Distraction vs Traction - What's the difference?
distraction | traction |
Something that distracts.
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 The process of being distracted.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Perturbation; disorder; disturbance; confusion.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
Mental disorder; a deranged state of mind; insanity.
* Richard Baxter
the act of pulling something along a surface using motive power
the condition of being so pulled
Grip
the pulling power of an engine or animal
the adhesive friction of a wheel etc on a surface
(medicine) a mechanically applied sustained pull, especially to a limb
(business) the extent of adoption of a new product or service, typically measured in number of customers or level of revenue achieved
(politics) popular support
As nouns the difference between distraction and traction
is that distraction is something that distracts while traction is the act of pulling something along a surface using motive power.As a verb traction is
to apply a sustained pull to (a limb, etc).distraction
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content", or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",
- It's true that the Copernican Systeme introduceth distraction in the universe of Aristotle.
- 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.