Assisted vs Attend - What's the difference?
assisted | attend |
(assist)
(label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
(label) To attend
* 1967 , The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church , revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:
To help.
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(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
A helpful action or an act of giving.
(sports) A statistic used in different sports to quantify the act of helping another player score points or goals; in baseball, an assist is defensive, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
(archaic) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
(archaic) To listen ((to), (unto)).
* , chapter=15
, title= To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (1800-1859)
(senseid)To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings.
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, passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
* 1994 , (Nelson Mandela), (Long Walk to Freedom) , Abacus 2010, p. 20:
To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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, chapter=5, title= To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
As verbs the difference between assisted and attend
is that assisted is (assist) while attend is ("to kindle") or attend can be (archaic|transitive) to listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.assisted
English
Verb
(head)assist
English
Verb
(en verb)- A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
- To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
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Derived terms
* assister * assistiveNoun
(en noun)- The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
- He had two assists in the game.
Derived terms
* assistful * assistlessAnagrams
* ----attend
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) attenden, atenden, from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) attenden, atenden, from (etyl) ; see tend and compare attempt.Verb
(en verb)- The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskilful words of the passenger.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
- The fifth had charge sick persons to attend .
- Attends the emperor in his royal court.
- With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.
- I attended a one-room school next door to the palace and studied English, Xhosa, history and geography.
- What cares must then attend the toiling swain.
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
- the state that attends all men after this
- Three days I promised to attend my doom.