Translation
to distract, to divert (the attention)
Word origin
From Latin distrahere, dis- 'apart' plus trahere 'to pull' - literally to pull somebody's attention in different directions. French distraire carries both the modern senses Esperanto keeps, distracting and entertaining.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- distrahere
- English cognates
- distract, distraught, tractor
Examples
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The noise distracted me during the lesson.
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She told jokes to keep the children entertained.
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Do not distract the driver while he is driving.
This is the band's gift to anyone learning to spot false seams, because it looks so exactly like a compound. - is a genuine Esperanto prefix meaning scattered in all directions - i, i, i. is genuinely the number three. So reads as though it should mean to split something three ways, and it does not, ever.
Distr- is one root, from Latin distrahere. The in it is the last syllable of trahere, to pull, and has nothing to do with counting.
Two senses, both alive. The core one is pulling attention away from what somebody is doing: . The friendlier one is pulling them away from boredom or worry, so also covers entertaining and taking somebody's mind off things - a is a light read. a is the adjective for the absent-minded person whose attention wanders on its own.
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