Enroll vs Attend - What's the difference?
enroll | attend |
To enter (a name, etc.) in a register, roll or list
* Prescott
* Milton
To enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of
To enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something)
(obsolete) To envelop; to enwrap.
(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)
In transitive terms the difference between enroll and attend
is that enroll is to enlist (someone) or make (someone) a member of while attend is (to be present at) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings.In intransitive terms the difference between enroll and attend
is that enroll is to enlist oneself (in something) or become a member (of something while attend is (to turn one's consideration to, deal with) To turn one's consideration ({{term|to}}); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after.enroll
English
Alternative forms
* enrol (UK) (CA)Verb
(en verb)- All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves.
- An unwritten law of common right, so engraven in the hearts of our ancestors, and by them so constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling .
- They were eager to enroll new recruits.
- Have you enrolled in classes yet for this term?
- (Spenser)
Synonyms
* (enter in a register) list, note, note down, record, register * (enlist) enlist, sign up, subscribe * (become a member) enlist, join, join up, sign up, subscribe * (join a class) add, register forDerived terms
* enrollee * enroller * enrollmentattend
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.