Attend vs Spend - What's the difference?
attend | spend |
(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.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, 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)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
* (John Locke) (1632-1705)
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To pay out (money).
*
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, title= To bestow; to employ; often with on'' or ''upon .
* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
(label) To squander.
To exhaust, to wear out.
* (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
To consume, to use up (time).
* 1661 , ,
*, chapter=13
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, title= To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
(label) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
To be diffused; to spread.
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
(label) To break ground; to continue working.
Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
(pluralized) expenditures; money or pocket money.
* {{quote-news
, date = 2011-02-01
, first = Ami
, last = Sedghi
, title = Record breaking January transfers: find the spends by club
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/01/january-transfer-spend-record-high-torres
, passage = Total January spends by year
}}
* {{quote-web
, year = 2011
, title = Council spending over £500
, site = Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council
, url = http://www.rochdale.gov.uk/business_and_employment/tenders_and_contracts/council_spending_over_£500.aspx
, accessdate = 2012-01-26
, passage = The spends have been made by our strategic partners ...
}}
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As verbs the difference between attend and spend
is that attend is ("to kindle") or attend can be (archaic|transitive) to listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed while spend is to pay out (money).As a noun spend is
amount spent (during a period), expenditure.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.
Synonyms
* (listen to) behearspend
English
Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}
No hiding place, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
- Iam never loath / To spend my judgment.
- their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
- The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
- The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
Derived terms
* spending money * spendthrift * spent forceNoun
(en noun)- I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.