What's the difference between await and tend?

Await


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To watch for; to look out for.
  • (v. t.) To wait on, serve, or attend.
  • (v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.
  • (v. t.) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
  • (v. i.) To watch.
  • (v. i.) To wait (on or upon).
  • (v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.
  • (n.) A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A clearer understanding of these relationships and their application to clinical management await further study.
  • (2) Seven children have been hospitalised for a week and more than 700 people are awaiting medical test results.
  • (3) The incidence of recurrent haemorrhage during the period awaiting surgery was 13.7%.
  • (4) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
  • (5) But sanctions and mismanagement took their toll, and the scale of the long-awaited economic catharsis won’t be grand,” he says.
  • (6) Diego Garcia guards its secrets even as the truth on CIA torture emerges Read more The long-awaited decision – expected to cause enormous disappointment – follows more than 40 years of campaigning, court cases and calls for the UK to right a wrong committed by Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
  • (7) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
  • (8) These case histories, and very substantial background proof of efficacy and safety, justify treating with CoQ10 patients in failure awaiting transplantation.
  • (9) The method concerns identifying donor-recipient tissue compatibility by use of the two-way mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR), in which reacting cells from patients awaiting transplants are primed with phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) and stored.
  • (10) Genital irritation caused urinary symptoms with no clinical evidence of infection, and it is advised that antibiotic treatment should await urine culture.
  • (11) While awaiting renal transplantation, patients with end-stage renal failure frequently have to spend a period of time on dialysis.
  • (12) The BBC Trust met on Thursday to discuss Thompson's long-awaited DQF cost-cutting proposals .
  • (13) Whether these two effects are causally related awaits future study.
  • (14) It comes as Chilcot continues to avoid setting a final deadline for the publication of his long-awaited report into the war.
  • (15) A t the end of April two chairs in Westminster will await the arrival of Tony Hall , incoming director general of the BBC, and Chris Patten, chairman of the corporation's trust.
  • (16) Pardew apologised for his behaviour on Saturday night and the FA is awaiting the referee's report before deciding on action against the 52-year-old, who has been fined £100,000 by Newcastle and severely reprimanded by the club .
  • (17) But minutes after the final whistle, 76% of respondents to a Corriere della Sport online poll were blaming Lippi and in the post-match press conference the man himself was quick to take the blame, appearing to be anxiously awaiting the moment he can disappear quietly from the scene to be replaced by the Fiorentina manager, Cesare Prandelli, a switch decided with little fuss and no media debate just before the World Cup.
  • (18) These results indicate that at 24 h postmortem the extra fluid released from PSE pork already has been lost from the myofilament lattice and is awaiting release from compartments downstream such as interfiber and interfascicular spaces.
  • (19) In 2019, the long-awaited Crossrail project is due to open, but up until a few weeks ago, seven of the 38 stations on the route were set to remain inaccessible.
  • (20) The Guardian has asked for clarification of the retailer's position and is awaiting a response.

Tend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
  • (v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
  • (v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
  • (v. i.) To await; to expect.
  • (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
  • (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
  • (5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
  • (7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
  • (8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
  • (9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
  • (10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
  • (11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
  • (12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
  • (13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
  • (14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
  • (15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
  • (16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
  • (17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
  • (18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
  • (19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
  • (20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.