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Vinony

attending

adjective

  1. paying close attention to
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noun

  1. supervisory hospital presence (e.g. attending physician)
  2. pay close attention to
  3. active participation in a group or at a location
L316546 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /əˈtɛndɪŋ/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English attend English -ing English attending From attend + -ing.

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

    “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.”

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English attend English -ing English attending From attend + -ing.

  1. A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.

    “She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.”

    “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.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English attend English -ing English attending From attend + -ing.

  1. present participle and gerund of attend