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attach
/əˈtætʃ/
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What does attach mean?
verb
- To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
- To adhere; to be attached.
- To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
More meanings (5)
verb
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- 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.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- (obsolete) To arrest, seize.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈtætʃ/
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The whole incident was so out of the natural that she did not attach too much weight to anything she imagined.
All the obnoxious characters of change and diversity thus attach themselves to doing while knowing is as permanent as its object.
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Sensitive people, who generally have an acuter olfactory sense than others, attach to any perceived odor all the other appropriate phenomena.
She did not appear to attach much value to her husband’s compliment, and painted steadily, sometimes muttering a half-audible word or groan.
In this way great honor may come to attach to an employment which in its own nature belongs to the baser sort.