attention /əˈtɛn.ʃn̩/noun 4exclamation 2forms 1phrases 2 noun4 •careful thought that someone gives to what they see, hear or doPlease direct your attention to the following words. •A state of alertness in the standing position.The company will now come to attention. •An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper. — 1816 •A kind of prioritisation technique in neural networks that assigns soft weights between tokens from two (or more) input sequences in order to compute the required output. exclamation2 •A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown. •Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position. formsattentions Phrases with attention attention whoreA person who routinely solicits attention through inappropriate tactics and provocation. pay attentionTo attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention.