Attendance vs Visit - What's the difference?
attendance | visit |
(senseid) The state of attending; presence.
The count or list of individuals present for an event.
The frequency with which one has been present for a regular activity or set of events.
Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
* Bible, (w) i. 68
* 1611 , Bible , Authorized (King James) Version, (w) I.6:
To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
(intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
* 1788 , (Edward Gibbon), (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) , volume 68:
Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
* 1890 , (James George Frazer), (The Golden Bough) :
To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) (on) or (upon) someone.
* 2011 , John Mullan, The Guardian , 2 Dec 2011:
To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
* , chapter=19
, title= A single act of .
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, passage=There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”}}
A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
As nouns the difference between attendance and visit
is that attendance is (the state of attending) The state of attending; presence while visit is a single act of visiting.As a verb visit is
of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below..attendance
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Alternative forms
* attendanceEtymology
From (etyl) atendance, fromNoun
(en noun)- Attendance at the meeting is required.
- The class sat down so that the teacher could take attendance .
- John's attendance for the conventions was not good.
See also
* bums in seatsvisit
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Verb
(en verb)- [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
- Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
- Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
- There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
- If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}