Attach

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To fasten, secure, or join: attached the wires to the post.
  • v. To connect as an adjunct or associated condition or part: Many major issues are attached to this legislation.
  • v. To affix or append; add: attached several riders to the document.
  • v. To ascribe or assign: attached no significance to the threat.
  • v. To bind by emotional ties, as of affection or loyalty: I am attached to my family.
  • v. To assign (personnel) to a military unit on a temporary basis.
  • v. Law To seize (persons or property) by legal writ.
  • verb-intransitive. To adhere, belong, or relate: Very little prestige attaches to this position.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To arrest, seize.
  • v. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join.
  • v. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint.
  • v. 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
  • v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to.
  • v. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To adhere; to be attached.
  • verb-intransitive. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  • n. An attachment.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In law, to take by legal authority.
  • To take (real or personal property) by legal warrant, to be held for the satisfaction of the judgment that may be rendered in a suit.
  • See attachment.
  • To lay hold of; seize.
  • To take, seize, or lay hold on, by moral force, as by affection or interest; fasten or bind by moral influence; win: as, his kindness attached us all to him.
  • To tack or fix to; fasten in any manner, as one thing to another, by either natural or artificial means; bind; tie; cause to adhere.
  • Figuratively, to connect; associate: as, to attach a particular significance to a word.
  • To join to or with in action or function; connect as an associate or adjunct; adjoin for duty or companionship: as, an officer is attached to such a ship, regiment, battalion, etc.; our regiment is attached to the 1st brigade; this man is attached to my service; he attached himself to me for the entire journey.
  • To adhere; pertain, as a quality or circumstance; belong or be incident: with to.
  • To be fixed or fastened; rest as an appurtenance: with on or upon.
  • To come into operation; take or have effect.
  • n. An attachment.
  • n. An attack.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. create social or emotional ties
  • v. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
  • v. become attached
  • v. cause to be attached
  • v. be attached; be in contact with
  • Verb Form
    attached    attachement    attaches    attaching   
    Cross Reference
    add    associate    appoint    attribute    joint    attached column    attaching system   
    Variant
    attachment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    append    conjoin    gain over    connect    tie    affix    conciliate    annex    subjoin    win   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rach    Thatch    Vlach    batch    brach    catch    detach    dispatch    drach    gatch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    x86-based    repugnancy    pursuant    fixed-point    between    core'    many    pressurize    signatory    dual-core