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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



... deny the facts of Christianity. Thomas was ready to believe, glad to believe, when the proof was sufficient to convince him. Then all the while he was ardently a true and devoted friend of Jesus, attached to him, and ready to ...
— Personal Friendships of Jesus • J. R. Miller
... state of nature it is a brutal passion, nothing more. There is no romance attached. But life creeps upward, and the gregarious human forms social groups the like of which never existed before. Consider the family group, for instance. Such a group becomes in itself an entity. By means of the group man is better enabled to pursue ...
— The Kempton-Wace Letters • Jack London
... is attached to me as authority for other people's thoughts and actions. A tacit acqui- [10] escence with others' views is often construed as direct orders,—or at least it so appears in results. I desire the equal growth and prosperity ...
— Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 • Mary Baker Eddy
... strange and new to our people that they willingly complied, and looked on with astonishment. They had tied certain small fishes which they call reves by the tail with a long line and let them into the water, where these reves attached themselves to other fishes, by means of a certain roughness which they have from the head to the middle of the back, and stick so fast that the Indians drew both up together. It was a turtle our men saw taken in this manner, and the reve ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. III. • Robert Kerr
... needed the background of uninterrupted sky apparently to throw them into sufficient relief to be recognised. After some years, this special sign was withdrawn, and others have taken its place. For example, I have seen in the same way, during the last fourteen years, an anchor, with the chain attached to it, and caught through one end of the former, a short reaping hook. This, doubtless, has some symbolical meaning. Near the anchor I see a sacrificial altar, with flames rising up from it; then a triangle, with loops at the corners, which I was once told was the sign of Nostradamus. Then ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates


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