From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Etymology
Borrowed from [en], derived from the verb [fr], from [en] (used in [it]), from
[en]. [en]. Displaced native [enm], from [ang]; and [enm] (compare [ang]).
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Noun
[en-noun]
1. An attempt to cause damage , injury to, or death of an opponent or enemy.
2. * [en]
3. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-19 | author= Mark Tran (see http://www.theguardian.com/profile/marktran)
|volume=189|issue=6|page=1|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly |title=Denied an
education by war (see
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jul/12/war-denying-children-education)
|passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on
education is the proliferation of ATTACKS on schools[...]as children, teachers
or school buildings become the targets of ATTACKS. Parents fear sending their
children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.}}
1. [en] Any of several specific maneuvers, skills, or special abilities that a character can use to inflict damage against opponents.
2. * {{ quote-web | en | year=2002 | month=March | author=Aaron Butler | title=Mimesis Online (PC) | work=GameSpy.com | url=http://www.gamespy.com/reviews/march02/mimesisonline/ | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021216225820/http://www.gamespy.com/reviews/march02/mimesisonline/ | archivedate=2002-12-16
|passage=Combat in _Mimesis Online_ is nice and simple. You click on your
target [...] and then keep right-clicking your chosen ATTACK from the drop
down menu. Every time you right click on the ATTACK, your character will
swing, shoot, etc.}}
1. * {{ quote-web | en | date=2022-01-28 | author=Chris Tapsell | title=Pokémon Legends Arceus Kleavor boss fight: How to beat Kleavor | work=Eurogamer.ner | url=https://www.eurogamer.net/pokemon-legends-arceus-kleavor-boss-fight-how-to-beat-kleavor-8039
|passage=Kleavor has several ATTACKS that it's worth roughly memorising: a
charge ATTACK, where it runs at you quickly; a jump ATTACK, that causes a
pillar of rock to spike out from under the ground; and a spin ATTACK that does
damage in a circle around it.}}
1. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical , verbal , emotional , or other assault .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1913 | author= 吴语: Robert Barr (writer)
|title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
|chapter=4|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL1796924W |passage=“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. …”}}
1. A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle .
2. [en] The beginning of active operations on anything.
3. [en] [en] An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
4. [en] Collectively , the bowler s of a cricket side .
5. [en] Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
6. [en] The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
7. [en] The sudden onset of a disease or condition .
8. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
9. [en] The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
10. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2004 | author=Gary Giddins | title=Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century | page=322
|passage=Eric Reed was a curious choice as pianist, since his busy Petersonian
ATTACK is the antithesis of Lewis's, but he acquitted himself with panache,
[...]}}
1. [en] The amount of time taken 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 wash ing to shore would feature a slow attack).
2. [en] The initial sensory impact of a wine .
**** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
**** Hyponyms
{{col4|en |acid attack |Adams-Stokes attack,Stokes-Adams attack |arson attack
|asthma attack |asthmatic attack |billion laughs attack |bioattack,bio-attack
|birthday attack |Byzantine attack |chosen-ciphertext attack |chosen-plaintext
attack |ciphertext-only attack |cold boot attack |collision attack |compound
attack |Coppersmith's attack |copy attack |counter-attack |cryptanalytic
attack |cryptographic attack |cyberattack,cyber-attack |dictionary attack
|discovered attack |drop attack |ember attack |evil maid attack |false attack
|fraggle attack |goal attack |Grob's attack |heart attack |helitack
|known-plaintext attack |man-in-the-middle attack |multiattack |panic attack
|personal attack |pincer attack |poisoning attack |postattack |preattack
|preimage attack |real-time attack |replay attack |salami attack |score attack
|second-preimage attack,second preimage attack |sex attack |shark attack
|shatter attack |smudge attack |smurf attack |spack attack |spaz attack |spike
attack |subattack |suicide attack |supply chain attack |Sybil attack
|time-attack,time attack|TOAD attack |transient ischaemic attack,transient
ischemic attack |watering hole attack |wing attack }}
**** Derived terms
{{col4|en|attack plan|attack rate|plan of attack |angle of attack |attackable
|attack ad |attack aircraft |attack au fer |attack dog |attack helicopter
|attacking midfielder|attack surface |attacking zone |attack is the best form
of defence |attack is the best form of defense |attacklike |attackman |attack
page |attack therapy |attack time |attack timing |attack vector |attackworthy
|complement membrane attack complex|maximum attack |line of attack |membrane
attack complex |nonattack |nonattackable |open the attack |passive attack
|personally attack |the best defence is attack |unattackable }}
**** Related terms
{{col2|en |attach }}
**** Translations
[attempt to cause damage, injury, or death]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Amharic: [am]
- Amharic: [am]
- Arabic: [ar] [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Bashkir: [ba]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Breton: [br] , [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chechen: [ce]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky] , [ky]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] [rare]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Middle English: [enm]
- Mongolian:
- Nepali: [ne] , [ne]
- Ngazidja Comorian: [zdj]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Odia: [or]
- Old English: [ang]
- Pashto: [ps] , [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- Yiddish: [yi] , [yi]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position,
idea, object, or thing]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[offense of a battle]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Basque: [eu]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maori: [mi] [by surprise] , [mi] , [mi] [by stealth] , [mi] [by charging] , [mi]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] , [ru] [of fortifications]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd] , [f]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Telugu: [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Vietnamese: [vi] ( [vi] )
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: bowlers of a cricket side]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[volleyball: hit other than serve or block that sends the ball over the net]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[lacrosse: the attackmen of a team]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[medicine: sudden onset of a disease]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Norwegian:
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Welsh: [cy]
- Zazaki: [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to
maximum level]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Greek: [el]
[trans-bottom]
*** Verb
[past2=attackt]
1. [en] To apply violent force to someone or something.
2. * [en]
3. [en] To aggressive ly challenge a person, idea, etc., with words ( _particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar_ ).
4. * [en]
5. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=June 3, 2012
|author=Nathan Rabin |journal=w:The A.V. Club |publisher=w:Fusion Media Group
|title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9;
originally aired 11/19/1992)
|url=http://www.avclub.com/articles/mr-plow,75560/ |passage=In its God-like
prime, The Simpsons ATTACKED well-worn satirical fodder from unexpected
angles, finding fresh laughs in the hoariest of subjects.}}
1. [en] To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
2. * [chapter=25]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1866 | author=w:Balfour Stewart | title=An Elementary Treatise on Heat
|passage=Hydrofluoric acid [...] ATTACKS the glass.}}
1. [en] To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
2. * [en]
3. [en] To aim balls at the batsman ’s wicket .
4. [en] To set a field , or bowl in a manner design ed to get wickets.
5. [en] To bat aggressive ly, so as to score run s quick ly.
6. [en] To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
7. * [en]
8. [en] To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other rider s.
9. [en] (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
**** Conjugation
[old=1]
**** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[to apply violent force]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy] , [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Cheyenne: [chy]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kabuverdianu: [kea] , [kea]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Lao: [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Manx: [gv]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Mongolian: [mn] , [mn]
- Norman: [nrf]
- North Frisian:
- Northern Thai: [nod] , [nod]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic: [cu]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tibetan: [bo]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Zazaki: [zza] , [zza] , [zza]
[trans-bottom]
[to aggressively challenge with words]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo] , [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el] [person] , [el] [idea]
- Norman: [nrf]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl] , [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa] , [wa] , [wa] , [wa]
- West Frisian: [fy]
[trans-bottom]
[to deal with something undesirable in a direct way]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- Slovak: [sk]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: to aim balls at the batsman’s wicket]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: to set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[cricket: to bat aggressively]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[soccer: to move forward in an attempt to score point]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Walloon: [wa]
[trans-bottom]
[checktrans-top]
- Breton: [br]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id] , [id]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. Designed or kept for the purpose of confrontation.
*** Further reading
- [R:Webster 1913]
- [R:Century 1911]
- [R:OneLook]
[en]
** Swedish
*** Etymology
From [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [sv]
- [sv]
*** Noun
[c]
1. [en] ; an attempt to cause damage
2. [en] ; offense of a battle
**** Declension
[sv-infl-noun-c-er]
**** Synonyms
- [sv]
- [sv]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|sv |astmaattack |attackdykare |attackflyg |attackflygplan
|attackhelikopter |attackplan |attackrobot |attackstyrka |attackubåt
|bombattack |cyberattack |drönarattack |flygattack |frontalattack |gasattack
|granatattack |gråtattack |hackarattack |hajattack |hjärtattack |hostattack
|hämndattack |kavalleriattack |luftattack |migränattack |missilattack
|motattack |nysattack |nätattack |panikattack |piratattack |raketattack
|robotattack |självmordsattack |skrattattack |syraattack |terrorattack
|terroristattack |vedergällningsattack |virusattack |ångestattack
|överbelastningsattack }}
**** Related terms
- [sv]
*** Further reading
- [R:sv:SO]
*** Anagrams
- [sv]