attending
Use Attending in a sentence
dɪŋ adjective (of a physician)
1.
having primary responsibility for a patient.
2.
holding a staff position in an accredited hospital.
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verb (used with object)
1.
to be present at: to attend a lecture; to attend church.
2.
to go with as a concomitant or result; accompany: Fever may attend a cold. Success attended her hard work.
3.
to take care of; minister to; devote one's services to: The nurse attended the patient daily.
4.
to wait upon; accompany as a companion or servant: The retainers attended their lord.
5.
to take charge of; watch over; look after; tend; guard: to attend one's health.
verb (used without object)
8.
to take care or charge: to attend to a sick person.
9.
to apply oneself: to attend to one's work.
10.
to pay attention; listen or watch attentively; direct one's thought; pay heed: to attend to a speaker.
11.
to be present: She is a member but does not attend regularly.
12.
to be present and ready to give service; wait (usually followed by on or upon ): to attend upon the Queen.
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| —vb (when intr, | |
| 1. | to be present at (an event, meeting, etc) |
| 2. | to give care; minister |
| 3. | to pay attention; listen |
| 4. | (tr; often passive) to accompany or follow: a high temperature attended by a severe cough |
| 5. | (intr; |
| 6. | to devote one's time; apply oneself: to attend to the garden |
| 7. | (tr) to escort or accompany |
| 8. | (intr; |
| 9. | archaic (tr) to wait for; expect |
| 10. | obsolete (intr) to delay |
| [C13: from Old French atendre, from Latin attendere to stretch towards, from tendere to extend] | |
| at'tender | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
attend
c.1300, "to direct one's mind or energies," from O.Fr. atendre (12c., Mod.Fr. attendre) "to expect, wait for, pay attention," from L. attendere "give heed to," lit. "to stretch toward," from ad- "to" + tendere "stretch" (see tenet). The notion is of "stretching" one's mind
toward something. Sense of "take care of, wait upon" is from early 15c.
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Example sentences
When you switch to a vegan lifestyle, attending parties and other social gatherings can be tough.
Organizing or attending protests gets fitted between flirting, studying, and holding down a job.
The problems attending the purchase of gasoline, and doubts about its future availability, soon affected the automobile market.
Two of them are pretty obvious and completely unoriginal: correcting papers and attending department meetings.
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