What's the difference between attendant and verger?

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.

Verger


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
  • (n.) An attendant upon a dignitary, as on a bishop, a dean, a justice, etc.
  • (n.) The official who takes care of the interior of a church building.
  • (n.) A garden or orchard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This description of the group was endorsed Dr Philippe Verger, a WHO official and secretary of the UN panel on glyphosate.
  • (2) The kinetic results presented in the form of double reciprocal plots of initial velocity against bulk PC or interfacial PC concentration were linear according to the Verger et al.
  • (3) Verger told the Guardian: “ILSI is not an independent body.
  • (4) In comparison to the previous procedure reported by Verger, R., de Hass, G.H., Sarda, L and Desnuelle, P. (1969) Biochim.
  • (5) Finally the isoenzymes were separated on CM-cellulose as in the Verger procedure, but under slightly modified conditions.
  • (6) kinetic model (Verger, R., Mieras, M. C. E., and de Haas, G. H. (1973) J. Biol.
  • (7) We previously reported that the inhibition of pancreatic and Rhizopus delemar lipases by proteins is due to the protein associated with lipid and is not caused by direct protein-enzyme interaction in the aqueous phase [Gargouri, Y., Piéroni, G., Rivière, C., Sugihara, A., Sarda, L., & Verger, R. (1985) J. Biol.
  • (8) Several 2-acylaminophospholipid analogues have been demonstrated to behave as potent competitive inhibitors of porcine pancreatic phospholipase A2 (De Haas, G.H., Dijkman, R., Ransac, S. and Verger, R. (1990) Biochim.
  • (9) Verger said: “Every year we evaluate 10-30 compounds, and I can tell you that a lot of them are more dangerous and potent than glyphosate.
  • (10) A. Virtanen, R. Verger, and P. K. J. Kinnunen (1987) Biochim.
  • (11) (Gargouri, Y., Moreau, H., Piéroni, G. and Verger, R. (1988) J. Biol.