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Noun
/əˈtrakSHən/,
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attractions, plural;
  1. The action or power of evoking interest, pleasure, or liking for someone or something
    • - she has romantic ideas about sexual attraction
    • - the timeless attraction of a good tune
  2. A quality or feature of something or someone that evokes interest, liking, or desire
    • - this reform has many attractions for those on the left
    • - the main attraction of Peking duck is the crackling texture of its skin
  3. A thing or place that draws visitors by providing something of interest or pleasure
    • - the church is the town's main tourist attraction
  4. A force under the influence of which objects tend to move toward each other
    • - gravitational attraction
  5. The influence exerted by one word on another that causes it to change to an incorrect form, e.g., the wages of sin is (for are) death


  1. the force by which one object attracts another
  2. an entertainment that is offered to the public
  3. the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"
  4. a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts; "flowers are an attractor for bees"
  5. drawing card: an entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had"
  6. (attract) direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes; "Her good looks attract the stares of many men"; "The ad pulled in many potential customers"; "This pianist pulls huge crowds"; "The store owner was happy that the ad drew in many new customers"
  7. This sentence, on the other hand, shows attraction: Because the antecedent, "[of] the man", is possessive, the relative pronoun has become possessive too. Attraction is a theoretical process in standard English, but is common in the Greek of the Septuagint and also occurs in the New Testament.
  8. (Attractions) Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for more than twenty-four (24) hours and not more than one consecutive year for leisure, ...
  9. (Attractive (force)) In physics, a force is any influence that causes a free body to undergo an acceleration. ...
  10. (Attractive (physical)) Physical attractiveness is the perception of the physical traits of an individual as being aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. The term often implies sexual attractiveness.
  11. (The Attractions) Declan Patrick MacManus (born 25 August 1954), known by the stage name Elvis Costello, is a British singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the Punk/New Wave musical genre. ...
  12. The tendency to attract; The feeling of being attracted; An event or location that has a tendency to attract visitors
  13. (attract) To pull toward without touching; To arouse interest; To make someone feel sexually excited
  14. (attracted) drawn towards
  15. (Attractions) General all-inclusive term travel industry marketers use to refer to products that have visitor appeal, like museums, historic sites, performing arts institutions, preservation districts, theme parks, entertainment and national sites.
  16. (Attractions) The term refers to the activities available in an entertainment park. The attractions in the park may include rides, shows, and exhibits as listed on the park website or park map.
  17. (Attractions) Buzz Lightyear · Toy Story Mania
  18. (Attractions) Previews of future of special programs which are going to be aired.
  19. (ATTRACT) Ask TRiP to Rapidly Alleviate Confused Thoughts
  20. (attract) To pull together. When opposite charges are near each other, they pull together, or attract one another.
  21. (ATTRACT) Old version of -play. This caused DOS C&C1 to load a game recording from the file RECORD.BIN and play it out on the game's first multiplayer map, Green Acres. The demo starts after the game is left untouched on the main menu for one minute. ...
  22. (Attract) To say that a head H attracts a constituent C is to say that H triggers movement of C to some position on the edge of HP (so that C may move to adjoin to H, or to become the specifier of H).
  23. (Attract) to draw by appealing to the emotions or senses, by stimulating interest, or by exciting admiration; allure; invite.
  24. (attract) (v): to drag toward. Ad + trahere (to drag, draw).
  25. (Attractive) A lighter style, fresh, easy to drink wine.