different between attending vs visiting

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.

Translations

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.

Translations

Verb

attending

1. present participle of attend

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t??/

Verb

visiting

1. present participle of visit

Noun

visiting (plural visitings)

1. The act of someone or something that visits.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose […]

   • 2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)

     Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."