Attach

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  • intransitive verb. To fasten, secure, or join.
  • intransitive verb. To connect as an adjunct or associated condition or part.
  • intransitive verb. To affix or append; add.
  • intransitive verb. To ascribe or assign.
  • intransitive verb. To bind by emotional ties, as of affection or loyalty.
  • intransitive verb. To assign (personnel) to a military unit on a temporary basis.
  • intransitive verb. To seize (property) by legal writ.
  • intransitive verb. To adhere, belong, or relate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An attachment.
  • noun. An attack.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To adhere; to be attached.
  • intransitive verb. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  • noun. An attachment.
  • transitive verb. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join.
  • transitive verb. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint.
  • transitive verb. 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
  • transitive verb. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to.
  • transitive verb. To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To arrest, seize.
  • verb. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. create social or emotional ties
  • verb. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
  • verb. become attached
  • verb. cause to be attached
  • verb. be attached; be in contact with
  • Word Usage
    "A person without health insurance having a heart attach is just like a person without auto insurance causing an accident."
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    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rach  Thatch  Vlach  batch  brach  
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    accrue  add  adhere  adhere  adjoin  
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