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Attach

Definition: Attach

Attach

Verb

1. Cause to be attached.

2. Be attached; be in contact with.

3. Become attached.

4. Take by legal authority; "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "attach" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Specialty Definition: Attach

DomainDefinition

Computing

To reserve a system resource such as a storage unit for the exclusive use of a specific program. Source: European Union. (references)
 To attach a device or unit to a machine, or to attach a machine to an assembly. Source: European Union. (references)

Military

1. To place units or personnel in an organization where such placement is relatively temporary. Subject to limitations imposed in the attachment order, the commander of the formation, unit, or organization receiving the attachment will exercise the same degree of command and control thereover as he does over the units and persons organic to his command. However, the responsibility for transfer and promotion of personnel will normally be retained by the parent formation, unit, or organization. 2. To detail individuals to specific functions where such functions are secondary or relatively temporary, i.e., attach for quarters and rations, attach for flying duty. See also assign. (references)

Post & Telecom

The process whereby a portable part within the coverage area of a fixed part to which it has access rights, notifies this fixed part that it is operative. The reverse process is detach, which reports the portable part as inoperable. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Attach

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ATTACH

EnglishAdvanced Transeuropean telematics applications for community helpComputing, Social Sciences

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Attach

Synonyms: confiscate (v), impound (v), seize (v), sequester (v). (additional references)
Antonym: detach (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Attach

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Belief

Make oneself easy about, on that score; take on trust, take on credit; take for granted, take for gospel; allow some weight to, attach some weight to.

Importance

Attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to; Noun: value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark; mark with a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on.

Junction

Attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist, make fast; Adjective: tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch, tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice, swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter; (restrain); lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple, accouple, link, yoke, bracket; marry; (wed); bridge over, span.

Lawsuit

Serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge; (restrain).

Love

Excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.

Overestimation

Verb: overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh, overreckon, overstrain, overpraise; eulogize; estimate too highly, attach too much importance to, make mountains of molehills, catch at straws; strain, magnify; exaggerate; set too high a value upon; think much of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of; outreckon; panegyrize.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Attach

English words defined with "attach": Accorporate, Adhibit, affix, annex, aponeurosis, append, Attachingband oneself, bell, bryozoancarabiner, clevis, clip, clout, clout nail, codedrawbarEngaged columnfamily Loranthaceae, fasten, Fresh-water oystergluehang on, hingeinfix, inspankarabinerlabel, league together, limber, limber up, Loranthaceaemark, mistletoe family, moss animal, mountnailoutriggerpaste, pin, pin down, pin up, polyzoan, Preengage, prefixReattach, ring, rope up, rotator cuffScotch Tape, sea mat, sea moss, Sellotape, skateboard, snap ring, spirit gum, Stick, stick on, suffix, supporttack on, tag, tag on, tape, tendril, To hitch up, To hook on, To lay stress upon, To make a point of, To put to, To put together, To set by, To set to, To stand upon, To take sides, true rib. (references)
Specialty definitions using "attach": File AttachSingle Connection Attach. (references)
Etymologies containing "attach": implicitlampreysedum. (references)

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Modern Usage: Attach

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I know that you cannot see in that bathroom because that is a shielded fire door, but if and when your power kicks in and you do look through my clothes, I will rip your head off and attach it to his butt! (Generation X; writing credit: Eric Blakeney)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Attach

DomainTitle

Books

  • Direct Attach Xseries for the IBM Elogo Server Iseries Server: A Guide to Implementing Xseries Servers in Iseries (reference)

  • How to Attach an Interface Card to an Apple IIE Computer (reference)

  • View from a Kite: Kite Aerial Photography How to Attach a Camera to a Kite and Take Stunning Aerial Photographs (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Attach

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Attach

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Aquatic bacteria were grown as biofilm on steel for one week. Biofilms are colonies of microorganisms that attach and grow on a solid surface that has been exposed to water. Credit: CDC.

Using this staining technique, fluorescent dye is attached to the known antibodies that correspond to the suspected antigen. These antibodies will in turn attach to the antigen molecules, if present, and fluoresce when viewed with a fluorescent light. Credit: CDC.

Wiredrag - N. H. Heck watching the brake to stop reel Reel stopped to attach floats and buoys to mark wire location Deck of contract sloop NENA A. ROWLAND Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck Only known photograph of Nicholas Heck in the field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A mountain of oysters. Where spawning conditions are good, oysters in their natural state will attach themselves, one generation atop another, until great ridges of them exist up to high tide. However, such oysters are poor quality and of little commercial value. By spreading them out and giving them room to grow, the quality can be improved. F&W A-6151. Credit: Fisheries.

One diver prepares to attach coral, another diver works using surface supplied air. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A permanent grid station showing outline of sample grid, stainless steel screw used to attach the nylon line, and the invertebrate community typical of the inside roof of pipe. Credit: The Coral Kingdom.

Figure 57. Puhler sounder, described by Christian Puhler in 1563, repeated an idea first put forth by Cardinal Nicholas Pusanus a century earlier. The principle, was to attach a float to a weight making it heavier than water. Upon striking bottom, the float would detach. Depth would be derived from round- trip travel time. It is unknown if this device was ever field tested. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Mitchell Field. Air force tractor crew attach a towing link between a bomber and an airdrome tractor. The crew and tractor can handle the largest aircraft. Credit: Library of Congress.

Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war workers attach cylinder barrels to one of the "green" engines in a huge Midwest aircraft plant. Melrose Park, Buick plant. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Attach

AuthorQuotation

Nicholas Boileau

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Attach

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

If anyone holding of us a lay fief shall die, and our sheriff or bailiff shall exhibit our letters patent of summons for a debt which the deceased owed us, it shall be lawful for our sheriff or bailiff to attach and enroll the chattels of the deceased, found upon the lay fief, to the value of that debt, at the sight of law worthy men, provided always that nothing whatever be thence removed until the debt which is evident shall be fully paid to us; and the residue shall be left to the executors to fulfill the will of the deceased; and if there be nothing due from him to us, all the chattels shall go to the deceased, saving to his wife and children their reasonable shares. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

It shall attach a qualified representative to each Inter-Allied Commission of Control for the purpose of receiving the communications which the Commission may have to address to the German Government and of supplying or procuring for the Commission all information or documents which may be required. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Attach

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

He never wished to attach me.

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Reminiscences, affectionate and respectful, for they relate to his mother, attach him to this period.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Attach

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Neurotransmitters are released by neurons and attach themselves to receptors on parts of neighboring cells. (references)

These ticks could fall off without biting the animal and subsequently attach to and bite people inside the house. (references)

When these drugs attach to certain opioid receptors, they can block the transmission of pain messages to the brain. (references)

Business

In general, Japanese importers send you care labels in the Japanese language, and you attach them to products. (references)

Not all products can be easily sold and, even in a high-priced country such as Germany, it is important to attach the right price tag to a product. (references)

Another important point to keep in mind concerns the nature of reaching an agreement with a Korean firm. Westerners attach great importance to a written contract that specifies each detail of the business relationship. (references)

Economic History

Australia

For example, both countries sent military forces to the Persian Gulf in support of UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq's occupation of Kuwait; both attach high priority to controlling and eventually eliminating chemical weapons, other weapons of mass destruction, and anti-personnel landmines; and both work closely on global environmental issues such as slowing climate change and preserving coral reefs. (references)

Switzerland

Product groups with good prospects include educational services (including studies in the U.S. per se) for language and any type of corporate trainings, e-learning and distance learning, PC based educational courses, software (e.g. software permitting several monitors to attach to the same server), computers and peripheral equipment, laboratory instruments and systems for physics, chemistry, biology and medicine, AV equipment, simulators, first aid training devices, physical fitness equipment, games, toys and books. (references)

Human Rights

Belize

However, the DPP's criminal investigation was unable to attach blame to any officer, and the investigation was closed. (references)

Political Economy

China

In many cases, particularly in sensitive political cases, the judicial system denies criminal defendants basic legal safeguards and due process because authorities attach higher priority to maintaining public order and suppressing political opposition than to enforcing legal norms or protecting individual rights. (references)

Trade

Nigeria

Importers no longer are required to attach certificate of incorporation and tax clearance certificate to the Modified Form 'M'. (references)

Cote D'ivoire

Pro-forma Invoice: Persons wishing to import goods are required to attach six copies of this invoice to the application for an import license and/or the intent to import. (references)

Travel

Korea

Westerners attach great importance to a written contract which specifies each detail of the business relationship. (references)

Worker Rights

Singapore

Employers must notify the Commissioner of Labor within 30 days of hiring a child between the ages of 14 and 16 and must attach medical certification of fitness for employment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Attach

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981We attach major importance to strong economic assistance programs to the countries in the area, which include a majority of the poor of the non-Communist world.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Attach

"Attach" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 51.11% of the time. "Attach" is used about 807 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)51.11%41313,687
Lexical Verb (base form)48.89%39514,105
                    Total100.00%807N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Attach

Expressions using "attach": attach blame attach importance to attach important attach oneself to attach smb. to oneself attach some weight to attach to file Attach not to attach single Connection Attach. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "attach": attach-case.

Ending with "attach": channel-attach, re-attach.

Containing "attach": re-attach-see.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Attach

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

attach

51

attach landing stair stringer

3

attach heart

20

attach mailto

3

heart attach symptom

18

attach bga device

3

die attach

8

attach outlook unlock

3

attach server sql

7

07 09 2002 82888 attach fatecard.swf xicn.net

3

attach bladder gall

6

attach mate

3

attach to the net

6

2000 attach exchange file get

3

attach message pdf

6

attach china

3

attach fast

6

attach clamp nipple

3

attach guitar strap

5

die attach tester

3

attach mr16

5

attach file email

3

98 attach backup device exec win

5

attach bucket quick

3

attach platform swim

4

attach file paperclip

3

attach file

4

anxiety attach

2

attach file sendmail

4

attach presse

2

attach patch

4

attach cap cement stone wall

2

10 2002 25 95430 attach ce.swf xicn.net

4

network attach storage

2

attach heart sign

4

alligator attach

2

panic attach

4

attach diode laser

2

sp attach db

4

attach file form

2

attach it

3

attach quick

2

attach device services

3

attach quick

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Attach

Language Translations for "attach"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

vasstel (affix, determine, fasten, fix, make, make fast, secure), vasmaak (affix, determine, fasten, fix, make, make fast, secure), bepaal (affix, command, confine, define, determine, fasten, fix, limit, make, make fast, order, qualify, restrict, secure, set, set conditions, stipulate, tell). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

(apply, contract, deposit, direct, establish, get in, get on, impose, inflict, instal, install, instate, lay, lay down, locate, mislay, place, plant, pull on, put, set, settle, shut, stand, station, stick, Stow), takoj (belong, chance on, come across, cross, encounter, happen, meet, reach, run up against, salute), shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, heighten, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), ngjit (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), ngjis (agglutinate, arrogate, ascribe, attribute, braze, climb, fuse, fuze, glue, gum, impute, Mount, paste, post, post up, put up, seal, solder, splice, stick, transmit, weld), mbaj (Bate, bear, breed, carry, deduct, enshrine, force upon, get off, give, have, have smth. on, hold, keep, keep on, maintain, man, perform, pitch, preserve, refrain, respect, retain, save, support, sustain, wear, withhold), marr ligjërisht, lidhem (associate, bind, cohere, communicate, connect, correlate, interconnexion, link, relate, tie), i jap rëndësi (reck, weight), bie (abate, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, cut, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ولع (fondness, liking, love, partiality, passion, penchant, predilection), ‏حجز (attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop, tackle), ‏حب (cereal, like, liking, lose one's heart, love, passion, pip, seed), ‏تعلق (affection, appertain, become attached, cherish, cleave, concern, crush, depend, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., touch, treasure), ‏صاحب (accompany, gossipy, keep company, owner), ‏صادر (commandeer, condemn, conscript, expropriate, impound, levy, possess, requisition, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take possession of), ‏إلتحق, ‏ألحق (annex, append, join, subjoin, suffix, supplement, tack, tag), ‏رفق (forbearance, lenience, leniency, mildness), ‏ربط (attachment, bind, connect, couple, faster, hitch, interface, involve, join, knit, knitting, lash, lash down, ligature, link, moor, relate, rope, secure, set, slur, strap, swaddle, tether, tying, unite). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

аташирам, придавам (accrete, affix, lend), приписвам (accredit, assign, credit, impute, lay, refer, set down), прилагам (adjoin, administer, apply, bestow, carry out, enclose, enforce, execute, join, practice, practise, pursue, put through, subjoin), прилепвам (accrete), привличам (align, allure, appeal, attract, draw on, entice, fetch, inveigle, invite, pull, seduce, whip up), привързвам (tie), привързвам се (cotton on), падам (come down, crash, descend, drop, drop off, fall, fall off, fall out, go down, hang, land, lapse, light, prang, ring down, roll off, set, settle, settle down, slip down, topple, tumble, tumble down), лепвам (cleave, tag), свързан съм с (belong, intercommunicate), арестувам (apprehend, arrest, bring in, bust, impound, nab, nail, nip, pick up, pinch, pull, rap, restrain, round up, run in, secure, seize, take in, take up), залепям (gum up, stick together, stick up), закрепявам (brace, embed, set), налагам запор (garnish), обиквам (cotton, take to), отдавам (devote, give, impute, pay, refer, render, set down, spend), тежа (press down, ride, scale, weigh, weigh on, weigh upon), спечелвам (acquire, carry off, engage, enlist, fetch, gain, get, get the best of it, land, make, obtain, pot, profit, purchase, win, win through), прикрепвам (fix, ship). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

附上 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

získat pro, přivázat (bind, fasten, lash down, secure, stake, tether, tie up, tuck), připojit (add, affix, annex, append, connect, hook up, link, plug in, subjoin), připevnit (affix, belay, brace, fasten, fix, Mount, pin, pin down, strap, tag, tail), přiložit (enclose, set), přilepit (affix, glue on, paste, paste on, stick), naklonit (incline, tilt). (various references)

   

Danish

  

befæste (affix, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

aanhechten (affix). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

almeti (put onto), alfiksi (affix), fiksi (affix, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

festa (affix, determine, employ, fasten, fix, hire, make fast, secure). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پیوستن (Adhere, Adjoin, Affiliate, Affix, Ally, Annex, Associate, Cement, Cleave, Cling, Connect, Couple, Join, Meet, Sort, Weld), پیوست کردن (Append), نسبت دادن (Ascribe, Attribute, Credit, Impute), چسباندن (Agglutinate, Bind, Cement, Glue, Gum, Paste, Stick), گذاشتن (Cut, Deposit, Have, Infiltrate, Leave, Let, Lodge, Place, Shunt, Stead), توقیف شدن , ضمیمه کردن (Accompany, Affix, Annex, Tack), ضبطکردن (Appropriate, Confiscate, Impound, Record, Tape, Trace), دلبسته شدن , بستن (Assess, Bang, Bar, Belt, Bind, Bloc, Block, Blockade, Choke, Clasp, Coagulate, Congeal, Cork, Curdle, Gird, Hasp, Impute, Jam, Jell, Knit, Obturate, Padlock, Pen, Picket, Plug, Seal, Shut, Steek, Tighten, Truss, Wattle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kiinnittää (affix, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure), liittää (add, enclose, incorporate, join, unite). (various references)

   

French

  

attacher (to attach), saisir, apposer, appliquer. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

fêstdwaan (affix, determine, fasten, fix, make fast, secure). (various references)

   

German

  

befestigen (affix, append, clamp, confirm, consolidate, determine, fasten, fasten on, fix, fix down, fortify, make fast, pin, reinforce, secure, stick, tie up, to clamp, to fasten, to fortify, to mount, to pin, to secure), anschließen (add, affiliate, communicate, connect, connect up, fasten, hook up, hook-up, install, lay on, lock, moor, padlock, plug in, report, tie, tie on), anheften (clinch, fasten, fasten on, fix on, peg, pin, pin down, pin up, tack, tack on, tacking, tape on, to clinch, to pin), anhängen (add, adhere, adherence, annex, append, blame, couple on, couple up, foist, foist on smb., hang, hang up, hitch on, hitch up, hook, hook on, hook up, palm off, pass on, pin on smb., stay with, stick, stick with, subscribe to, to append, to foist, to trail, trail), anbringen (affix, bring, bring home, bring with one, fasten, fetch, fit on, fit up, fix, fix on, fix up, hanging, install, locate, mount, put, put in, put on, to add, to affix, to attach, to mount). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συνδέω (ally, associate, bond, brace, clip, conjoin, connect, hook up, interlock, join, knot, leash, link, put through, span, splice, syndicate). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ליחס (attribute, refer, relate), לעקל (distrain, foreclose, impound, sequester, sequestrate), לעקול (confiscate, foreclose, seize), לחבר ז" אל ז", ל"צמי" (couple, join, link, tie in), לצרף (add, affix, associate, combine, join, tack, tag), לספוח (annex), לספח (affiliate, annex), לס וף (affiliate, annex). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

alárendel (assign, subordinate, to subordinate), odaerõsít (nail), megerõsít (approve, beef up, brace, confirm, consolidate, corroborate, defilade, depose, fasten, fix, fortify, harden, homologate, man, reinforce, strengthen, underpin, uphold, verify, vouch), lefoglal (confiscate, distrain, engage, foreclose, impound, make advances to, sequester, taken, to arrest, to book a seat, to confiscate, to distress, to embargo, to engross, to impound, to keep sy busy, to levy, to prise, to reserve, to seize, to sequester, to sequestrate, to take, took), hozzákapcsol (to attach, to hitch), elvezényel, átalárendel. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

menyelamatkan (save), mencantumkan (include, pin on, stitch), membubuhkan (add, affix, append), melamun (day-dream, quixotic, vacant). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fissare (affix, appoint, arrange, assess, assign, be fixed, bind, block, book, designate, destine, determine, establish, eye, fasten, fix, gaze, implant, make, make fast, make firm, name, peer, pin, pin down, plant, reserve, rivet, root, schedule, secure, set, settle, stare, stipulate), affigere (put, put onto), attaccare (adherence, affix, annex, append, assail, assault, attack, become attached, begin, bind, catch on, cling, connect, engage, fasten, fix, foist, glue, hang, hitch, infect, lead off, link, pass on, pin, pitch into, plug in, put up, stick, stick in, strike, strike up, tie). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アセンブリー工業 (adagio, adapter, adaptive, assemble, assembly industry, association, Atari, attache case, attachment, attack, attacker). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アタッチ . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

부착물. (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, fastening, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, bite, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, nab, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stick, stitch, stitch up, tooth). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

tillegge, knytte. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attachay

   

Polish

  

ustalić, umocować. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

atribuir (accredit, allot, ascribe, assign, attribute, impute, put, put on, refer), afixar (affix, placard, plaster, post, stick), agregar-se, ajuntar (add, assemble, band, gang, gather, join, rejoin), amarrar (bind, cable, connect, hitch, join, knot, moor, mouse, secure, string, tie, tie up, truss), anexar (adhibit, affix, annex, annexe, append, enclose, inclose), apreender (apprehend, arrest, capture, realize, seize), associação (affiliation, association, combination, conference, federation, fellowship, fusion, link-up, partnership, society, union), atar (band, band together, bandage, bind, connect, fasten, join, knot, leash, rope, tie, tie up, truss), acoplar (couple), conectar (connect), vincular (bind, entail, link, tie), conquistar (acquire, attract, beat, cob, conquer, subdue, subjugate, win), designar (appoint, ascribe, choose, define, denominate, design, designate, destine, determine, elect, mark, name, nominate, pick out, prefer), embargar (arrest, embargo, hold, levy), incorporar-se, juntar (accumulate, add, adjoin, affix, amass, annex, annexe, append, assemble, brace, bulk, cohere, collect, conjoin, connect, couple, enclose, fund, gather, get-together, halve, heap, herd, huddle, inclose, inosculate, join, joining, joint, mass, mix, muster, piece, piece together, put to, put together, rake, reunite, run-on, seam, splice, stash, subjoin, tack, unite, weld), recair sobre, referir (account, attribute, give an account, point, quote, recur, refer, relate, report, state, tautologize, tell), segurar (assure, bolster, clamp, cling, clip, ensure, grapple, guy, hang onto, hitch, hold, hold back, indemnify, insure, pillar, pin, secure, seize, sustain, take, take up, underset, unrein, uphold), unir (adjoin, ally, band, cement, compact, conjoin, conjugate, connect, couple, dowel, fasten, fay, fish, fuse, gather, hold together, incorporate, inosculate, join, knit, link, marry, mate, put together, splice, team up, unite, wed, yoke), colar (affix, beads, bind, bung, chain, collate, crib, glue, gum, paste, stick). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

fixa (accommodate, adapt, adjust, affix, anchor, appoint, arrange, arrest, ascertain, assess, assign, attune, bed, bind, bond, brace, clamp, clasp, define, determine, dog, establish, fasten, find, fit, fix, hitch, immobilize, impact, imprint, indicate, ingrain, lay, make fast, Mount, nail, nail down, name, nominate, pin, pin down, place, put on, recognize, regulate, schedule, secure, settle, stamp, state, stick, stiffen, stipulate, strengthen, tie, trace, tune). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

арестовывать (arrest, arrested, detain), пристраивать (add), присоединять (affiliate, anx, join, tack), прикреплять (fasten, tack), привязывать (chain, fasten, make fast, rope, tie up). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vezati (associate, band, bind, confine, connect, couple, knot, lace, lash, link, moor, tie), privremno uključiti u sastav, prilepiti (post), prikačiti (append, hold up, hook, hook on, impute, pin, pin up, stick), pridati, pričvrstiti (affix, fasten, hitch, moor, nail, seal, stay). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fijar (affix, allowance, arrange, assign, bed, determine, fasten, fix, focus, make fast, name, pin up, plaster, post, post up, put up, schedule, secure, set, settle, take down, take to, take up, term), aplicar (administer, allow, apply, brush over, enforce, put on, to add, to attach), adjuntar (add, annex, append, enclose, inclose, include, subjoin). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fästa (affix, allfix, append, cinch, commit, determine, fasten, fix, hitch, make fast, secure, stick, tag, tail), bifoga (add, adjoin, annex, append, enclose, inclose, tack to), anknyta (connect, join, relate, unite). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เพิ่ม (gain, heighten), ทำให้ติ"กัน, ติ"กัน, มีความสัมพันธ์กับ. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yüklenmek (be stuck with, embark, lay on, lie heavy on smb., load, load up, shoulder, sit upon, stick it on, take upon oneself, undertake), tutturmak (be hung up on, bind, bond, braid, clasp, clip, fasten, hasp, infix, insist, latch, pin, rub in, seam together, stereotype, stick, stick together, tack, tack together), takmak (affix, bother, fix, fixate, give a damn, hang, hang on, hitch, hook, infix, set, snag, stick, stock, string, thread, wear), iliştirmek (affix, append, buckle, buckle on, buckle up, enclose, fasten, inclose, subjoin), haczetmek (confiscate, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, garnish, garnishee, impound, levy, seise, sequester, sequestrate, vest), el koymak (appropriate, arrest, capture, commandeer, condemn, distrain, distrain on, distrain up, distress, embargo, hold, impound, impress, levy, requisition, seise, seize, sequester, sequestrate, take the action, usurp, vest), eklemek (add, adjoin, affix, annex, append, insert, interlard, interpolate, join, join together, joint, link, link up, piece, put in, put on, put to, run in, slap on, splice, subjoin, suffix, superimpose, supplement, tack, throw in, write in), bağlanmak (adhere, be attached to, be committed, be stuck on, be tied, be wedded to, cling, conjoin, connect, engage, fasten, hang, have down on smb., hitch, hold on, lace, Wed, yoke, yoke together), bağlamak (affiliate, assign, attribute, band, bandage, belay, bend, bind, bond, brace, braid, clasp, colligate, concatenate, conjoin, connect, copulate, cord, couple, do up, engage, enthral, enthrall, fasten, fasten up, fix, fixate, grapple, guy, hitch, hook on, hook up, infix, interconnect, interlink, interlock, inthral, join, knit, knit together, knit up, knot, lace, lace up, lash, lash down, leash, ligature, link, link up, lock, lock up, mediatize, oblige, put through, rivet, rope, settle, string, subordinate, switch to, tether, tie, tie down, tie up, truss, unite, Wed). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

яelmemek (attach with glue, glue, seal with glue). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

скрипляти, надавати (accord, add, afford, allow, endow, give, impart, lend), арештовувати (bone, pull), бути властивим (inhere, pertain), бути дійсним, прихиляти, прикріпляти (affix, append), прикомандировувати, прикладати (apply, appose), призначати (administer, administrate, affect, allocate, allot, appoint, appropriate, assign, consign, constitute, design, direct, fix, intend, make, mark out, mean, name, number, order, put, tell off), приписувати (accredit, allege, appoint, arrogate, ascribe, assign, attribute, credit, credit with, enjoin, foist, ordain, prescribe, refer). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

atafaelu (confiscate, distrain), ymlynu (adhere, cleave to), gosod (affix, allot, appoint, artificial, assign, false, let, place, put, set), glynu (adhere, cleave, stick). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Attach

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

affigere, aperis, api, apis, applico, apta, aptas, apti, aptum, aptus, circumligata, circumligatum, commiserat, commiserit, commiserunt, commisi, commisit, commissum, commissura, commissuram, commissuras, committant, committe, committebant, committenda, committentes, committere, committit, committitis, committunt, defigunt, defixae, defixi, defixisti, defixit, defixos, iniungetur, subiungo. (various references)

Old French900-1400

estachier, relier. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Attach

Derivations

Words beginning with "attach": attachable, attache, attached, attacher, attachers, attaches, attaching, attachment, attachments. (additional references)

Words ending with "attach": reattach. (additional references)

Words containing "attach": nonattached, nonattachment, nonattachments, reattached, reattaches, reattaching, reattachment, reattachments, unattached. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Attach" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Antech, Aptech, Artech, Ashchuch, atatch, atta, attaca, Attacca, attachs, attact, attatch, attch, atticy, Attoh, Attta, Atucha, autotech, Catnach, datatech. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Attach"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "attach" (pronounced uta"kh)
4u t a" khdetach, reattach.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Attach

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-h-t-t"

-2 letters: acta, chat, tach, tact, that.

-3 letters: aah, act, aha, att, cat, hat, tat.

-4 letters: aa, ah, at, ha, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-h-t-t"
 

+1 letter: attache.

 

+2 letters: attached, attacher, attaches, chapatti, reattach.

 

+3 letters: apathetic, asthmatic, attachers, attaching, cathartic, chapattis, chatoyant, clathrate, ecthymata, tracheate.

 

+4 letters: anchovetta, anthracite, asthmatics, attachable, attachment, cathartics, chapatties, chatoyants, clathrates, cohabitant, deathwatch, mathematic, pathetical, reattached, reattaches, theatrical, tracheated, tragacanth, unattached.

 

+5 letters: aesthetical, anaesthetic, anchovettas, anthracites, anthracitic, anticathode, atheistical, attachments, catastrophe, catholicate, chaetognath, cohabitants, gnatcatcher, intrathecal, mathematics, metaethical, nonattached, parachutist, reattaching, tetradrachm, theatricals, thiocyanate, throatlatch, tragacanths, weathercast.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Historic
10. Quotations: Fiction
11. Quotations: Non-fiction
12. Quotations: Speeches
13. Usage Frequency
14. Expressions
15. Expressions: Internet
16. Translations: Modern
17. Translations: Ancient
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Bibliography


  

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