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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others;
[syn: attention, attending]

2. the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.);
[syn: attendance, attending]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Attend \At*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attended; p. pr. & vb. n. Attending.] [OE. atenden, OF. atendre, F. attendre, to expect, to wait, fr. L. attendre to stretch, (sc. animum), to apply the mind to; ad + tendere to stretch. See Tend.] 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] 2. To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] Attends the emperor in his royal court. --Shak. [1913 Webster] With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 4. To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to; as, a measure attended with ill effects. [1913 Webster] What cares must then attend the toiling swain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. To be present at; as, to attend church, school, a concert, a business meeting. [1913 Webster] 6. To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The state that attends all men after this. --Locke. [1913 Webster] Three days I promised to attend my doom. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Syn: To Attend, Mind, Regard, Heed, Notice. Usage: Attend is generic, the rest are specific terms. To mind is to attend so that it may not be forgotten; to regard is to look on a thing as of importance; to heed is to attend to a thing from a principle of caution; to notice is to think on that which strikes the senses. --Crabb. See Accompany. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

attending n 1: the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others [syn: attention, attending] [ant: inattention] 2: the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) [syn: attendance, attending] [ant: nonattendance]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "attending": accessory, accompanying, ancillary, associated, attendant, coincident, collateral, combined, concomitant, concurrent, conjoint, correlative, coupled, fellow, helping, incident, joined, joint, menial, ministering, mutual, paired, parallel, satellite, servile, serving, servitorial, simultaneous, twin, waiting