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Definition: ATTACHING |
ATTACHINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Attach |
Date "ATTACHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
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 | Attaching acoustic sensors of trawl mensuration system to the trawl. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Fig. 1 - Hurdy-gurdy to haul trawls in deep water Fig. 2 - Dory showing mode of attaching and using the hurdy-gurdy Fig. 3 - Trawl roller attached to dory gunwale for hauling trawls in shoal water Drawings by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
 | Fig. 1. Method of attaching glass floats to top of nets Fig. 2. Method of fastening sinkers to foot of nets From Bulletin U.S. Fish Commission, Vol. I, drawing by Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | Installing a 1/4 square meter grid for counting invertebrate species attaching to interior, roof of pipe. This location was a distinct habitat type ideal for larval settlement of oysters, sponges, bryozoa, and tunicates. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
 | Attaching 1/4 square meter grid to pipes by rope. The method did not work and eventually a hole was drilled in the four corners of the grid area, a stainless steel screw was attached, and nylon string was strung between the four corners. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | The sensing unit that technician Jeff Thomas is attaching records motion and other data so scientists can determine how much time this steer spends grazing each day. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Frank attaching radio transmitter while Joanne holds the baby Northern Spotted Owl. Credit: Carol Kauder. |  | U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 69, Savenay, France. : Reconstruction class, attaching iron frame to cast for peg leg for above knee amputee. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | John D. Rockefeller, Jr., attaching a can to the coattails of a puritanical character representing the Prohibitionists. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Spring pulpwood drive on the Brown Company timber holdings in Maine. Picking up the boom and attaching cable from the steamer to a link in the boom-chain which surrounds the pulpwood to be towed down Mooselookmeguntic Lake. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Load Practice" by Jelle W Commentary: "This is a slowakian loadmaster attaching a load for a Hippo helicopter. Org. size is 1280x960." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The German State submarine cables from Tsingtao to Shanghai and from Tsingtao to Chefoo, with all the rights, privileges and properties attaching thereto, are similarly acquired by Japan, free and clear of all charges and encumbrances. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Other white cells also lack adhesion molecules, preventing them from attaching to target cells and surfaces. (references) | |
Cardiomyoplasty--A surgical procedure that involves detaching one end of a back muscle and attaching it to the heart. (references) | ||
A third method to reroute urine involves making a new bladder from a piece of the patient's bowel and attaching it to the urethra. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | After the release ritual, the girl returns to her family and resumes her life, without, in the vast majority of cases, any particular stigma attaching to her status as a former Trokosi shrine participant. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "ATTACHING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 99.59% of the time. "ATTACHING" is used about 242 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 99.59% | 241 | 19,264 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 242 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ATTACHING": attaching part ♦ attaching parts. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "ATTACHING": re-attaching. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
attaching machine | 4 |
attaching deck house | 4 |
attaching deck stringer | 3 |
attaching stair stringer | 3 |
attaching his mercury sandal winged | 3 |
attaching board ledger | 2 |
attaching concrete wood | 2 |
attaching deck | 2 |
attaching deck lattice | 2 |
attaching deck stairs | 2 |
attaching deck lattice wood | 2 |
attaching file | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ATTACHING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 附有 (attached). (various references) | |
Danish | udvendigt vedhæftet appendix (external attaching appendix), trust vedrørende en fast ejendom (trust attaching to immovable property), samleelementer (attaching parts), rettigheder knyttet til værdipapirer (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), nøglepåsætningsmaskine (key attaching machine). (various references) | |
Dutch | aan de effecten verbonden rechten (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), uitwendige hechtingsappendix (external attaching appendix), trust inzake een onroerend goed (trust attaching to immovable property), stelschroef (adjusting screw, aiming screw, attaching screw, binding screw, clamping screw, fastening screw, fixing screw, grub screw, grub screw with plain stem, headless set screw with unthreaded portion, hollow set screw, lock screw: locking screw, pinch screw: pinching screw, regulating screw, set screw), bijzondere aantrekkende werking van het faillissement (special attaching force of bankruptcy), bevestigingsstuk (attaching part, fastening part), bevestigingsoog (attaching device), bevestigingsonderdelen (attaching parts), bevestigingskop (attaching head). (various references) | |
Finnish | ulkoinen lisäke (external attaching appendix), ulkoapäin liitetty lisäke (external attaching appendix), kiinnitysosa (attaching parts). (various references) | |
French | attachant (attractive). (various references) | |
German | anheftend (pinning), anfügend (annexing), beilegung (ascription, attribution, enclosure, insertion, reconciliation, settlement). (various references) | |
Greek | κεφαλή στερέωσης (attaching head), συνδετήρια εξαρτήματα (attaching parts), πόρπη στερέωσης (attaching device), εξωτερική συνδετική απόφυση (external attaching appendix), εξάρτημα στερέωσης (attaching part, fastening part), δικαιώματα που ενσωματώνονται σε τίτλους (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), δικαιώματα που είναι ενσωματωμένα στις κινητές αξíες (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), "trust" επί ακινήτου (trust attaching to immovable property). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקשר (bond, connecting, linking), דביקה (joining), דבוק (attached, evil spirit, ghost, glued, incubus, joining, obsession, sticking, stuck). (various references) | |
Italian | attrazione particolare del fallimento (special attaching force of bankruptcy), vite di fermo (attaching screw, binding screw, clamp screw, clamping screw, dowel pin, fastening screw, fixing screw, grub screw, hollow set screw, lock screw: locking screw, pinch screw: pinching screw, set screw, setscrew, stop screw), vite di bloccaggio (attaching screw, binding screw, clamping screw, fastening screw, fixing screw, grub screw, hollow set screw, lock screw: locking screw, pinch screw: pinching screw, set screw), vite di arresto (attaching screw, binding screw, clamp screw, clamping screw, dowel pin, fastening screw, fixing screw, grub screw, hollow set screw, lock screw: locking screw, pinch screw: pinching screw, set screw, setscrew, stop screw), trust aventi ad oggetto un bene immobile (trust attaching to immovable property), testa di fissaggio (attaching head), parti annesse (attaching parts), fibbia di fissaggio (attaching device), elemento di fissaggio (attaching part, fastening part), diritti connessi con i valori mobiliari (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 附随 (annexed to, attaching to, attending, concomitant, incident to), 着脱 (attaching and removing), 付随 (annexed to, attaching to, attending, concomitant, incident to). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふずい (annexed to, attaching to, attending, concomitant, incident to, palsy, paralysis), ちゃくだつ (attaching and removing). (various references) | |
Korean | 붙임. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | attachingay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anel de fixação (attaching device, mounting ring, retainer), acessório de fixação (attaching part, fastening part), trust sobre um bem imóvel (trust attaching to immovable property), peça de fixação (attaching part, fastening part), elementos de ligação (attaching parts), direitos ligados aos valores mobiliários (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), direitos inerentes aos mobiliários (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), cabeça de fixação (attaching head). (various references) | |
Romanian | ataşare (attachment, fastening). (various references) | |
Russian | подключать присоединение. (various references) | |
Spanish | trust sobre un bien inmueble (trust attaching to immovable property), tornillo de sujeción (attaching screw), piezas de montaje (attaching parts), pieza de unión (cramp), pieza de fijación (attaching part, fastening part), herraje de fijación (attaching head), hebilla de fijación (attaching device), elementos de unión (attaching parts), derechos inherentes a los valores mobiliarios (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities), derechos adscritos a los valores mobiliarios (rights attaching to securities, rights conferred by the securities). (various references) | |
Swedish | hopfästande. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "ATTACHING": reattaching. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ATTACHING" (pronounced uta"khing) |
| 4 | -a" kh i ng | catching, dispatching, hatching, latching, matching, patching, scratching, snatching. |
| 3 | -kh i ng | approaching, arching, beaching, belching, bleaching, branching, breaching, broaching, bunching, clinching, clutching, coaching, crouching, crunching, ditching, drenching, encroaching, enriching, entrenching, etching, fetching, flinching, hitching, impeaching, inching, itching, launching, leaching, lunching, lurching, lynching, marching, mulching, munching, overarching, overreaching, pinching, pitching, poaching, preaching, punching, quenching, ranching, reaching, researching, retouching, retrenching, scorching, screeching, searching, sketching, slouching, snitching, squelching, stanching, stitching, stretching, switching, teaching, torching, touching, twitching, unflinching, vouching, watching, witching, wrenching. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-h-i-n-t-t" | |
-1 letter: chatting. | |
-2 letters: acanthi, agnatic, catting, gnathic, hatting. | |
-3 letters: aahing, aching, acting, attach, attain, canthi, hating, intact. | |
-4 letters: acing, actin, again, aitch, antic, attic, chain, chang, chant, china, giant, natch, night, tacit, taiga, taint, thing, tight, tinct, titan. | |
-5 letters: acta, agha, agin, anga, anta, anti, cain, cant, chat, chia, chin, chit, gain, gait, ghat, gnat, hang. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-h-i-n-t-t" | |
+2 letters: reattaching. | |
+5 letters: authenticating, thanatological. | |
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