Helen Fenton

Attract: Definition and part of speech

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Attract

  1. n. Attraction.
  2. v. t. To draw to, or cause to tend to; esp. to cause to approach, adhere, or combine; or to cause to resist divulsion, separation, or decomposition.
  3. v. t. To draw by influence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Attraction: Definition and part of speech

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Attraction

  1. n. That which attracts; an attractive object or feature.
  2. n. An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.
  3. n. The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction.
  4. n. The power or act of alluring, drawing to, inviting, or engaging; an attractive quality; as, the attraction of beauty or eloquence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Attractive: Definition and part of speech

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Attractive

  1. n. That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.
  2. a. Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
  3. a. Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.