attach

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To fasten or join one thing to another.

   You need to attach the rope to the hook.

2. 2
   verb

   To include a file with an email or other electronic message.

   I've attached the contract to this email.

3. 3
   verb

   To form a close emotional bond with someone.

   The child quickly became attached to their new teacher.

4. 4
   verb

   To stick firmly to a surface.

   The spider's thread attached to the window sill.

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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