attach

verb

/əˈtæt͡ʃ/

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.

derived from *stakô✻ — “pole, bar, stick, stake”
derived from *stakkā✻
derived from atachier
inherited from attachen

Definitions

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.
2
To adhere
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…
To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
- I've attached the contract to this email.
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1. 4
  To come into legal operation in connection with anything
  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.
2. 5
  To win the heart of
  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.
3. 6
  To connect, in a figurative sense
  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.
4. 7
  To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  - Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
5. 8
  To 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.

The neighborhood

neighborattachment

Derived

attachability, attachable, attached annulus, attacher, attachingness, attachment, deattach, disattach, get attached, no string attached, no-strings-attached, no strings attached, reattach, re-attach, semi-attached, string attached, strings attached, unattach, would lose one's head if it wasn't attached

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at attach. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at attach. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at attach

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA