to attract
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- verb
- /əˈtrækt/
:
atraer
- When you place a magnet near metal, it will attract the metal towards it.
- attract and repel
- attracted to electrical fields
- attracting and repelling
It looks like something's attracting the points to that one square.
- It looks like something's attracting the points to that one square.
- Almost without warning, the Earth attracted one final asteroid.
- Again like charges attract and unlike charges repel.
- Charge opposite charges attract like charges repel.
- And anything steel comes along, it will attract itself to that steel.
- So metal in your body further attracts this virus or this flu, right?
Examples
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The blood in the water will attract the shark even more than the charge.
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And the gravity of large rocky planets can attract huge amounts of gas.
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When we feel good, we attract more good into our life.
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Now you can see it's attracted to my hand again.
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And then when you say it, you'll start to attract people who value that.
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Any movement in the water attracts his attention.
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Of course, the problem with shying away from publicity these days is that it tends to attract even more.
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Some of the fortunate suburbs, like Blue Island, attracted industries and evolved a solid tax base.
Academic text (1994) -
Well, they say that LA attracts big fish from Little ponds.
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Vibrations attract them.
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Etymology
The word attract comes from the root tract that means 'to pull', just like a tractor pulls a load. So in physics to attract is to 'pull' objects toward each other, as a magnet or gravity does.