Attach
[ə'tætʃ]
Definition
(verb.) be attached; be in contact with.
(verb.) become attached; 'The spider's thread attached to the window sill'.
(verb.) cause to be attached.
Checker: Max--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
(v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
(v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
(v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
(v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
(v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
(v. i.) To adhere; to be attached.
(v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
(n.) An attachment.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Fasten, tie, join, connect, cement, affix, fix, append, subjoin, annex, hitch, make fast, set to.[2]. Attract, captivate, enamour, endear, charm, win, engage, gain over.[3]. (Law.) Take, seize, distrain, distress.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Fasten, apply, append, add, fix, subjoin, annex, unite, conciliate, tie,connect, conjoin, attract, win, bind
ANT:Unfasten, Ioose, disunite, untie, disconnect, detach, alienate, estrange,repel
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Definition
n. a young diplomatist attached to the suite of an ambassador.
v.t. to bind or fasten: to seize: to gain over: to connect associate: to join to in action or function: (Shak.) to arrest.—v.i. to adhere to be fastened upon: (rare) to come into effect.—adj. Attach′able.—p.adj. Attached′ fastened fixed joined by taste or affection (with to) fond devoted to.—n. Attach′ment a bond of fidelity or affection: the seizure of any one's goods or person by virtue of a legal process.
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Examples
- Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A more generous interpretation would be to say that he had tried to be inclusive, to attach a hundred sectional agitations to a national program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Don't attach any weight to my hesitation. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Attach a small toy bell to a glass rod (Fig. 166) by means of a rubber tube and pass the rod through one of two openings in a rubber cork. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- They will now see what sort of woman it is that can attach me, that can attach a man of sense. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- True; both these and the opposite names will always attach to all of them. Plato. The Republic.
- All the obnoxious characters of change and diversity thus attach themselves to doing while knowing is as permanent as its object. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Great importance has been attached to this variation in the inclination of the equator to the orbit by Dr. Croll in his book _Climate and Time_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- No, it is not even attached to a wire. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- To this plunger is attached a weighted case filled with one or many tons of metal or other coarse material. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I am so much attached to you that I may confide in you, my dear, as a third party wholly disinterested, that he is fickleness itself. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The telephone receiver was held on the head with a spring, the flexible connecting wire being attached to the lap board, thus leaving the operator with both hands free. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I dare say, returned Harriet, sighing again, I dare say she was very much attached to him. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Three were the oval Mill bomb type, serrated, heavy iron with a spring level held down in position by a cotter pin with pulling rig attached. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This is done by attaching to the service pipe tanks filled with filtering material, through which the water flows before reaching the boiler. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The present question for us to decide is, whether I am wrongly attaching a meaning to a mere accident? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Do they by attaching to the soul and inhering in her at last bring her to death, and so separate her from the body? Plato. The Republic.
- The mistake is not in attaching importance to preparation for future need, but in making it the mainspring of present effort. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Her manners were attaching, and soon banished his reserve. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Genuine knowledge has all the practical value attaching to efficient habits in any case. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Now, my love, you must not imagine, in your off-hand way, that I have been attaching myself to an idiot. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- However this may be, there can be no doubt that a peculiar artificiality attaches to much of what is learned in schools. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Habit attaches me to Fred Lamb. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- In equivalent language, less intellectual or educative quality attaches to the training. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Besides, George Gaunt and I were intimate in early life; he was my junior when we were attaches at Pumpernickel together. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The fact is that there is one really serious flaw in this evidence to which our friend attaches so much importance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Many women are lovelier than Thomasin, she said, so not much attaches to that. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I understand, though, Mr. Letterblair continued, that she attaches no importance to the money. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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