distracting

distract | American Dictionary

distract
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈstrækt/
to take someone’s attention away from what that person is doing or should be doing:
She liked to work with the radio playing and said it did not distract her.

distraction

noun[ C/U ]us/dɪˈstræk·ʃən/
[ U ]It’s impossible to work with all this distraction.

Examples of distract

distract
It tends to distract faculty into emphasizing profitable research and to neglect their teaching duties.
In both cases, however, such encoding tricks distract from and complicate the semantic analysis.
This attitude has distracted attention away from the educational benefits of asynchronous electronic communication.
They should not be distracted by gesture and facial expression, they should focus on the content of the speech.
It is entirely possible to develop the analysis for a direct-style language, but this requires extra machinery that distracts from the presentation.
Parisian consumption was the opposite, oriented not towards male activity, but towards a consumerism controlled by a femininity that distracted men from productive work.
This suggests that focusing on the task of finding a particular address distracted the more cognitively-impaired participants from the dangers of road traffic.
The procedure most probably works by distracting attention from the painful stimulation and refocusing it on music.
He himself will not forget to claim his ' kola ' or rightful ' part ', as occurs when the potential donor seems distracted or recalcitrant.
She does not fish and goes there only to distract herself.
Unfocused and distracted selectivity results in chaotic cognitions and the typical symptoms of delirium.
Such individuals are capable of recognizing the causal structure of products, but may also be distracted by superficial features.
It happens to the subject, whom it distracts.
However, in the present study, distracting attention in the same way did not disrupt the line segment grouping discrimination.
Is easily distracted by things going on around him or her 16.
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