towards another thing (Leftover food attracts flies. | low rents designed to attract new businesses to the area) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 14c., from L. attractus pp. of attrahere "to draw," from ad- "to" + trahere "draw." Began as a medical term for treatment to "draw out" diseased matter. Attractive in the sense of "pleasing, alluring" is from 1602. Attraction "interesting or amusing exhibition" is from 1862. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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