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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
attending en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From attend + -ing.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) That attend or attends; that is or are in attendance; attendant.
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(not-comparable) Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
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(not-comparable) 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.
1986 February 1, Michael Bronski, “Mock Homage to Fassbinder's Life & Films”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 6:
Deriveds
unattending · attendingly · nonattending
Translations (5)
es asistente (that attend(s), attendant) · pt presencia (that attend(s), attendant) · pt assistir (serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor) · grc ἀκόλουθος (that attend(s), attendant) · pt participa (that attend(s), attendant)
attending en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From attend + -ing.
Meanings
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(Canada, US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
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.
2002, Harry Lee Kraus, Could I Have This Dance?, page 45:All too often when taking a history, residents and attendings in a hurry will simply use the cut-and-paste function to save time and bypass asking potentially important questions that have been asked before.
2009 March 11, “Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships”, in New York Times:She's an attending in gastroenterology at Mass General.
Forms
Coordinates
resident doctor · resident
Hypernyms
physician · person · doctor
Translations (3)
id DPJP (physician on the staff of a hospital) · de Oberarzt (physician on the staff of a hospital) · id dokter penanggung jawab pelayanan (physician on the staff of a hospital)
wikidata: Q460628
attending en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
From attend + -ing.
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of attend