| attend | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. attend, go to | be present at (meetings, church services, university), etc..; "She attends class regularly"; "I rarely attend services at my church"; "did you go to the meeting?" |
| ~ church service, church | a service conducted in a house of worship.; "don't be late for church" |
| ~ sit in | attend as a visitor.; "Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class?" |
| ~ worship | attend religious services.; "They worship in the traditional manner" |
| ~ be | occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere.; "Where is my umbrella?"; "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" |
| v. (social) | 2. attend, look, see, take care | take charge of or deal with.; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business" |
| ~ minister | attend to the wants and needs of others.; "I have to minister to my mother all the time" |
| ~ tend | have care of or look after.; "She tends to the children" |
| ~ give care, care | provide care for.; "The nurse was caring for the wounded" |
| v. (stative) | 3. attend | to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result.; "Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation" |
| ~ accompany, attach to, come with, go with | be present or associated with an event or entity.; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" |
| v. (social) | 4. assist, attend, attend to, serve, wait on | work for or be a servant to.; "May I serve you?"; "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair"; "Can you wait on our table, please?"; "Is a salesperson assisting you?"; "The minister served the King for many years" |
| ~ valet | serve as a personal attendant to. |
| ~ aid, assist, help | give help or assistance; be of service.; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house" |
| ~ fag | act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools. |
| ~ serve | devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas.; "She served the art of music"; "He served the church"; "serve the country" |
| v. (perception) | 5. advert, attend, give ear, hang, pay heed | give heed (to).; "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said" |
| ~ listen | hear with intention.; "Listen to the sound of this cello" |
| ~ fixate | pay attention to exclusively and obsessively.; "The media are fixating on Princess Diana's death" |
| turn out | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. prove, turn out, turn up | be shown or be found to be.; "She proved to be right"; "The medicine turned out to save her life"; "She turned up HIV positive" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ ensue, result | issue or terminate (in a specified way, state, etc.); end.; "result in tragedy" |
| v. (stative) | 2. turn out | prove to be in the result or end.; "It turns out that he was right" |
| ~ come about, hap, happen, occur, take place, go on, fall out, pass off, pass | come to pass.; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important" |
| v. (creation) | 3. turn out | produce quickly or regularly, usually with machinery.; "This factory turns out saws" |
| ~ produce, create, make | create or manufacture a man-made product.; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" |
| v. (stative) | 4. come out, turn out | result or end.; "How will the game turn out?" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" |
| ~ eventuate | come out in the end. |
| ~ work out | happen in a certain way, leading to, producing, or resulting in a certain outcome, often well.; "Things worked out in an interesting way"; "Not everything worked out in the end and we were disappointed" |
| v. (change) | 5. turn out | come, usually in answer to an invitation or summons.; "How many people turned out that evening?" |
| ~ appear | come into sight or view.; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon" |
| v. (creation) | 6. bear, turn out | bring forth,.; "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"; "The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers" |
| ~ spin off | produce as a consequence of something larger. |
| ~ create, make | make or cause to be or to become.; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" |
| ~ seed | bear seeds. |
| ~ crop | yield crops.; "This land crops well" |
| ~ overbear | bear too much. |
| ~ fruit | bear fruit.; "the trees fruited early this year" |
| v. (contact) | 7. boot out, chuck out, eject, exclude, turf out, turn out | put out or expel from a place.; "The unruly student was excluded from the game" |
| ~ evict, force out | expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process.; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months" |
| ~ evict | expel or eject without recourse to legal process.; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m." |
| ~ show the door | ask to leave.; "I was shown the door when I asked for a raise" |
| ~ bounce | eject from the premises.; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club" |
| ~ exorcise, exorcize | expel through adjuration or prayers.; "exorcise evil spirits" |
| ~ expel, kick out, throw out | force to leave or move out.; "He was expelled from his native country" |
| v. (social) | 8. turn out | come and gather for a public event.; "Hundreds of thousands turned out for the anti-war rally in New York" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| v. (possession) | 9. turn out | outfit or equip, as with accessories.; "The actors were turned out lavishly" |
| ~ equip, fit out, outfit, fit | provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.; "The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities" |
| v. (motion) | 10. rotate, splay, spread out, turn out | turn outward.; "These birds can splay out their toes"; "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees" |
| ~ turn | change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense.; "Turn towards me"; "The mugger turned and fled before I could see his face"; "She turned from herself and learned to listen to others' needs" |
| v. (contact) | 11. cut, switch off, turn off, turn out | cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights" |
| ~ kill | cause to cease operating.; "kill the engine" |
| ~ flip, switch, throw | cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation.; "switch on the light"; "throw the lever" |
| v. (body) | 12. arise, get up, rise, turn out, uprise | get up and out of bed.; "I get up at 7 A.M. every day"; "They rose early"; "He uprose at night" |
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