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preattend

verb

Etymology

From pre- + attend.

  1. derived from attendō
  2. derived from atendre — “to await, wait for; to expect; to intend”
  3. inherited from attenden
  4. prefixed as preattend — “pre + attend”

Definitions

  1. To attend ahead of time

    To attend ahead of time; to pay attention to or consider in advance.

    • Preattending is a preliminary step in learning; it involves looking at the materials, listening, and sitting quietly during instruction.
    • The reason for this approach, in terms of the argument presented in this chapter, is that only the farmers can fully preattend to the effects of a recommendation on...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preattend. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA