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Attach
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- 1 To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively). transitive
"You need to attach the carabiner to your harness."
- 2 be attached; be in contact with wordnet
- 3 To adhere; to be attached. intransitive
"The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted."
- 4 become attached wordnet
- 5 To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
"I've attached the contract to this email."
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- 6 cause to be attached wordnet
- 7 To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
"Dower will attach."
- 8 take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority wordnet
- 9 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"
- 10 create social or emotional ties wordnet
- 11 To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
"to attach great importance to a particular circumstance"
- 12 To take, seize, or lay hold of. obsolete
"Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress."
- 13 To arrest, seize. obsolete
"Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]"
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.
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