to fasten or affix; join; connect: to attach a photograph to an application with a staple.
to join in action or function; make part of: to attach oneself to a group.
Military. to place on temporary duty with or in assistance to a military unit.
to include as a quality or condition of something: One proviso is attached to this legacy.
to assign or attribute: to attach significance to a gesture.
to bind by ties of affection or regard: You always attach yourself to people who end up hurting you.
Law. to take (persons or property) by legal authority.
Obsolete. to lay hold of; seize.
verb (used without object)
to adhere; pertain; belong (usually followed by to or upon): No blame attaches to him.
Origin of attach
1300–50; Middle English atachen<Anglo-French atacher to seize, Old French atachier to fasten, alteration of estachier to fasten with or to a stake, equivalent to estach(e) (<Germanic *stakkastake1) + -ier infinitive suffix
We have a specific idea to attach to THE INTERVIEW that will crush.
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In DBS, a neurosurgeon implants electrodes in the brain that attach to a “pacemaker” for the brain.
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Using skewers/tooth picks, attach monkey bread, Cinnabons, and churros to battleship.
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“Attach Form(s) W-2” would be an exercise in the stapling of nothingness.
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True, making an Item 24 deduction requires me to “Attach Form 2106.”
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We may now attach other straying symbols as holding them in mind.
Cupology|Clara
Vesta's countenance fell, as she thought of the suspicion that might attach to her father.
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The name marks a change in the idea which had come to attach to that name since the days of Homer.
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If any one did not attach himself as client to a great family he was lost.
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The men there, attach the hawser to the whip, and by hauling one side thereof in, they run the other side and the hawser out.
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British Dictionary definitions for attach
attach
/ (əˈtætʃ) /
verb(mainly tr)
to join, fasten, or connect
(reflexive or passive)to become associated with or join, as in a business or other venturehe attached himself to the expedition
(intr foll by to) to be inherent (in) or connected (with)responsibility attaches to the job
to attribute or ascribeto attach importance to an event
to include or append, esp as a conditiona proviso is attached to the contract
(usually passive)militaryto place on temporary duty with another unit
(usually passive)to put (a member of an organization) to work in a different unit or agency, either with an expectation of reverting to, or while retaining some part of, the original working arrangement
to appoint officially
lawto arrest or take (a person, property, etc) with lawful authority
obsoleteto seize
Derived forms of attach
attachable, adjectiveattacher, noun
Word Origin for attach
C14: from Old French atachier to fasten, changed from estachier to fasten with a stake, from estachestake1