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Definition of Distracting

Distracting
Distracting Dis*tract"ing, a. Tending or serving to distract.
Distracting
Distract Dis*tract", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Distracted, old p. p. Distraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Distracting.] 1. To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin. A city . . . distracted from itself. --Fuller. 2. To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to distract the attention. Mixed metaphors . . . distract the imagination. --Goldsmith. 3. To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. --Milton. 4. To unsettle the reason of; to render insane; to craze; to madden; -- most frequently used in the participle, distracted. A poor mad soul; . . . poverty hath distracted her. --Shak.

Meaning of Distracting from wikipedia

- ability to be attentive to goal relative stimulus with the addition of distracting stimuli interference. School-aged students, with developing brains, are...
- Nefundella distractor is a species of snout moth in the genus Nefundella. It is found in Puerto Rico. "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org...
- delay detection or recognition of the prey. These distractive markings serve as camouflage by distracting the predator's attention from recognising the prey...
- Distractive Killusions is the third full-length album by Polish symphonic black metal band Vesania. It was recorded at Studio X in Olsztyn, Poland by...
- not used to distract the hounds or horses from a trail, rather to guide them along it. The earliest reference to using herring for distracting hounds is...
- Vitakka-saṇṭhāna Sutta, including: "The Removal of Distracting Thoughts" (Soma Thera, 1960/1981), "The Removal of Distracting Thoughts" (Nanamoli Bhikkhu & Bhikkhu...
- media savvy was perceived necessary to better cope with the website's distracting content and fickle audience. Some YouTube videos have themselves had...
- athletic spectacles as means for tyrants to control their subjects by distracting them. Do not imagine that there is any bird more easily caught by decoy...
- mean multiple things from respectful fear to excessive or harmfully distracting practices of others, to cultic practices. It was often contrasted with...
- Golos and Peterburgskii Listok, accusing them of publishing trifles and distracting readers from the pressing social concerns of contemporary Russia through...