Superintended vs Superintendent - What's the difference?
superintended | superintendent |
(superintend)
To oversee the work of others; to supervise.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.
To administer the affairs of something or someone.
* Episode 12, The Cyclops
*:A posse of Dublin Metropolitan police superintended by the Chief Commissioner in person maintained order in the vast throng for whom the York street brass and reed band whiled away the intervening time by admirably rendering on their blackdraped instruments the matchless melody endeared to us from the cradle by Speranza's plaintive muse.
A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
A police rank used in Commonwealth countries, ranking above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
*{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
, title=Well Tackled!
, chapter=7 The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. Often abbreviated "super".
(chiefly, US) A janitor.
Overseeing; superintending.
As a verb superintended
is past tense of superintend.As a noun superintendent is
a person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.As an adjective superintendent is
overseeing; superintending.superintended
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(head)superintend
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Verb
(en verb)superintendent
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(wikipedia superintendent) (en noun)citation, passage=“No, don't,” replied the superintendent ; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”}}