Attend
[ə'tend] or [ə'tɛnd]
Definition
(verb.) give heed (to); 'The children in the audience attended the recital quietly'; 'She hung on his every word'; 'They attended to everything he said'.
(verb.) be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc.; 'She attends class regularly'; 'I rarely attend services at my church'; 'did you go to the meeting?'.
(verb.) to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result; 'Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation'.
(verb.) take charge of or deal with; 'Could you see about lunch?'; 'I must attend to this matter'; 'She took care of this business'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard.
(v. t.) To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.
(v. t.) To go or stay with, as a companion, nurse, or servant; to visit professionally, as a physician; to accompany or follow in order to do service; to escort; to wait on; to serve.
(v. t.) To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects.
(v. t.) To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting.
(v. t.) To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
(v. i.) To apply the mind, or pay attention, with a view to perceive, understand, or comply; to pay regard; to heed; to listen; -- usually followed by to.
(v. i.) To accompany or be present or near at hand, in pursuance of duty; to be ready for service; to wait or be in waiting; -- often followed by on or upon.
(v. i.) (with to) To take charge of; to look after; as, to attend to a matter of business.
(v. i.) To wait; to stay; to delay.
Editor: Milton
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Accompany, escort, follow, go with, go along with, keep company with.[2]. Guard, watch, have in keeping.[3]. Serve, lackey, minister to, wait on, dance attendance on.[4]. Be present at.[5]. Await, be in store for, be ready for.
v. n. [1]. Listen, hearken, hear, give ear, pay attention.[2]. Tend, serve, wait, be attendant.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Listen, heed, notice, observe, wait_on, serve, mind, watch, accompany, consort,follow, imply, involve
ANT:Wander, disregard, leave, forsake, abandon, desert, exclude, neutralize
Checker: Zelig
Definition
v.t. to wait on or accompany: to be present at: to wait for: to give attention (with to).—v.i. to yield attention: to act as an attendant: to wait be consequent (with to on upon).—ns. Attend′ance act of attending: (B.) attention careful regard: presence: the persons attending; Attend′ancy (obs.) attendance a retinue: (obs.) relative position.—adj. Attend′ant giving attendance: accompanying.—n. one who attends or accompanies: a servant: what accompanies or follows: (law) one who owes a duty or service to another.—ns. Attend′er one who gives heed: a companion:—fem. Atten′dress; Attend′ment (Sir T. Browne) attention.—adj. Attent′ (Spens.) giving attention.—n. (Spens.) attention.—In attendance on waiting upon attending.
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Examples
- The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The drone said unaffectedly, You will excuse me; I really cannot attend to the shop! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I left them still listening to him when I withdrew to attend to my new duties. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Hannah Brown will preside, and all are invited to attend. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Better employed than to attend to it,' said Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Gurth thanked the Captain for his courtesy, and promised to attend to his recommendation. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- She made no reply--she seemed to be too much wrapped up in her own thoughts to attend to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I did not like to work; but I did as much of it, while young, as grown men can be hired to do in these days, and attended school at the same time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Adrian sat at the helm; I attended to the rigging, the breeze right aft filled our swelling canvas, and we ran before it over the untroubled deep. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The one missent must first be attended to; it had been written five days ago. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They are attended with thick clouds and rain. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- All advances into the city were thus attended with much danger. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These articles were brought to me by Skyresh Bolgolam in person attended by two under-secretaries, and several persons of distinction. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I was attending a little patient in the college near, said he, and saw it dropped out of his chamber window, and so came to pick it up. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In a narrative not intended to be strictly technical, it would probably tire the reader to follow this material in detail through the numerous steps attending the magnetic separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I had also sometimes the honour of attending my master in his visits to others. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Or why had not she rather gone to her own room, as she had felt to be safest, instead of attending the rehearsal at all? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Harriet was to sit again the next day; and Mr. Elton, just as he ought, entreated for the permission of attending and reading to them again. Jane Austen. Emma.
- In attending to your interests, I wish to have all possible checks upon me; it is right that I should have them; I court inquiry. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Attending court the other day--I attend it regularly, with my documents--I taxed him with it, and he almost confessed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But this accounts not sufficiently for the satisfaction, which attends riches. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It was less of her I would speak, said he, than of Prince John; and I would fain know somewhat of a faithful squire, and why he now attends me not? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To all this, Mr Venus, with his shock of dusty hair cocked after the manner of a terrier's ears, attends profoundly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You'll find my terms very cheap and reasonable, and no man attends more to his clients than I do, and I hope I know a little of my profession besides. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Who attends to them? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The same imperfection attends our ideas of the Deity; but this can have no effect either on religion or morals. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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