ATTENDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attending mean? 

• ATTENDING (noun)
  The noun ATTENDING has 2 senses:

1. the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

2. the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)

  Familiarity information: ATTENDING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTENDING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

attending; attention

Hypernyms ("attending" is a kind of...):

basic cognitive process (cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attending"):

attentiveness; heed; paying attention; regard (paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people))

clock-watching (paying excessive attention to the clock (in anticipation of stopping work))

ear (attention to what is said)

eye (attention to what is seen)

notice; observance; observation (the act of noticing or paying attention)

notice (polite or favorable attention)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

attendance; attending

Hypernyms ("attending" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "attending"):

appearance; appearing; coming into court (formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action)

presence (the act of being present)

turnout (attendance for a particular event or purpose (as to vote in an election))

 Context examples 

Or why had not she rather gone to her own room, as she had felt to be safest, instead of attending the rehearsal at all?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I gazed entranced, till the boat ran into the wind and the flapping sail warned me I was not attending to my duties.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As it was, I didn't know what to believe, and so got out of my difficulty by attending to something else.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Look into the possibility of attending an online course or joining a book club.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Good God!” cried Emma, not attending to her.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mr Elliot was attending his two cousins and Mrs Clay.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

It seems but yesterday that I had the honour of attending you in the measles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I forget she knows nothing of the character of that woman, or of the circumstances attending my infernal union with her.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Elizabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I expect my surveyor from Brockham with his report in the morning; and afterwards I cannot in decency fail attending the club.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)