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Attending vs Taking - What's the difference?

attending | taking |

As adjectives the difference between attending and taking

is that attending is that while taking is alluring; attractive.

As nouns the difference between attending and taking

is that attending is (us) a physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care while taking is the act by which something is taken.

As verbs the difference between attending and taking

is that attending is while taking is .

attending

English

Adjective

(-)
  • That .
  • Serving on the staff of a teaching hospital as a doctor.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US) A physician on the staff of a hospital, especially the principal one that supervises a patient's care.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 11, author=, title=Doctor-Patient-Computer Relationships, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=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.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • taking

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • alluring; attractive.
  • * Fuller
  • subtile in making his temptations most taking
  • (obsolete) infectious; contagious
  • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Noun

  • The act by which something is taken.
  • * 2010 , Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements (page 75)
  • Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
  • (uncountable) A seizure of someone's goods or possessions.
  • (uncountable) An apprehension.
  • (countable) That which has been gained.
  • Count the shop's takings .

    Verb

    (head)
  • *
  • *:Athelstan Arundel walked home […], foaming and raging.He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
  • Derived terms

    * for the taking

    See also

    * takings

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