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attract English

Meaning attract meaning

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Definitions in simple English

attract Verb

— If something attracts you, it makes you interested in it. She jumped up and down to attract attention. A cheaper price should also help attract customers. — If you are attracted to someone, you want to have a relationship with them, often a sexual relationship. Boys were mad about her, attracted by her good looks. — If mathx/math attracts mathy/math, mathx/math pull mathy/math to mathx/math. The city hoped the new roads would attract businesses. With magnets, opposite poles attract each other.

attract

— verb (= pull, pull in, draw, draw in) 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 — verb (= appeal) be attractive to The idea of a vacation appeals to me The beautiful garden attracted many people — verb exert a force on (a body) causing it to approach or prevent it from moving away the gravitational pull of a planet attracts other bodies

Synonyms attract synonyms

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attract English » English

draw entice lure allure fascinate tempt captivate pull charm appeal seduce enchant woo pull in draw in induce win recruit rally interest enrol enlist canvass bait mesmerize magnetize inhale decoy beguile appeal to temptation take in suck secure retire quote profit persuade obtain magnetise invite inveigle introduce intrigue guide get gain fastinate engage enamor

Topics attract topics

What do people use attract to talk about?
Person Life Sexual relations

Attract sexually
Language and thought Emotion Feel good Interested

Attract
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Pull

  • What words refer to causing something to move towards you without touching it?
    attract lure draw
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention
Language and thought Emotion Feel good

Interested

Conjugation attract conjugation

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attract · verb

Examples attract examples

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Simple sentences

Flowers attract bees.
He tried to attract her attention.
Positive atomic nuclei attract negative electrons.
Children often cry just to attract attention.
Tom didn't want to attract attention.
Bitter experience has taught me that happiness and wealth attract the envious. Unfortunately!
She likes to attract attention.
Opposites attract.
Even a small amount of human blood in the water can attract sharks from miles away.
Tom tried to attract Mary's attention.
Don't do anything to attract attention to yourself.
Newton's law of gravity is a mathematical description of the way bodies are observed to attract one another, based on many scientific experiments and observations.
Someone told me that people with type O blood attract more mosquitoes than people with any other blood type.
The peacock's beautiful tail helps it attract females.
I did not want to attract attention.
Otsvoyen decided to attract the guy's attention at any price.
Magnets attract iron.

Movie subtitles

If we want to stay alive, our village needs to lay low and not attract any attention.
To attract the court? We have more to do than to entertain the duchess.
It may attract police.
To attract your attention, she wrote the first letter.
Why don't we fire a few shots to attract attention?
Our city seems to attract more than its share of goodness.
Do I attract you?
You attract me, remember?
We don't want to attract attention.
Too many will attract attention.
We played shy and ran away into the garden. screaming loudly, showing off. wildly determined to attract his attention.
It's his job to ride on the dummy and attract the bull.
We'll try to attract his attention from up here.
Why shouldn't you attract attention?
I hope to attract our disbanded soldiers to the hidden wealth of our mountain ranges. and to the wealth that lies in the soil itself.
Beauty to attract the man you love.
I knew there was only one woman in the world who could attract men like that.
Turn out the light at the rear. It may attract police.
They get potted at but they don't attract as much attention as a military ship.
We can get a location and with your band to attract the crowd we can trim.
Oh Watson, while you're waiting, don't attract attention.
That'll attract him away from the steak, then you snatch it.
I hope you do not attract attention.
Those places attract a lot of scum and we clean it up by cracking down with a surprise raid once in a while.
The last thing we want to do is to attract attention. so you leave Sarah right where she is.
You have visions, you hear talking street sweepers, you attract the police.
But then you seem to attract that, Cary.
Why did you attract this kind of thing?
Her sour face will scare more people than her sweets can attract. Sweets? You are right.
All it did was attract the city council.
Your pretty voice'll attract people.
It might attract the police.
But doesn't the idea attract you at all?
Attract me?
Coming here, you attract attention on.
This is off the record. Those places attract a lot of scum and we clean it up by cracking down with a surprise raid once in a while.
Yes, she is. - Then she'd naturally attract the attention of most men.
Wherever you are, you always attract the best society.
I don't have to attract society.

News and current affairs

Tailoring financial products for diaspora communities could attract resources for investment, while reinforcing migrants' ties - economic and otherwise - to their home countries.
For our intention is to attract large Western energy companies with experience in this field as strategic investors.
Essential here, is to attract expatriate Afghans with skills and professional achievements to help in rebuilding the country by establishing small firms that will suck up the unemployed.
Sagging public infrastructure and an inability to attract foreign capital have made the economic outlook even worse.
A well-functioning market system helps attract high-tech investors from abroad and fosters high-technology startups at home.
Ban, who has just marked the half-way point in his five-year term in office, has so far been unable to attract a large worldwide audience for his activities. This is due, in part, to stylistic reasons, but also to the vagaries of UN diplomacy.
Argentina must struggle to attract capital; America sucks in capital from all over the world.
President Barack Obama, in particular, has been able to attract support as a liberal-left idealist and as a centrist-realist at the same time, which enabled him to win re-election in the face of a weak economy and an even weaker labor market.
Societies that fail to attract foreign brains stagnate.
People vary in their ability to attract others, and their attraction depends partly on inherent traits, partly on learned skills, and partly on social context.
But, if such protests attract too much attention, it is more likely that they will be quashed and their leaders repressed than that the corruption will be stopped.
Instead innovations come first and foremost from the United States, whose universities and laboratories attract the best and brightest from Europe, India, and China.
As the urban studies theorist Richard Florida has argued, it is technology and tolerance that attract talents.
In a populous country, it is not difficult to attract a large crowd.
Although rapidly aging Western countries are unable to attract the immigrants they need, they allow millions who are already there to suffer discrimination and abuse.
As the world's second-largest source of foreign direct investment, the EU wields considerable influence, with European investors bringing credibility to projects and regions, thereby serving to attract further investment.
It is not just the swing vote that Yanukovych needs to attract.
Insightful bloggers attract considerably more clicks than do official mouthpieces.
Al Qaeda and its affiliates have been known to attract disenchanted individuals from among Muslim and non-Muslim Europeans alike.
Likewise, governments that attract the production that was shed elsewhere need to have policies in place that enable them to benefit as much as possible from this global shift, thereby furthering their own economic development.
Indeed, the cost of labor in Africa is competitive enough that Ethiopia could attract companies from countries as poor as Bangladesh.
But a broader economic initiative is also needed to mobilize a critical mass of European and international financial resources to attract investment to the region and modernize its infrastructures and services.
Two-thirds of its population is under the age of 30, and unemployment is high; it needs to attract foreign investment for its oil and gas industry, and to finance road construction and other infrastructure projects.
The China factor also helps the US to retain existing allies and attract new ones, thereby enlarging its strategic footprint in Asia.
On the contrary, it is starving the ability of key units such as the WHO to carry out their job, and to attract and keep the expertise that they need.
In order to attract the FDI needed to achieve this, southern African countries have enacted laws aimed at encouraging greater private sector participation, with special emphasis on foreign investment.

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