Attend vs Occasion - What's the difference?
attend | occasion |
(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)
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
* Bible, Rom. vii. 11
* Waller
The time when something happens.
*, chapter=13
, title= An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
Something which causes something else; a cause.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
(obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
Need; requirement, necessity.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
A special event or function.
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
* Spenser
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
In transitive terms the difference between attend and occasion
is that attend is (to be present at) To be present at (an event or place) in order to take part in some action or proceedings while occasion is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.As verbs the difference between attend and occasion
is that attend is alternative form of nodot=9 lang=en "to kindle" while occasion is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.As a noun occasion is
a favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.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) behearoccasion
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
- I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
- it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
citation
- after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
- when my occasions took me into France
- Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.
Verb
(en verb)- it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity