attract-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: draw in, create interest in,

Examples:
That night club attracts a lot of twenty-somethings.
The diver's bloody bag of speared fish attracted several reef sharks.
The Empire State Building has attracted visitors for decades.
Screams attracted the attention of several bystanders.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: attract.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: pull with a physical force

Examples:
The iron filings were attracted to the magnet.
The screen on my computer monitor seems to easily attract dust particles.
The sun and the earth attract each other through the force of gravity.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3