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Attention vs Halloo - What's the difference?

attention | halloo |

As nouns the difference between attention and halloo

is that attention is (label) mental focus while halloo is a shout of.

As interjections the difference between attention and halloo

is that attention is while halloo is used to greet someone, or to catch their attention.

As a verb halloo is

to shout.

attention

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (label) Mental focus.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
  • * , chapter=3
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”  He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
  • , title= The British Longitude Act Reconsidered , passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
  • (label) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
  • * 1818 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), (Frankenstein); or, the Modern Prometheus , ch. 3,
  • She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
  • * 1910 , (Stephen Leacock), " ,
  • For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
  • A state of alertness in the standing position.
  • Derived terms

    () * at attention * attention deficit disorder * attention-grabbing * attention line * attention span * attention whore * attentional * centre of attention/center of attention * draw attention * flow of attention * pay attention * stand to attention

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
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    halloo

    English

    Interjection

  • Used to greet someone, or to catch their attention
  • Used in hunting to urge on the pursuers
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shout of
  • * Milton
  • List! List! I hear / Some far-off halloo break the silent air.

    Verb

  • To shout .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=S. H. Hammond, title=Wild Northern Scenes, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=As our object was rather to enjoy the music of the chase, than to capture the deer, they shouted and hallooed as he entered the water, and he wheeled back, and went tearing in huge affright through the woods, up the island again. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1907, author=William Hope Hodgson, title=The Boats of the "Glen Carrig", chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=As we ran, we hallooed , and so came upon the boy, and I saw that he had my sword. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=Charles S. Brooks, title=There's Pippins And Cheese To Come, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=We hallooed again, to rouse the trapper. }}
  • To encourage with shouts.
  • * Prior
  • Old John hallooes his hounds again.
  • To chase with shouts or outcries.
  • * Shakespeare
  • If I fly / Halloo me like a hare.
  • To call or shout to; to hail.
  • (Shakespeare)