| 单词 |
attracting |
| 释义 |
▪ I. attracting, vbl. n.|əˈtræktɪŋ| [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of drawing; attraction.
1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 13 A power and vertue of healing and attracting. 1611Cotgr., Attraiement, an attracting, or drawing unto. [Now chiefly gerundial.] ▪ II. aˈttracting, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That attracts: a. physically; b. emotionally, attractive (? obs.). Hence aˈttractingly adv.
1661Morgan Sph. of Gentry iii. v. 53 The..attracting songs of the Syrens. 1753Richardson Grandison I. iv. 16 The most attracting ornament in it. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art II. 163 Place the two attracting poles..on the middle of one of the bars. 1850Daubeny Atom. The. iv. 117 The attracting force of the atom of a given body. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. vii. lv. IV. 103 She had been attractingly wrought upon by the refined negations he presented to her. |
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