(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.
Skipper
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, skips.
(n.) A young, thoughtless person.
(n.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
(n.) The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
(n.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
(n.) A ship boy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brazil skipper Thiago Silva must sit this one out on the naughty step after picking up a silly booking - his second of the tournament - for obstructing Colombia goalkeeper David Ospina as he attempted to take a kick.
(2) In electrophysiological experiments intracellular microelectrode recordings of responses to illumination are made from single retinular cells of the skipper, Epargyreus clarus, an animal that lacks iris pigment.
(3) You always wonder how the AL skipper is going to fare under National League rules, and as far as I can tell, Farrell has never been a part of a NL team as a player or as a coach or manager.
(4) McKenzie’s concerns about the portrayal of a dying reef are shared by Claire Zwick, a former GBRMPA boat skipper and now co-owner of Coral Sea Dreaming in Cairns.
(5) Kyle Lohse has been insane this season, yet some were surprised when Cards skipper Mike Matheny picked him to start the wild-card game against the Braves.
(6) Many butterfly names are inaccurate – the Essex skipper, for instance, is found far beyond that county – and some are becoming more so.
(7) A skipper has no say in selection, he has no say in tactics, he has no say in substitutions.
(8) Fishing boat skipper Steve Yeandle was in no doubt.
(9) Costa Rican Carlos Hernandez whipped in a pinpoint free-kick from the left for skipper Durante to shade home on the far post.
(10) The ball was crossed from the left and the Liverpool skipper looped it into the top right-hand corner with a fine header from the edge of the six-yard box.
(11) Clean break England's new skipper's line on chastity: 2007 – Rio denies organising the £4k-per-head Man United Christmas party, which was set up, a club insider told the press, "for players only: strictly no wives or girlfriends.
(12) The first (Skipper) assumes that sensitive and resistant populations are present at the beginning of treatment.
(13) Still, it’s an impressive coup for the league to ensure their part of the deal and the stability it brings – whatever the multi-platform future, the large-scale TV deal is still one of the key unsentimental litmus tests for how a league is translating, and while the network executives, particularly ESPN’s John Skipper, acknowledged that “it’s a future buy.
(14) ESPN chief executive John Skipper said in a memo to the sports network’s staff members that Smith’s comments don’t reflect the company’s viewpoint or values.
(15) Skipper admitted he does not want a repeat of last time when they were salami-sliced by 15%, along with all the other – much better financed, Northern Ballet point out – ballet and opera companies.
(16) I have known Daniel Sturridge a long time but the skipper has been great with us,” said Delph, who was one of four new faces called up last week.
(17) Below is Tate Hill Sands, where the ship carrying Dracula ran aground, its crew missing, its dead skipper lashed to the wheel.
(18) Separately, a Gambian skipper suspected of smuggling 116 African migrants was detained by Italian police.
(19) Photograph: Alamy There are whales and dolphins just off the coast, and it is possible to avoid the more commercial whale-watching trips; I sailed with skipper João Vieira on the Ilhéu , an elegant 1946 ketch.
(20) Based on response to a 124-item food checklist, subjects' usual breakfast habits were classified into one of six discrete categories: 1) Skipper, 2) Ready-to-Eat (RTE) cereal with Fiber, 3) Traditional Breakfast, 4) Chips or Sweets, 5) Other RTE, or 6) Mixed Breakfasts.