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Attached   /ətˈætʃt/   Listen
verb
Attach  v. t.  (past & past part. attached; pres. part. attaching)  
1.
To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. "The shoulder blade is... attached only to the muscles." "A huge stone to which the cable was attached."
2.
To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
3.
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; as, 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."
4.
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance. "Top this treasure a curse is attached."
5.
To take, seize, or lay hold of. (Obs.)
6.
To take by legal authority:
(a)
To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal.
(b)
To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. "The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason."
Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
Synonyms: To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin; annex; append; win; gain over; conciliate.


Attach  v. i.  
1.
To adhere; to be attached. "The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted."
2.
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.


adjective
attached  adj.  
1.
Fastened together. "A picnic table with attached benches"
2.
Being joined in close association; of people or organizations.
Synonyms: affiliated, connected
3.
Fastened onto another object; of objects smaller than the main object.
4.
(Architecture) Connected by a common wall or passageway; used of buildings.. Antonym: detached.
5.
(Biology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about. "An attached oyster". Antonym: vagile.
Synonyms: sessile
6.
Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; opposite of unattached. Note: Narrower terms include: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married. Also See: loving.
Synonyms: committed.





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"Attached" Quotes from Famous Books



... good comrades to each other. In play time they are always together, according to their wont. In the girls' school, for instance, they form into groups according to the instrument on which they play,—violinists, pianists, and flute-players,—and they never separate. When they have become attached to any one, it is difficult for them to break it off. They take much comfort in friendship. They judge correctly among themselves. They have a clear and profound idea of good and evil. No one grows so enthusiastic as they ...
— Cuore (Heart) - An Italian Schoolboy's Journal • Edmondo De Amicis
... and a solid shot carrying a line rose in the air, made a curve like a flying rocket, and fell athwart the wreck between her forestay and jib. A cheer went up from the men about the gun. When this line was hauled in and the hawser attached to it made fast high up on the mainmast and above the raging sea, and the car run off to the wreck, the crew could be landed clear of the surf and ...
— The Tides of Barnegat • F. Hopkinson Smith
... have a political aspect. The "great Ghibelline poet" is one of Dante's received synonymes; of his strong political opinions, and the importance he attached to them, there can be no doubt. And he meant his poem to be the vehicle of them, and the record to all ages of the folly and selfishness with which he saw men governed. That he should take the deepest interest in the goings-on of his time ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... fires, hid our things, and hastened behind our entrenchment. I seized my rifle; Chanden Sing loaded the Martini. A Shoka, who was too far off to reach our fortified abode in time, screened himself behind some rocks. In the nick of time! Half-a-dozen sepoys with matchlocks, to which were attached red flags, slung over their shoulders, were cantering gaily up the hillside only a few yards in front of us. They were undoubtedly searching for me, judging by the way they looked in every direction, but fortunately they never turned ...
— In the Forbidden Land • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... and beaux of picturesque and courtly ages were, of course, very partial to canes, and sometimes wore them attached to the wrist by a thong. It has been the custom of the Surgeon of the King of England to carry a "Gold Headed Cane." This cane has been handed down to the various incumbents of this office since the days of Dr. John Radcliffe, who was the first holder of the cane. It has been used for ...
— Walking-Stick Papers • Robert Cortes Holliday


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