Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ATTENTION

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Definitions of ATTENTION

1. A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.
2. (uncountable) Mental focus.
3. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
4. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.
5. (uncountable, ML) A technique in neural networks that mimics cognitive attention, enhancing the important parts of the input data while giving less priority to the rest.
6. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.

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Examples of Using ATTENTION in a Sentence

• A beacon is an intentionally conspicuous device designed to attract attention to a specific location.
• He received international attention after writing, directing, and starring in the independent drama film Sling Blade (1996), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
• Typically, these manic episodes can last at least 7 days for most of each day to the extent that the individual may need medical attention, while the depressive episodes last at least 2 weeks.
• This book's claim that many environmental issues are overstated was criticized by the scientific community and brought Lomborg popular media attention.
• Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language, perception, memory, attention, reasoning, and emotion; to understand these faculties, cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics, psychology, artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology.
• Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group due to the attention given to them by mass media.
• Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.
• The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies he had been commissioned to write for the Christmas 1920 edition of The Strand Magazine.
• Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight.
• Her work received renewed attention following the feminist scholarship of the 1970s and 1980s, and greater recognition of women writers in English.
• He had the good fortune to attract the attention of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, and subsequently became one of Luther's most active helpers in the Protestant Reformation.
• Eschewing metaphysics, Arrian focuses his attention on Epictetus's work applying philosophy to daily life.
• There he received a liberal education at the Lyceum and Karl Joseph Hieronymus Windischmann drew his attention to the languages and literature of the East.
• He was instrumental in bringing the modern pagan religion of Wicca to public attention, writing some of its definitive religious texts and founding the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca.
• He was entered at Lincoln's Inn on 15 October 1857, but gave his attention chiefly to drama, producing Diamonds and Hearts at the Haymarket Theatre in 1867; this was followed by other light comedies.
• Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
• Services (also known as "intangible goods") include attention, advice, access, experience and affective labour.
• His early promise in mathematics brought him to the attention of Johann Georg Büsch, who allowed Bode to use his own library for study.
• attempts to support their position with an argument that politics ought not to be criticized on social media because the message is not directly being heard by the head of state; this would make them guilty of ignoratio elenchi, as people such as B may be criticizing politics because they have a strong message for their peers, or because they wish to bring attention to political matters, rather than ever intending that their views would be directly read by the president.
• Popular interest and belief in the creature has varied since it was brought to worldwide attention in 1933.

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