What's the difference between attend and lift?

Attend


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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
  • (2) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
  • (3) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (4) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
  • (5) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (6) Of the 16 cases, 14 (88%) were diagnosed as TSS or probable TSS by the attending physician, although only nine (64%) of the 14 diagnosed cases were given the correct discharge code.
  • (7) After an introductory training program, the students asked the patients arriving at the hospital out-patient clinic for permission to observe them throughout the attendance given.
  • (8) Aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) inducibility, carbon monoxide in expired air (CO), serum gammaglutamyl-transferase (GGT), and total cholesterol were compared in equal-sized, age-matched samples of healthy middle-aged males born in 1921, 1934-1936, and 1946 attending the ongoing preventive medical population program in Malmö.
  • (9) Data from 579 medical students from the classes of 1979-80 through 1983-84 attending a midwestern medical college were analyzed via moderated multiple regression.
  • (10) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
  • (11) After permeabilization, with attendant partial extraction, the preparation can be fixed, then viewed by either deep-etch replication, or by high-resolution scanning electron microscopy, with structure of interest revealed in deep view.
  • (12) The level of infection by Chlamydia trachomatis in patients attending different units of urogenital diseases was evaluated.
  • (13) Information from nurses differs from that provided by attending physicians.
  • (14) Officers arrested her last month during the protest against oil drilling by the energy firm Cuadrilla at Balcombe in West Sussex – a demonstration Lucas has attended several times.
  • (15) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
  • (16) But in a setback to the UK, Somaliland, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, refused British entreaties to attend on the grounds that it would not have been treated as equal to the Somali government.
  • (17) Finally, the contribution of regular dental attendance to periodontal health is discussed.
  • (18) It showed that the proportion of patients attending with recurrent herpes had increased from 18% in 1972 to 31% in 1982.
  • (19) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.
  • (20) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.

Lift


Definition:

  • (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
  • (v. t.) To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to raise; to elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place; -- said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.
  • (v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
  • (v. t.) To bear; to support.
  • (v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
  • (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
  • (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
  • (v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
  • (v. t.) To live by theft.
  • (n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
  • (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
  • (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
  • (n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
  • (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
  • (n.) A handle.
  • (n.) An exercising machine.
  • (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
  • (n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
  • (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
  • (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
  • (n.) A layer of leather in the heel.
  • (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He still denied it and said he was giving the girl a lift.
  • (2) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
  • (3) Earlier this month, Khamenei insisted that all sanctions be lifted immediately on a deal being reached, a condition that the US State Department dismissed.
  • (4) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
  • (5) For example, Asda lifted the price of frozen pizza from £1.50 to £2 as a “two for £3” offer appeared – and dropped the price again when the offer concluded.
  • (6) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (7) Or perhaps the "mad cow"-fuelled beef war in the late 1990s, when France maintained its ban on British beef for three long years after the rest of the EU had lifted it, prompting the Sun to publish a special edition in French portraying then president Jacques Chirac as a worm.
  • (8) Hopes that the Queen's diamond jubilee and the £9bn spent on the Olympics would lift sales over the longer term have largely been dashed as growth slows and the outlook, though robust with a growing order book, remains subdued.
  • (9) The government has won a High Court order to prevent the partial lifting of a secrecy order affecting the proposed inquest into the death of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
  • (10) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
  • (11) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
  • (12) That is the bottom line.” Others described the need for a policy of containing Iran, especially with the lifting of economic sanctions.
  • (13) The Lib Dems have campaigned for a "mansion tax" on properties worth more than £2m, to pay for the poorest workers to be lifted out of the tax system.
  • (14) By simultaneously pushing the foot bar and pulling the hand bar, the monkey lifts a weight and triggers a microswitch which releases a banana-flavored food pellet into a well close to the animal's mouth.
  • (15) For the final three visible minutes, Lockett writhed, groaned, attempted to lift himself off the gurney and tried to speak, despite a doctor having declared him unconscious.
  • (16) The home fans were lifted by the sight of Billy Bonds, a legend in these parts, being presented with a lifetime achievement award before the kick-off and the former West Ham captain and manager probably would have enjoyed playing in Allardyce's combative midfield.
  • (17) Among the non-standard postures examined were: twisting while lifting or lowering, lifting and lowering from lying, sitting, kneeling, and squatting positions, and carrying loads under conditions of constricted ceiling heights.
  • (18) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
  • (19) "And let's be frank, we're not actually helping anyone by leaving the economic coast clear for others to provide the inward investment that often comes in from elsewhere and may represent tied aid or investment that won't help lift the poorest into employment," she said.
  • (20) People like Hugo forgot how truly miserable Paris had been for ordinary Parisians.” Out of a job and persona non grata in Paris, Haussmann spent six months in Italy to lift his spirits.