to call attention
29
2.9
- phrasal verb
- /kɔl əˈtɛnʃən/
:
llamar la atención
- We've begun the process by calling attention to some of the meanings and references behind the words.
- call attention to the fact
- call attention to the need
- call attention to common problems
OH, saying well, even if it isn't true, it calls attention to an underlying problem.
- OH, saying well, even if it isn't true, it calls attention to an underlying problem.
- If you know other websites that I should know and should call attention to, could you send me an E e-mail?
- You just said something that I want to make sure I take out my magic highlighter and I call attention to that.
- Well, you know, it's in part because that's the way we publicize and call attention to and have conversations about art.
- That's, that's the most important thing to to adhere to is to not call attention to those periods of time when all of this was was evolving.
- Anyway, a feminist media critic kind of called attention to a lot of, like, the toxic responses from people who didn't like the politics.
- And the one you call attention to is that is the idea that the discount rate for future generation is the same discount rate that applies from period to.
Examples
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So just stay calm and don't call attention to yourself; you'll last longer that way.
Fiction book (1992) -
Decolonized viewers must question and call attention to these colonialist conceptions.
Academic text (2008) -
The last thing I wanted to do was to make a scene, to call attention to myself.
Fiction book (2000) -
And one of these nations is trying to call attention to this danger.
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And, you know, I'm calling attention to that.
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Throughout his public life, Jesus managed to call attention to himself as an authority who was presenting new ideas.
Academic text (2013) -
The first purpose of this study was to call attention to this underidentified disorder and the available treatments.
Academic text (2008) -
I wanted to call attention to the drama enacted in the prose.
Academic text (2017) -
The 23rd Pentecostal World Conference at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, called attention to the errors of this prosperity teaching.
Academic text (2015) -
The senator's speech was designed to call attention to the urgent need for healthcare reform.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To show or direct attention to something
∞
1.8
To tell someone about something important or show it to them
991
1.9
Make people notice or want something
397
3.7
To show that something is very important
152
3.5
To say something loudly so people can hear
71
2.5
To make people notice something or someone
47
2.6
Tell many people about something so they know it exists
37
3.5
To help more people know about a problem or cause
22
2.8
Make someone notice you or something
11
3.0
To get noticed and make people interested
9
4.1
To mention something for discussion in a meeting or court
8
3.6
Attract people or attention
8
2.7
Attract someone's attention because it is interesting or noticeable
3
3.3
Make someone notice something quickly and feel interested
3
4.7
Make something stand out as important
3
3.7
Make someone understand something they did not know before
3
3.9
To make people look at or listen to you
1
3.2
To attract and keep people's interest
1
4.4
Make someone notice something
Make something seem important or worthy of attention
To strongly attract or excite someone
Antonyms
How Noticeable
13
4.0
340
3.3
29
2.9
∞
1.8
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to make people notice something' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'call' (to attract or summon) with 'attention' (notice or focus). This verb + noun collocation follows a common compositional pattern (as in 'call attention to') and is cross‑linguistically frequent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Call attention comes from the simple picture of using your voice to make people look: to call (shout or speak) so you get someone's attention (notice). So, it means 'to make people notice something'.