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attend | spend |

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) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • ("to kindle").
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) attenden, atenden, from (etyl) ; see tend and compare attempt.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To listen to (something or someone); to pay attention to; regard; heed.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskilful words of the passenger.
  • (archaic) To listen ((to), (unto)).
  • * , chapter=15
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To wait upon as a servant etc.; to accompany to assist (someone).
  • * (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • The fifth had charge sick persons to attend .
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Attends the emperor in his royal court.
  • * (1800-1859)
  • With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither.
  • (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:
  • I attended a one-room school next door to the palace and studied English, Xhosa, history and geography.
  • To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • What cares must then attend the toiling swain.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
  • , chapter=5, title= 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.
  • To wait for; to await; to remain, abide, or be in store for.
  • * (John Locke) (1632-1705)
  • the state that attends all men after this
  • * (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
  • Three days I promised to attend my doom.
    Synonyms
    * (listen to) behear

    spend

    English

    Verb

  • To pay out (money).
  • *
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To bestow; to employ; often with on'' or ''upon .
  • * (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
  • Iam never loath / To spend my judgment.
  • (label) To squander.
  • To exhaust, to wear out.
  • * (Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
  • their bodies spent with long labour and thirst
  • To consume, to use up (time).
  • * 1661 , , 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
  • *, chapter=13
  • , title= 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.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • To have an orgasm; to ejaculate sexually.
  • (label) To waste or wear away; to be consumed.
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • The sound spendeth and is dissipated in the open air.
  • To be diffused; to spread.
  • * (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
  • The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes.
  • (label) To break ground; to continue working.
  • Derived terms

    * spending money * spendthrift * spent force

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Amount spent (during a period), expenditure
  • I’m sorry, boss, but the advertising spend exceeded the budget again this month.
  • (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 ... }}
  • Discharged semen
  • Vaginal discharge