attach
English
/əˈtætʃ/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
- (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- 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.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- (obsolete) To arrest, seize.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French atachier (attach) derived from Frankish *stakka (stick, stake).
Origin
Frankish
*stakka
Gloss
stick, stake
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- attachability English
- attachable English
- attachableness English
- attachably English
- attacher English
- attachest English
- attacheth English
- attachment English
- chemoattachment English
- cryoattachment English
- deattach English
- disattach English
- misattachment English
- nonattachable English
- nonattachment English
- overattachment English
- postattachment English
- preattachment English
- re-attach English
- reattachable English
- reattachment English
- staccato English
- unattachable English
- unattachment English
- attaccare Italian
- staccare Italian
- attachment Dutch, Flemish
- attachement French
- attacher French
- *stakkaz Proto-Germanic
- atachier Old French
- destachier Old French
- attatchi Norman
- *stakka Frankish
- *stekan Frankish