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Attending
//əˈtɛndɪŋ// adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant. not-comparable
- 2 Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor. not-comparable
- 3 Attendant, concomitant. not-comparable
"Because so much of the character's self-loathing is manifested around his sexuality — his need to degrade the women with whom he identifies, the almost compulsive need to seduce a straight male actor, his malignant neglect of his lover — the casting of a woman in the part doubles, or even quadruples the attending implications and ironies."
Adjective
- 1 giving practical help to wordnet
Noun
- 1 A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care. Canada, US
"She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General."
- 2 the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) wordnet
- 3 the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of attend form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From attend + -ing.
Etymology 2
From attend + -ing.
Etymology 3
From attend + -ing.
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