điểm danh
Definition
- Verb:
- To take attendance / To call the roll: The act of checking who is present and who is absent in a group, such as students in a classroom or members in a meeting.
- To report one's presence: The act of confirming that one is present at a specific time or place.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- The teacher takes attendance every morning at 8:00 AM. (Giáo viên điểm danh mỗi sáng lúc 8 giờ.)
- Please raise your hand when I call your name to take attendance. (Vui lòng giơ tay khi tôi gọi tên để điểm danh.)
- He had to report to the office to check in for the meeting. (Anh ấy phải đến văn phòng để điểm danh cho cuộc họp.)
Advanced Usage
- "To mark someone present": Specifically recording that a person is in attendance.
- The professor marked him present even though he arrived late. (Giáo sư đã đánh dấu anh ấy có mặt mặc dù anh ấy đến muộn.)
- "To be absent from roll call": To be missing when names are being checked.
- Three students were found to be absent from roll call. (Ba học sinh đã bị phát hiện vắng mặt trong lúc điểm danh.)
Variants and Related Words
- Attendance (noun): The act of being present at an event or place.
- Attendance is mandatory for this course. (Việc điểm danh là bắt buộc đối với khóa học này.)
- Roll call (noun): The act of reading aloud a list of names to check who is present.
- The sergeant conducted a roll call before the mission. (Trung sĩ đã thực hiện việc điểm danh trước khi làm nhiệm vụ.)
Synonyms
- Check in: To report that you have arrived.
- Register: To record names on a list.
- Verify presence: To confirm that someone is physically there.
Phrasal Verbs
- Check off: To mark someone's name on a list to show they are present.
- The supervisor checked off each employee as they entered the building. (Người giám sát đã đánh dấu tên từng nhân viên khi họ bước vào tòa nhà.)
Idioms
- Answer the roll: To respond when one's name is called during attendance.
- Every soldier must answer the roll at dawn. (Mỗi người lính đều phải có mặt khi được điểm danh vào lúc bình minh.)
