attend

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To care for (someone requiring attention); specifically, of a doctor, nurse, etc.: to provide professional care to (someone).

   “The fift [beadsman] had charge ſick perſons to attend, / And comfort thoſe, in point of death vvhich lay; […]”

2. fiil To wait on (someone or their instructions) as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (specifically of a gentleman-in-waiting or lady-in-waiting to a member of royalty), to accompany (someone) in order to assist or wait upon them; to escort.

   “Servants attend the king day and night.”

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

   “Children must attend primary school.”

4. fiil To take action with respect to (someone, or something such as a concern, problem, or task); to deal with, to handle.
5. fiil Of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent to or present with (someone or something); to accompany.

   “a measure attended with ill effects”

6. fiil To look after (someone or something); to tend.

   “They [plate and jewels] are in a Trunke / Attended by my men: I vvill make bold / To ſend them to you, onely for this night: […]”

7. fiil Followed by to: to look after someone or something.

   “Valets attend to their employers’ wardrobes.”

8. fiil To be ready to wait upon someone or their instructions as an attendant, servant, etc.; also (followed by on or upon), to accompany someone in order to assist or wait upon them.

   “[H]e entertained a gard of three thovvſand about him, beſides a band of young gentlemen of the order of knightes that attended alvvayes upon his perſone ready at commaundement, vvhom he called the garde againſt the Senate.”

9. fiil Followed by at: to go to and be present at a place for some purpose; also (obsolete), followed by on: to be present at and take part in an event.

   “He died (according to Hermippas) at Piſa, embracing his ſon, victor in the Olympick games, of the cæſtus, the vveakneſſe of his age overcome vvith exceſſe of joy; all vvho vvere preſent at the great aſſembly attended on his funeralls, […]”

10. fiil Followed by to: to take action with respect to someone or something; to deal with.

    “Secretaries attend to correspondence.”

11. fiil Followed by on or upon: of a (chiefly immaterial) thing: to be consequent on or present with.

    “But I aſſeſt the gods, your full conſent, / Gaue vvings to my propenſion, and cut off / All feares attending on ſo dire a proiect, […]”

12. fiil To listen to (something or someone).

    “Pyrocles minde was all thius while so fixed upon another devotion, that he no more attentively marked his friends discourse, then […] the diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth attend the unskilful words of a passinger: […]”

13. fiil To give consideration to (someone or something); to heed, to pay attention, to regard.

    “If thou attendeſt thy Philosophy, I am glad of it, for that in truth is to be in health. VVithout it the minde is ſicke, and the bodie alſo notvvithſtanding it be ſtrong and able: for it is no othervviſe healthie then as a man might ſay, the bodie of one that is madde and troubled vvith the frenſie.”

14. fiil Often followed by to, upon, or with: to give consideration; to pay attention.

    “Wherfore ye muſt needs be ſubiect [to rulers], not onely for wrath, but alſo for conſcience ſake. For, for this cauſe pay you tribute alſo: for they are Gods ministers, attending continually vpon this very thing.”

15. fiil Followed by to or unto: to listen.

    “Thoſe Vnckles vvhich you vvant, vvere dangerous, / Your Grace attended to their ſugred vvords, / But lookt not on the poiſon of their hearts: […]”

16. fiil To look out or wait for (someone, or something such as a decision or event); to await.

    “Ægyptian ingenuity vvas more unſatisfied, contriving their bodies in ſvveet conſiſtences, to attend the return of their ſouls. But all vvas vanity, feeding the vvinde, and folly.”

17. fiil To expect or look forward to (someone or something).

    “Yet ſatteſt thou an idle looker on, / And glad attendeſt vvhich ſide vvonne or loſt: […]”

18. fiil Of a thing: to be in store or lie in wait for (someone or something); to await.

    “To him, I ſay, vvho hath a proſpect of the different State of perfect Happineſs or Miſery that attends all Men after this Life, depending on their Behaviour here, the meaſures of Good and Evil, that govern his choice, are mightily changed.”

19. fiil To remain and wait; to abide.

    “[…] God knocketh at the doore of our hearts, but vvorketh nothing in our hearts, till vve firſt of our ſelues aſſent to let him in. He attendeth till vve open him the gates, and then he vvith his heauenly gifts vvill enter in; […]”

20. fiil Followed by for: to expect or look forward.