attach

verbattested in dialogue

//əˈtæt͡ʃ//

To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

verb

1
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
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
2
To adhere; to be attached.
The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
3
To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
I've attached the contract to this email.
4
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
Dower will attach.
it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.
5
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
incapable of attaching a sensible man
God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
6
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.
To this treasure a curse is attached.
7
obsoleteTo take, seize, or lay hold of.
Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
8
obsoleteTo arrest, seize.
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.

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.

Forms

past tense: attached
past participle: attached
present participle: attaching
third person singular: attaches

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attach · To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

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