"distraction" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /dɪsˈtɹækʃən/ Audio: En-us-distraction.ogg [General-American] Forms: distractions [plural]
Rhymes: -ækʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French distraction, from Latin distractio. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|distraction}} Middle French distraction, {{der|en|la|distractio}} Latin distractio Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} distraction (countable and uncountable, plural distractions)
  1. Something that distracts. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (something that distracts): distraición [feminine] (Asturian), развлечение (razvlečenie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), distracció [feminine] (Catalan), distraktion [common-gender] (Danish), afledning [common-gender] (Danish), afleiding [feminine] (Dutch), häiriö (Finnish), häiriötekijä (Finnish), distraction [feminine] (French), distracción [feminine] (Galician), Ablenkung [feminine] (German), Ablenkungsmanöver [neuter] (German), elterelés (Hungarian), pengalih (Indonesian), cur isteach [masculine] (Irish), distrazione [feminine] (Italian), 逆上 (gyakujō) (alt: ぎゃくじょう) (Japanese), pīroiroi (Maori), distraccion [feminine] (Occitan), distracção [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), distração [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), distracción [feminine] (Spanish), distraktion [common-gender] (Swedish), สิ่งเบี่ยงเบนความสนใจ (Thai)
    Sense id: en-distraction-en-noun-jdOPm1DW Disambiguation of 'something that distracts': 86 2 1 7 3
  2. The process of being distracted. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the process of being distracted): distraición [feminine] (Asturian), отвличане (otvličane) (Bulgarian), разсейване (razsejvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), distracció [feminine] (Catalan), häiriö (Finnish), distracción [feminine] (Galician), Ablenkung [feminine] (German), Störung [feminine] (German), Zerstreuung [feminine] (German), elterelődik (Hungarian), szórakozottság (Hungarian), figyelmetlenség (Hungarian), szétszórtság (Hungarian), gangguan (Indonesian), seachmhall [masculine] (Irish), avocatio [feminine] (Latin), aljenazzjoni (Maltese), distracção [Portugal, feminine] (Portuguese), distração [Brazil, feminine] (Portuguese), отвлече́ние (otvlečénije) [neuter] (Russian), distracción [feminine] (Spanish), การเบี่ยงเบนความสนใจ (Thai)
    Sense id: en-distraction-en-noun-KsR5yPXW Disambiguation of 'the process of being distracted': 2 95 1 1 1
  3. Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-distraction-en-noun-fBrX3M7o
  4. Mental disarray; a deranged state of mind; insanity. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-distraction-en-noun-mRfmGQHt Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 26 2 7 47 18
  5. (medicine, archaic) Traction so exerted as to separate surfaces normally opposed. Tags: archaic, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-distraction-en-noun-jnS0IGKa Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: distractionless, distraction osteogenesis, drive to distraction, to distraction Related terms: distracter, distractee Translations (mental disorder): folie [feminine] (French), Wahnsinn [masculine] (German), Zerstreuung [feminine] (German), őrület (Hungarian), seachrán [masculine] (Irish), locura [feminine] (Spanish)
Disambiguation of 'mental disorder': 6 1 48 39 6

Noun [French]

IPA: /dis.tʁak.sjɔ̃/ Audio: Fr-distraction.ogg Forms: distractions [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin distractiōnem. Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|fr|la|distractiō|distractiōnem||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Latin distractiōnem, {{bor+|fr|la|distractiō|distractiōnem}} Borrowed from Latin distractiōnem Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} distraction f (plural distractions)
  1. distraction Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-distraction-fr-noun-Pj2tRpuS
  2. entertainment Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-distraction-fr-noun-s0Vk8cTN Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 15 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: distraire

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27",
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          "sense": "the process of being distracted",
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          "word": "Störung"
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          "word": "figyelmetlenség"
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          "word": "szétszórtság"
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          "sense": "the process of being distracted",
          "word": "gangguan"
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          "sense": "the process of being distracted",
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          "word": "aljenazzjoni"
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          "code": "th",
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          "sense": "the process of being distracted",
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          "ref": "1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2)",
          "text": "It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle."
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          "ref": "1673, Richard Baxter, Christian Directory",
          "text": "[…] if he speak the words of an oath in a strange language, thinking they signify something else, or if he spake in his sleep, or deliration, or distraction, it is no oath, and so not obligatory.",
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      "ipa": "/dɪsˈtɹækʃən/"
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      "_dis1": "6 1 48 39 6",
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      "sense": "mental disorder",
      "tags": [
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      "_dis1": "6 1 48 39 6",
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      "_dis1": "6 1 48 39 6",
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