attach
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
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.
Inflected forms:
form: attaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: attaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: attached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: attached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To adhere; to be attached.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
gloss: To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
pos: verb
examples: I've attached the contract to this email.
gloss: To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
pos: verb
examples: Dower will attach.
it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
pos: verb
examples: to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.
To this treasure a curse is attached.
gloss: To take, seize, or lay hold of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
gloss: To arrest, seize.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 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.
Related words: attachment
Derived words: attachability
attachable
attached annulus
attacher
attachingness
attachment
deattach
disattach
get attached
no string attached
no-strings-attached
no strings attached
reattach
re-attach
semi-attached
string attached
strings attached
unattach
would lose one's head if it wasn't attached
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