Beckon vs Attracts - What's the difference?
beckon | attracts |
(ambitransitive) To wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer.
* Dryden
* Shakespeare
(attract)
To pull toward without touching.
* Derham
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To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
* (John Milton)
As verbs the difference between beckon and attracts
is that beckon is (ambitransitive) to wave and/or to nod to somebody with the intention to make the person come closer while attracts is (attract).As a noun beckon
is a sign made without words; a beck.beckon
English
Verb
(en verb)- His distant friends, he beckons near.
- It beckons you to go away with it.
attracts
English
Verb
(head)attract
English
Verb
(en verb)- All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
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- Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.