Attention vs Attendance - What's the difference?
attention | attendance |
(label) Mental focus.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1
, passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.}}
* , chapter=3
, title= * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, volume=100, issue=2, page=87, magazine=(American Scientist)
, title= (label) An action or remark expressing concern for or interest in someone or something, especially romantic interest.
* 1818 , (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), (Frankenstein); or, the Modern Prometheus , ch. 3,
* 1910 , (Stephen Leacock), " ,
A state of alertness in the standing position.
(senseid) The state of attending; presence.
The count or list of individuals present for an event.
The frequency with which one has been present for a regular activity or set of events.
As nouns the difference between attention and attendance
is that attention is mental focus while attendance is (the state of attending) The state of attending; presence.As an interjection attention
is {{cx|military|lang=en}} Used as a command to bring soldiers to the attention position.attention
English
(wikipedia attention)Noun
(en-noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.}}
The British Longitude Act Reconsidered, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
- She attended her sickbed; her watchful attentions triumphed over the malignity of the distemper.
- For some time past I have been the recipient of very marked attentions from a young lady.
Derived terms
() * at attention * attention deficit disorder * attention-grabbing * attention line * attention span * attention whore * attentional * centre of attention/center of attention * draw attention * flow of attention * pay attention * stand to attentionStatistics
*External links
* * ----attendance
English
Alternative forms
* attendanceEtymology
From (etyl) atendance, fromNoun
(en noun)- Attendance at the meeting is required.
- The class sat down so that the teacher could take attendance .
- John's attendance for the conventions was not good.