attach.
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
Meaning & usage
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.
To adhere; to be attached.
To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
I've attached the contract to this email.
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
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 take, seize, or lay hold of.
To arrest, seize.
Where this word comes from
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.
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