0 notice, thought, or interest: --
Many countries are starting to turn their attention to new forms of energy.
He likes telling jokes and being the centre of attention at parties.
He wasn't paying attention to the safety instructions.
Don't pay any attention to Nina - she doesn't know what she's talking about.
If you don't pay attention now, you'll get it all wrong later.
After an hour, my attention started to wander (= I stopped taking notice).
Wait a moment and I'll give you my full/undivided attention (= I'll listen to and think about only you).
They're organizing a campaign to draw people's attention to the environmentally harmful effects of using their cars.
2 (especially in the armed forces) a way of standing, with the feet together, arms by your sides, head up, and shoulders back, and not moving: --
3 the act of directing the mind to listen, see, or understand; notice: --
4 time or effort that you are willing to give to help someone or something because you care about that person or thing: --
5 (in the armed forces) an order to stand straight and not move, with your feet together, arms by your sides, and head facing to the front, or this way of standing: --
Each cadet stood at attention for inspection.
This paper examines reactive focus on for m as a way of focusing students' attention on their own output.
Why we need to do these things is a question to which, sadly, they devote little attention.
This is of no theoretical interest and could be cured, for instance, by adding a warning feature drawing attention to skipped words.
Special attention should be given to the checking of tables, mathematical formulae and figures.
The meaning of tables and figures and the argument in general demand close attention to the text, whose style tends to the abstract and convoluted.
In order to avoid some technical details, for the hypergraph case we restrict our attention to the lower bound only.
The best way to elicit a schwa is to direct attention away from it and on to the stressed syllable of the word.
Future research should pay particular attention to the disruption of values, roles and social relationships.
