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English

Etymology

attend +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?nd??/
• Rhymes: -?nd??
• Hyphenation: at?tend?ing

Adjective

attending (not comparable)

1. That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
2. Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.

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Noun

attending (plural attendings)

1. (Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
   • 2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance? (page 45)

     All the new interns had heard of his operative speed, his finesse under the attending's glare, and his memorization of the current surgical literature.

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Verb

attending

1. present participle of attend

English

Etymology

From Middle English attencioun, borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionis, from attendere, past participle attentus (“to attend, give heed to”); see attend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t?n.??n/

Noun

attention (countable and uncountable, plural attentions)

1. (uncountable) Mental focus.
2. (countable) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
   • 1818, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, ch. 3,

     She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.

   • 1910, Stephen Leacock, "How to Avoid Getting Married," in Literary Lapses,

     For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.

3. (uncountable, military) A state of alertness in the standing position.

4. (uncountable, computing) A technique in neural networks that mimics cognitive attention, enhancing the important parts of the input data while giving less priority to the rest.

Synonyms

• (mental focus): heed, notice; see also Thesaurus:attention

Derived terms

Related terms

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Interjection

attention

1. (military) Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.
2. A call for people to be quiet/stop doing what they are presently doing and pay heed to what they are to be told or shown.

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Further reading

• attention in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• attention in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Antonetti, tentation

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin attentio, attentionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t??.sj??/

Noun

attention f (uncountable)

1. attention, (mental focus)
2. vigilance
3. attention (concern for or interest in)
4. consideration, thoughtfulness

Derived terms

• faire attention
• prêter attention

Related terms

• attendre
• attentif

Interjection

attention !

1. look out! watch out! careful!

Further reading

• “attention” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tentation