transcription, транскрипция: [ ətrækt ]
( 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
• at‧tract‧ed
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