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attach
at‧tach S2 W2 AC /əˈtætʃ/ verb [Word Family: noun: attachment, detachment; adjective: attached ≠ unattached ≠ detached, detachable; verb: attach ≠ detach] [date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : atachier, estachier, from estache 'sharp post'] 1. [TRANSITIVE] to fasten or connect one object to another SYN fix attach something to something ▪ Attach a recent photograph to your application form. ▪ a small battery attached to a little loudspeaker the attached form/cheque/leaflet etc ▪ Please fill in and return the attached reply slip.
2. be attached to somebody/something to like someone or something very much, because you have known them or had them for a long time: ▪ It’s easy to become attached to the children you work with.
3. attach importance/significance etc to something to believe that something is important: ▪ People attach too much importance to economic forecasts.
4. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE] if blame attaches or is attached to someone, they are responsible for something bad that happens: ▪ No blame can be attached to Roy for the incident.
5. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE] if a quality, feeling, idea etc attaches or is attached to a person, thing, or event, it is connected with them attach to ▪ It’s easy to let the emotions attached to one situation spill over into others.
6. be attached to something a) to work for part of a particular organization, especially for a short period of time: ▪ He was attached to the foreign affairs department of a Japanese newspaper. b) to be part of a bigger organization: ▪ The Food Ministry is attached to the Ministry of Agriculture.
7. [TRANSITIVE] to connect a document or file to an email so that you can send them together ⇨ attachment
8. attach yourself to somebody to join someone and spend a lot of time with them, often without being invited or welcome: ▪ A young man from Canada had attached himself to Sam.
9. attach a condition (to something) to allow something to happen, but only if someone agrees to do a particular thing or accept a particular idea: ▪ When approving a merger, the commission can attach conditions.
10. attach a label to somebody/something to think of or describe someone or something as being a particular thing, especially in a very general way: ▪ You can’t really attach a label to this type of art.
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a legend is attached to sth (=connected with it) ▪ The cave has an unusual legend attached to it. attach a condition (=say that an agreement depends on something) ▪ Only one condition was attached to this agreement. attach a copy of sth (=in an email) ▪ I’m attaching a copy of the schedule. attach a file (=send it with an email) ▪ Sorry, I forgot to attach the file. attach importance to sth (=think it is important) ▪ She attached great importance to loyalty. attach significance to sth (=give something importance) ▪ They say they don't attach much significance to opinion polls. securely locked/fastened/attached/held etc ▪ All firearms should be kept securely locked in a cabinet. stigma attached to ▪ There is a social stigma attached to single parenthood. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADVERB securely ▪ Make sure that the identity labels are securely attached, and take them out to the heeling-in trench. ▪ The hardest thing about snowshoeing is getting the tethered shoe attached securely to your feet. ▪ From its rear chassis, two heavy chains were securely attached to the steel bars of the gates. still ▪ The head, still attached, was twisted to one side. ▪ I am still attached to it, but I try not to look out the window.... ▪ You're tilted slightly, and spinning, but you're still attached. ▪ It was still attached to my head. ▪ Only a short piece was still attached to the bell, and the rat was still hanging on to it. ▪ But, the importance still attached to traditional familial connections provided a readymade network for recruitment. ▪ The flag was still attached to its pin, which was buried in the sole of Prentice's shoe. ▪ In that field was the access door from deep within the tank, a piece of the beam still attached. to ▪ It's further complicated by the wire it's attached to. ▪ They too attach to very specific parts of the limb. ▪ The Bridge is smooth, nothing to attach to. ▪ No virtue attached to that though. NOUN chain ▪ It was attached to a rusty chain hidden in the bracken. ▪ Ask a grown-up to attach a hooked chain to the centre top bar. ▪ His hands are on the table, but they are held together by manacles, to which a chain is attached. ▪ She too was calm and stood patiently while he attached the chain to a length of rope around her neck. condition ▪ The councils have the power to attach terms and conditions to the provision of funds to any institution. ▪ Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money. ▪ Since nobody else had been found, Hayling offered Thornton the Chairmanship, but the executive attached two humiliating conditions. end ▪ The wires had no detonators attached to the ends of them. form ▪ The main point is that prose varies a great deal in the amount of aesthetic interest which attaches to linguistic form. ▪ They have to be reported on Schedule H, which can be attached to either Form 1040 or 1040A. ▪ Moreover, whether or not conditions are attached to debt relief, they will certainly be attached to other forms of aid. importance ▪ How much importance was attached to these initiatives in terms of overall company strategy? 5. ▪ The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values. ▪ Such is the importance attached to an inquiry of this kind. ▪ Seven bookings - four for Millwall and three for the Hammers - reflected the importance both clubs attach to the fixture. ▪ This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process. ▪ This partly accounts for the importance which farmers attach to cultivating their workers' loyalty. ▪ Therapists vary in the importance they attach to background and childhood experiences of the parents. ▪ Special importance shall be attached to an active labour market policy, such as vocational training and retraining. label ▪ Make sure that the identity labels are securely attached, and take them out to the heeling-in trench. ▪ It is impossible to isolate parts of the system of government to which the label may authoritatively be attached. ▪ Annotations or labels may be attached to the clones and probes. meaning ▪ What meaning can we attach to spatial position? ▪ Their collective utterances may help us to understand the meaning they wished to attach to this favoured term. ▪ External attributions may take two forms: That there is no meaning to be attached to the members' actions. ▪ In each case a different meaning is attached to the act of lighting a candle. ▪ The meanings and purposes they attach to this behaviour are largely inconsequential. ▪ Exactly what meaning can be attached to the other histories, in which we do not exist, is not clear. name ▪ His job is to unearth bodies, attach names to their bones and return the remains to their families. ▪ But it makes the whole idea of the endowment more real to attach a name to the donor. ▪ The Ross Perot candidate petition is attached to a name. ▪ To attract attention to your project, it is best to attach a reputable research name and talent to your proposal. side ▪ They are small grains with a little wing attached on each side, which helps them spread by the wind. ▪ The blame attaches to both sides of industry. ▪ Pipes and threaded connectors attached to the back sides serve as handles for technicians who carry and install the 700-pound panels. ▪ Additionally, these straps can sometimes be used to attach extra side pockets. ▪ A barn was attached on the left side and the whole place stood in the centre of a stone courtyard. ▪ Cover the batten and attach the opposite side of touch-and-close fastener, as Method 1. significance ▪ For on it depends the significance to be attached to the revolution. ▪ And what significance should we attach to this development? ▪ I keep coming back to the idea that everything can have some significance attached to it. ▪ What significance does Hall attach to them? stigma ▪ There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership, too. ▪ The social stigma attached to epilepsy 3. ▪ There's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum, as if she hasn't a brain between the ears! ▪ In a print society, enormous stigma is attached to the adult nonreader. ▪ In Britain, more so than in other countries, science fiction has always had a stigma attached to it. ▪ There's no stigma attached to being half-cut on the streets. ▪ As I've always been blonde I forget about the stigma attached to the colour. ▪ Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled. string ▪ However, the billions come with strings attached. ▪ Local officials sometimes complained about adverse decisions and strings attached to the grant but generally seemed satisfied. ▪ It's found money, no strings attached. ▪ We have freedom and no strings attached. ▪ But there are strings attached, and a fresh bureaucratic and political obstacle course lies ahead. ▪ The utility of the new revenue as well as its potential for conflict hinged on the strings attached to its use. ▪ Not only in agriculture, but in industry generally, grant money should have strings attached. ▪ Few strings are attached to the Enterprise Allowance Scheme. unit ▪ This was the Padre attached to the unit. ▪ Political officers would be attached to units who worked in close co-operation with line officers. value ▪ The payment was a symbolic expression of the legitimacy of the marriage and of the value that was attached to it. ▪ Who establishes the value attached to different resources and goods? ▪ In other words, a scarcity value attaches at present to the possession of a licence. ▪ Instead, our desires reflect the collection of values that we attach to our humanity. ▪ The low value attached to girl children is suggested by Rahima, a laundress who lives in Dhaka. wall ▪ Buy one which attaches to the wall with hooks. ▪ They also can be attached to a wall with special brackets or used as bookshelf speakers. ▪ With my head down I manoeuvred the metal ring over the iron hook which was attached to the wall bracket. ▪ Hanging about a foot from attached wall mounts, these sturdy steel bells would grace any garden. ▪ The largest of these was attached to the inner wall of the heart by a thread of flesh. ▪ But normally, they are attached to the wall of the house. ▪ He found one attached to the wall near a long table; it was half-filled with crumpled, scratched-out cable forms. weight ▪ We allow the individual to attach different weights as follows. ▪ Fukuyama is unlikely to attach much weight to Liberation theology, which he would no doubt classify as a doomed subspecies of Marxism-Leninism. ▪ The other lies on the tank bottom and is attached to a lead weight. wire ▪ Use a similar hooked connection to attach the Earth wire and the wire leading from S1 to the solder tag. ▪ In the 1980s mechanical hearts were attached by wires and tubes to machinery outside the body. ▪ An oval drill head was attached to a flexible wire and threaded into a blood vessel in his leg. ▪ A curl of green pressed powder was burning on the table, attached to a wire stand. ▪ The Thing didn't have to be attached to any wires. ▪ The 1M potentiometer should be prepared by attaching short wires to the centre and one of its outer terminals. VERB become ▪ They are smaller molecules than proteins, so they have to become attached to a protein molecule before they are activated. ▪ Glycosylated hemoglobin refers to the specific red cell hemoglobin A types to which a glucose molecule becomes irreversibly attached. ▪ After some time the roots become firmly attached. ▪ Once these feelings are put into words, the family is on the road to becoming attached to the newborn. ▪ She had not allowed herself to become too attached to the child. ▪ It then becomes more firmly attached and receives nourishment from the fish by root-like processes. ▪ Each tribe responded and became attached to its own specific landscape, seeing particular lakes and trees as sacred. PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES no strings (attached) ▪ Howard's agreed to lend me the money with no strings attached. ▪ A boyfriend offered me a weekend in Amman, with no strings attached. ▪ A lift home, with no strings. ▪ How he must have wished to have been in the puppet's place, no policies, work and no strings attached. ▪ It's found money, no strings attached. ▪ She reminded me that we both knew the deal - no strings. ▪ We have freedom and no strings attached. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A copy of my resume is attached to this letter. ▪ Get your receipt, attach it, and send it in. ▪ I've attached the latest spreadsheet for you to look at. ▪ It took a couple of minutes to attach the trailer to the back of the truck. ▪ The doctor attached a tiny monitor to the baby's head. ▪ The doctor will attach a monitor to your stomach so that she can listen to the baby's heart. ▪ The references and diagrams were attached to the document. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But Acheson took a second careful look and saw a few bright specks attached to the rod. ▪ Now processors say they are being offered plastic waste with a dowry of £50-100 a tonne attached. ▪ The board needs little preparation since once the skeg is attached only the daggerboard has to be slid into its case. ▪ These oligonucleotides were attached to Dynal magnetic beads coated with streptavidin according to the manufacturer's instructions. ▪ They were transferring it to living quarters attached to the hospital. ▪ This is the day by which your debtor must return the reply form which is attached to the summons to the court.
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