Attending

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Attend \At*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attended}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Attending}.] [OE. atenden, OF. atendre, F. attendre, to
     expect, to wait, fr. L. attendre to stretch, (sc. animum), to
     apply the mind to; ad + tendere to stretch. See {Tend}.]
     1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give
        heed to; to regard. [Obs.]


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              The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not
              attend the unskillful words of the passenger. --Sir
                                                    P. Sidney.
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     2. To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch
        over.
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     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.
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              The fifth had charge sick persons to attend.
                                                    --Spenser.
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              Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak.
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              With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to
              attend William thither.               --Macaulay.
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     4. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or
        consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects.
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              What cares must then attend the toiling swain.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     5. To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert,
        a business meeting.
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     6. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store
        for. [Obs.]
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              The state that attends all men after this. --Locke.
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              Three days I promised to attend my doom. --Dryden.
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     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}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  attending
       adj 1: being present at meeting or event [syn: {in attendance(p)}]
       2: serving attendance on someone; "a ministering angel"; "the
          angels ministrant sang"; "the attending physician" [syn: {ministering},
           {ministrant}]
       n 1: the process whereby a person concentrates on some features
            of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others
            [syn: {attention}] [ant: {inattention}]
       2: the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) [syn:
          {attendance}] [ant: {nonattendance}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "attending":
     accessory, accompanying, ancillary, associated, attendant,
     coincident, collateral, combined, concomitant, concurrent,
     conjoint, correlative, coupled, fellow, helping, incident, joined,
     joint, menial, ministering, mutual, paired, parallel, satellite,
     servile, serving, servitorial, simultaneous, twin, waiting