attach

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to be connected or attached

   It was easy to attach the car to the hoist.

2. 2
   verb

   to adhere to

   The spider's thread attached to the window sill.

3. 3
   verb

   to create social or emotional ties

   The child was attached to their parents.

4. 4
   verb

   To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

   You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.

5. 5
   verb

   To adhere; to be attached.

   The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

6. 6
   verb

   To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).

   I've attached the contract to this email.

7. 7
   verb

   To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

   Dower will attach.

8. 8
   verb

   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.

   attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery

Etymology

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.