different between attendee vs delegate

English

Etymology

attend +? -ee

Noun

attendee (plural attendees)

1. A person who is in attendance or in the audience of an event.
   • 2000, Russian Government, Federal Constitutional Law ?3 dated December 25, 2000

     During the official performance of the National Anthem of the Russian Federation all attendees are supposed to stand and men take their hats off.
2. A visitor or participant of an event.
   • 2002, Sam Williams, Free as in Freedom, chapter 11

     O'Reilly, the summit host, remembers a particularly insightful comment from Torvalds, a summit attendee.

3. (uncommon) A person who is attended.

Synonyms

• (participant in an event): audience (member), participant
• (person in attendance): attender, audience (member)

Attender was originally the only word for a person attending. As with most nouns formed from verbs, as payer, trainer, employer, it was the receiver of action that was formed with -ee, as with payee, trainee, employee. In the 1980s with the advent of spell-checkers, the word attender was erroneously flagged as misspelled and attendee was its replacement. Since then attender is no longer in popular usage.

Related terms

• attendant

Translations

References

Anagrams

• edentate

English

Etymology

From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin d?l?g?tus.

Pronunciation

Noun

• enPR: d?l??-g?t, IPA^(key): /?d?l???t/

Verb

• enPR: d?l??-g?t', IPA^(key): /?d?l???e?t/

Noun

delegate (plural delegates)

1. a person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy
2. a representative at a conference, etc.
3. (US) an appointed representative in some legislative bodies
4. (computing) a type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:deputy

Hypernyms

Derived terms

• (computing): delegate-type

Related terms

• (computing): function pointer

Translations

Verb

delegate (third-person singular simple present delegates, present participle delegating, simple past and past participle delegated)

1. to authorize someone to be a delegate
2. to commit a task to someone, especially a subordinate
3. (computing, Internet) (of a subdomain) to give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own

Translations

Italian

Adjective

delegate

1. feminine plural of delegato

Noun

delegate f

1. plural of delegata

Verb

delegate

1. second-person plural present indicative of delegare
2. second-person plural imperative of delegare
3. feminine plural of delegato

Latin

Verb

d?l?g?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of d?l?g?