Definition
(medical) attention: (medical) assistance, care, aid, help, treatment
(Could you give me) your attention please. (Could you) listen to, look at me please?
Please pay close attention to the following instructions, because they will not be repeated and may save your life one day.
Attention (everybody! I have an announcement to make): Listen; silence please; stop what you're doing (everybody! I have an announcement to make)
Pronunciation examples
UK: That broken leg needs urgent attention.
US: He tried to attract my attention by shouting.
- "It's not fair to you for me to pretend our relationship is going to work when I know in my heart my attention is elsewhere - Europe."
- "Bruno : Attention, USS Calypso, this is Dr. Delavigne, I'm in the water, do you read me?"
- "General Hurley Burley : Attention Horatio Oléré."
- "Attention Department Heads-"
- "General Hurley Burley : Attention Horatio Oléré!"
- "Now, please direct your attention to the screen in front of you."
- "Stink gets all the attention!"
- "Attention: Rumor has it that the monkeys have made a real mess."
- "Attention all Tsars, Fuhrers, Fascists and Autocrats!"
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