Word Finder - attend

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To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.

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To listen (to, unto).

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To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after.

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Secretaries attend to correspondence.

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To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).

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Servants attend the king day and night.

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To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings; to regularly go to (an event or place).

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Children must attend primary school.

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To go to (a place) for some purpose (with at).

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To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.

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a measure attended with ill effects

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To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.

My king, I must attend to the preparations.

My guard will attend me into the city.

You want to attend my lecture?

I.ve got some business to attend to with the other Immortals.

He arrogated to himself the privileges of royalty, made servants attend him upon their knees, compelled bishops to tie his shoelatchets and dukes to hold the basin while he washed his hands, and considered it condescension when he allowed ambassadors to kiss his fingers; he paid little heed to their sacrosanct character, and himself laid violent hands on a papal nuncio.

Julie will attend college full time in the coming session.

She has other things to do, and no time to attend to me.

Again she asked he attend, if possible.

But she had to force herself to attend, for what he was saying did not interest her at all.

Those who were out-and-out Episcopalians did not attend at all.

Riley's comments were simple but moving and made Dean won­der if he were the eulogized party, who would speak so kindly of him—or, for that matter, even attend the memorial.

He'll attend you at the feast this evening.

He no longer pressed him to attend public functions.

But first, there's business I need attend to.

Your own mother, and no time to attend to her child?

Yet the thought of the alleged good guys losing the ultimate war because she didn't attend a stupid meeting didn't sit well with her.

A law enacted in 1908 requires that children between eight and fifteen years of age shall attend school twenty-four weeks each year, provided the public school in their district is in session that length of time.

In a large exchange a number of operators are necessary to attend to calls.

Being close enough so that she could attend college while living at home had been their rationalization, but she suspected they were also trying to stimulate her social life.

I had business to attend to.

I would be honored if you chose to attend.

I have matters to attend to.

Canaan (Palestine and the south Phoenician coast land) and Amor (Lebanon district and beyond) were under the constant supervision of Egypt, and Egyptian officials journeyed round to collect tribute, to attend to complaints, and to assure themselves of the allegiance of the vassals.

The foreign deputies were invited to attend, only to assist by their advice in the settlement of a controversy which concerned the Netherland church alone, and which the Netherland church alone could decide.

When he went to Frankfort he was still under the influence of the extreme Prussian Conservatives, men like the Gerlachs, who regarded the maintenance of the principle of the form of bitter personal hostility; in 1863 the ministers refused any longer to attend the sittings, and Bismarck challenged Virchow, one of his strongest opponents, to a duel, which, however, did not take place.

Every parish must have an annual parish meeting, which all local government electors for the parish are entitled to attend.

Cynthia would attend the New Jersey wedding—thank God for Visa—while Fred and Dean would hold down Bird Song.

On the 9th of January 1405 he found time to attend a court at Higham Ferrers and be admitted to a burgage there.

It was an additional misfortune for Alexius that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as he was growing up from boyhood to manhood.

To encourage the instruction of children who by reason of distance cannot attend a government or government-aided school, grants-in-aid are made for each pupil attending farm schools.

He was able, however, to attend the funeral of Queen Victoria on the 2nd of February 1901, and preached a remarkable sermon before the king and the German emperor on the following day.

Interview shortlisted applicants may be invited to attend an interview.

Mechanics and tradesmen who come in person to the forest on no other errand, are sure to attend the wood auction, and even pay a high price for the privilege of gleaning after the woodchopper.

A parent must attend the auditions with you.

Apparently this town was cluttered with them and my great-aunt and her husband had a thankless life mission to attend to the trash.

Dean sent two dress shirts with neckties and a card of congratula­tions but did not attend the ceremony.

Your cousins attend the Day School two blocks down.

In spite of this, however, and of the skill with which he presided over the debates, the conference came to nothing owing to the refusal of the king of Prussia to attend.

In 1918 he went to England with the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, to attend the Imperial Conference.

Certain regularities attend the corresponding property of the melting-point.

Notable differences attend the neutralization of the chromophoric and auxochromic groups.

But if we attend to the circumstances under which this theme arises, its purport and development become deep and natural.

Representatives are sent from each inferior to each superior meeting, but they have no precedence over others, and all Friends may attend any meeting and take part in any of which they are members.

Up to this time Wesley says he had no notion of inward holiness, but went on "habitually and for the most part very contentedly in some or other known sin, indeed with some intermission and short struggles especially before and after Holy Communion," which he was obliged to attend three times a year.

According to Dr Jakob Jakobsen, the name means the voe (waa) of the skollas, or booths, occupied by the men who came to attend the meeting of the ling, or open-air law court, which assembled in former days on an island in the Loch of Tingwall (hence its name), about 3 m.

But Sunday Schools were first adopted by Charles to meet the case of young people in service who could not attend during the week, and even in that form much opposition was shown to them because teaching was thought to be a form of Sabbath breaking.

But whenever any measure of importance was to be decided a meeting was called of het publiek, that is, of all who chose to attend, to sanction or reject it.

In 1663 he invaded royal Hungary, with the intention of uniting all the Magyars against the emperor, but, the Magyars steadily refusing to attend any diet summoned under Turkish influence, his plan fell through, and his only notable military success was the capture of the fortress of Ersekujvar (Neuhausel).

In considering the relative brightnesses of the different spectra, it is therefore sufficient to attend merely to the principal directions, provided that the whole deviation be not so great that its cosine differs considerably from unity.

There he took another wife, as the Jewess allotted him by Vespasian after the fall of Caesarea had forsaken him, and returned to attend Titus and to act as intermediary between him and the Jews who still held Jerusalem.