Attach \At*tach"\, v. i.
1. To adhere; to be attached.
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The great interest which attaches to the mere
knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
--Brougham.
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2. To come into legal operation in connection with anything;
to vest; as, dower will attach. --Cooley.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Attach \At*tach"\, n.
An attachment. [Obs.] --Pope.
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Attach \At*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attached; p. pr. & vb.
n. Attaching.] [OF. atachier, F. attacher, to tie or
fasten: cf. Celt. tac, tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack
to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see Tack.]
1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join;
as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue,
or the like.
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The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the
muscles. --Paley.
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A huge stone to which the cable was attached.
--Macaulay.
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2. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by
authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a
certain regiment, company, or ship.
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3. 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; as, attached to a friend; attaching
others to us by wealth or flattery.
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Incapable of attaching a sensible man. --Miss
Austen.
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God . . . by various ties attaches man to man.
--Cowper.
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4. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or
attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great
importance to a particular circumstance.
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Top this treasure a curse is attached. --Bayard
Taylor.
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5. To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] --Shak.
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6. 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.
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The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high
treason. --Miss Yonge.
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Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so
that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
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Syn: To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin;
annex; append; win; gain over; conciliate.
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attach
v 1: cause to be attached [ant: detach]
2: be attached; be in contact with
3: become attached; "The spider's thread attached to the window
sill" [ant: detach]
4: create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to
bond with the child" [syn: bind, tie, bond]
5: take temporary possession of as a security, by legal
authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents
impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated
the stolen artwork" [syn: impound, sequester, confiscate,
seize]
WordNet (r) 2.0
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "attach":
add, adhere, adjoin, affiliate, affix, agglutinate, anchor, annex,
append, apply, appropriate, ascribe, assign, associate, attract,
attribute, belay, bend, bind, bond, braze, burden, cement, cinch,
clamp, cleave, clinch, collectivize, commandeer, communalize,
communize, complicate, confiscate, conjoin, connect, cramp,
decorate, distrain, encumber, endear, engraft, enlist, expropriate,
fasten, fix, garnish, give, glue, glue on, graft, grapple,
hitch on, impound, impress, impute, infix, join, join with, knit,
lay hold of, levy, make fast, moor, nationalize, ornament,
paste on, pin, place, plus, postfix, prefix, press, put, put to,
put with, refer, replevin, replevy, rivet, saddle with, screw up,
second, secure, seize, sequester, sequestrate, set, set to,
slap on, socialize, solder, stick, subjoin, suffix, superadd,
superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, tie, tighten, trice up, trim,
unite, unite with, weld
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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