Attach
Pronunciation
- RP IPA: /əˈtætʃ/
- Rhymes: -ætʃ
Origin
From Old French atachier (French: attacher, Italian: attaccare, Spanish: atacar, Portuguese atacar).
Full definition of attach
Verb
- (obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait,
Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait ... - 1610, , by William Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2Old lord, I cannot blame thee,
Who am myself attach'd with weariness
To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest. - Miss YongeThe earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- PaleyThe shoulder blade is ... attached only to the muscles.
- Macaulaya huge stone to which the cable was attached
- 2013, Lee S. Langston, The Adaptable Gas Turbine, 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.
- You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
- (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
- BroughamThe great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.Dower will attach.
- 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
- Jane Austenincapable of attaching a sensible man
- CowperGod ... by various ties attaches man to man.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- Bayard TaylorTo this treasure a curse is attached.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.