attending
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (2)
- the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of othersSynonyms: attention
- the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)Synonyms: attendance
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger.— Sir P. Sidney.[1913 Webster]
2.To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over. [1913 Webster]
3.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. [1913 Webster]
The fifth had charge sick persons to attend.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
Attends the emperor in his royal court.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]
4.To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. [1913 Webster]
What cares must then attend the toiling swain.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
5.To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting. [1913 Webster]
6.To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
The state that attends all men after this.— Locke.[1913 Webster]
Three days I promised to attend my doom.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
Syn: To Attend, Mind, Regard, Heed, Notice.
Usage: Attend is generic, the rest are specific terms. To mind is to attend so that it may not be forgotten; to regard is to look on a thing as of importance; to heed is to attend to a thing from a principle of caution; to notice is to think on that which strikes the senses. --Crabb. See Accompany. [1913 Webster]