What's the difference between attendant and retinue?

Attendant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
  • (v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils.
  • (v. t.) Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir.
  • (n.) One who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor.
  • (n.) One who is present and takes part in the proceedings; as, an attendant at a meeting.
  • (n.) That which accompanies; a concomitant.
  • (n.) One who owes duty or service to, or depends on, another.

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.

Retinue


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of retainers who follow a prince or other distinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although Gary Neville, Hodgson’s former No2, will not be returning to the England fold the FA is keen to involve promising coaches and former internationals – Rio Ferdinand, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard have been mentioned – in the backroom retinue.
  • (2) On the way back from the showers, I almost walked into a small retinue of reporters.
  • (3) Players may have ever-expanding retinues – coaches, fitness trainers, sports psychologists, masseurs, agents and managers – but ultimately they have to do the job alone, out there in the gladiatorial setting of a packed tennis court with only their thoughts for company.
  • (4) The Conservative grandees were backed up by a retinue of more-or-less loyal historians.
  • (5) In fairness to Ms Williams, as we picture her hovering over our deathbeds with a retinue of homophobic cherubim, she does not conceal, as an evangelical activist, that her zeal has its origins somewhere far beyond the reach of reason and humankindness.
  • (6) The foreign minister thinks that the 2010 Smolensk air crash, in which President Lech Kaczyński and all his retinue perished, was a murder planned by President Putin.
  • (7) To possess one is, however, a mark of high status, just as many slaves or a large retinue of servants always has been.
  • (8) And that when the time has come for the celebs to have an audience with the grand old man, she has invariably stood alongside, meeting them not as the hired help but, acknowledged with all due deference for what she is, as a member of Mandela's innermost retinue.
  • (9) Rather than regard Kim Jong-un as a puppet, we might look at him as a youthful monarch surrounded by a retinue of close aides, advisors and gatekeepers that controls what briefing and policy papers he reads, who he talks to on the telephone and who is allowed access to him.
  • (10) "The majority of cardinals arrived with large retinues," Marcó said.
  • (11) He may even manage to hang on for a time by surrounding himself with a retinue of loyalists and retreads, among them the former Tory spin doctor turned Labour MP Shaun Woodward.
  • (12) He did lots of experimental student drama, and in 1988 he and a friend took a show - Grace, a poignant comedy about a diva's retinue - to the Edinburgh Festival.
  • (13) Instead they got a small island to themselves in the heart of the Canadian wilderness, leaving their retinue and protection officers behind and having just a chef, nesting bald eagles and the Canadian national bird, the loon, for company.
  • (14) But the combination of the eccentric courts and their retinues, with an insatiable and still more intrusive media, has made that role ever more difficult to perform.
  • (15) Nkurunziza's Haleluya retinue stays in a luxury hotel that he had built close to the stadium.
  • (16) A nursemaid - albeit with a whole retinue of staff to cover for the thrice-weekly lunch dates - to a husband who had long ceased to recognise her, and a campaigner on Alzheimer’s disease.
  • (17) In the novel the devil and his retinue (which includes a wall-eyed loon and a talking cat) manipulate “the Master”, a writer, and Margarita, his muse.
  • (18) The retinue channels what he decides to communicate through written documents, public speeches and interactions with low-level officials.
  • (19) "Saying that she is not here to preach is bullshit," said one of the small retinue of Berlin-based journalists who follow her every move.
  • (20) The plumose papillae and their retinue of plume cells are unique morphological structures that may be important in mastication and deglutition of food.

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