Definition of "attach"

attach

/əˈtæt͡ʃ/

verb
third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached
1. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
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  The shoulder blade is […] attached only to the muscles.
  1802, William Paley, Natural Theology
  A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
  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.
  2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist
2. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
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  The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
  1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
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  it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.
  1886, Thomas M. Cooley, A Treatise on the Law of Taxation
4. 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.
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  incapable of attaching a sensible man
  1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […]
  God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
  1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]
5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
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  To this treasure a curse is attached.
  1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature
6. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
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  Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.
  c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 4, scene 3, lines 351–352
7. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
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  Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
  1868, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Cameos from English History

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