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attach

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Scrabble points
11
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/əˈtæt͡ʃ/

Definition of attach

8 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
    “You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.”
    “An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.”
    “[T]he ſhoulder-blade has no bony communication with the trunk, either by a joint, or proceſs, or in any other way. […] It is bedded in the fleſh; attached only to the muſcles.”
    “A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later”
    “Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.”
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verb

  1. (transitive)To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
    “You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.”
    “An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.”
    “[T]he ſhoulder-blade has no bony communication with the trunk, either by a joint, or proceſs, or in any other way. […] It is bedded in the fleſh; attached only to the muſcles.”
    “A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later”
    “Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.”
  2. (intransitive)To adhere; to be attached.
    “The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.”
  3. To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
    “I've attached the contract to this email.”
  4. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
    “Dower will attach.”
    “it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.”
  5. 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.
    “attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery”
    “incapable of attaching a sensible man”
    “God […] by various ties attaches man to man.”
  6. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
    “to attach great importance to a particular circumstance”
    “Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.”
    “To this treasure a curse is attached.”
  7. (obsolete)To take, seize, or lay hold of.
    “Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.”
  8. (obsolete)To arrest, seize.
    “Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]”
    “Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.”
    “The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.”

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Etymology

From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack. Displaced native Old English þīedan.

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