attack meaning
EN
[əˈtæk] [-æk] 
US WAttack
- Attack may refer to:
- Offensive (military)
- Charge (warfare)
- Attack (fencing)
- Strike (attack)
- Attack, 1980's band
- The Attack (band), 1960s
- Attack Records, label
- Attack! Books, publisher
- Attack (computing)
- Attack (music), the prefix or initial phase of a sound
- Attacca, the immediate joining of a musical movement to a previous one
- Political Party Attack, a political party in Bulgaria
- In newspaper headlines, to save space, sometimes "criticise".
- NounPLattacks
- An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- “I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I ? Why didn’t I telephone ? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”
- A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
- The army timed their attack to coincide with the local celebrations.
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- The sudden onset of a disease.
- I´ve had an attack of the flu.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
- An attempt to cause damage or injury to, or to somehow detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- VerbSGattacksPRattackingPT, PPattacked
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- This species of snake will only attack humans if it feels threatened.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- She published an article attacking the recent pay cuts.
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- We´ll have dinner before we attack the biology homework.
- I attacked the meal with a hearty appetite.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an attempt to actively score point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- Six successive defeats had left them rooted to the bottom of the Premier League table but, clearly under instructions to attack from the outset, Bolton started far the brighter.
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This is incredible stuff from Paraguay now. They have their tails up and are imposing wave after wave of attacks on the Argentina goal.
- Perhaps symbolically, Van Doesburg was building a house of straw: he died within a few months of completion, not in Meudon but in Davos, of a heart attack following a bout of asthma.
- More work is also needed to clarify whether Empoasca onukii injures other plants besides tea, or if there are other empoascan species attacking tea shrubs in these areas.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- One patient reported a temporal association between the introduction of pramipexol and the onset of sleep attacks.
- Three buildings in the World Trade Center Complex collapsed due to structural failure on the day of the attack.
- If you sneak up from behind like that, you'll give me a heart attack!
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of attack in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "attack" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.