attach
pronunciation
How to pronounce attach in British English:
UK [əˈtætʃ]
How to pronounce attach in American English:
US [əˈtætʃ]
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- Verb:
- cause to be attached
- be attached; be in contact with
- become attached
- create social or emotional ties
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
Word Origin
- attach
- attach: [14] When English first acquired it, attach meant ‘seize’ or ‘arrest’. It is Germanic in origin, but reached us via Old French atachier. This was an alteration of earlier Old French estachier ‘fasten (with a stake)’, which was based on a hypothetical Germanic *stakōn. The metaphorical meaning ‘arrest’ appears to have arisen in Anglo-Norman, the route by which the word reached English from Old French; the original, literal sense ‘fasten, join’ did not arrive in English until as late as the 18th century, as a reborrowing from modern French attacher.A similar borrowing of Germanic *stakōn into Italian produced the ancestor of English attack.=> attack, stake
- attach (v.)
- mid-14c. (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), "to take or seize (property or goods) by law," a legal term, from Old French atachier (11c.), earlier estachier "to attach, fix; stake up, support" (Modern French attacher, also compare Italian attaccare), perhaps from a- "to" + Frankish *stakon "a post, stake" or a similar Germanic word (see stake (n.)). Meaning "to fasten, affix, connect" is from c. 1400. Related: Attached; attaching.
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Example
- 1. I was also unable to attach photos to outgoing emails .
- 2. Younger , more self-made entrepreneurs are the likeliest to attach strings .
- 3. So should attractive women simply attach photos that make them look dowdy ?
- 4. Attach it to the dismembered leg of an unsuspecting cockroach and listen to its neurons as an iphone interface creates visualizations .
- 5. Such antibodies recognise and attach themselves to these molecules , rendering them harmless .