Word Finder - attached

definition

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

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An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

synonyms

• affix
• annex
• connect
• unite

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To adhere; to be attached.

synonyms

• cling
• stick

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

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Dower will attach.

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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.

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

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To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.

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to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

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To take, seize, or lay hold of.

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To arrest, seize.

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Connected; joined.

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Fond of (used with to).

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I'm very attached to my pets.

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In a romantic or sexual relationship.

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As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.

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Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.

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In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.

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Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

Mr. Marsh was in a coma and attached to life support machines.

She was attached to the arm of good-looking man wearing a business suit.

By the time he had attached a handle to this sword he was having much trouble to breathe, as the charm of the Sorcerer was beginning to take effect.

You didn't want to get attached and then have to give the baby up.

It was still her house and there were a lot of good memories attached to it.

Another vehicle came down the hill, a red flashing light attached to the top.

A round table in the center had an access pad attached to the top, so she passed her armband over it.

He was with her physically and attached emotionally, yet his thoughts were severed.

Anyway, she's just a stray that wandered up one day and attached herself to us.

Like a cat, she had attached herself not to the people but to the home.

Recommended local hospices attached to report.

C. Borner has stated that the unpaired piercer is attached directly to the base of the left maxilla.

For the most part they sat quietly in their places and were silent, or, if they walked about and talked, attached themselves to someone younger.

Who would have thought he would become attached to a child that was neither his own blood nor male?

Pulling his Winchester from a boot attached to the side of the wagon, he walked toward her.

This leash, attached to your wrist, bears most of your weight.

When the air has forced the glass to take the form of the mould, the mould is opened and the blower gives the blowing iron with the bottle attached to it to the " wetter off."

Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I made a slip-noose, which I attached to its end, and, letting it down carefully, passed it over the knob of the handle, and drew it by a line along the birch, and so pulled the axe out again.

A fine brindled cow with a large udder was attached to the cart behind.

I suppose it helps keep the carrier from getting attached to the baby.

At Naples there grew up a Cartesian school, of which the best known members are Michel Angelo Fardella (1650-1708) and Cardinal Gerdil (1718-1802), both of whom, however, attached themselves to the characteristic views of Malebranche.

A map was attached on which several great equatorial lakes are shown, and the empire of Monomwezi or Unyamwezi is laid down.

Plicatulae have been found attached to these coprolites, showing that they were already hard bodies when lying at the bottom of the Chalk ocean.

He resigned this post in 1820, upon the death of his wife, to whom he was fondly attached, and, though making some efforts to connect himself with journalism, spent the years immediately succeeding in idleness, residing for the most part in Paris.

The os articulare bears on its inner side the inner mandibular process which serves for the insertion of part of the digastric muscle or opener of the mouth; another portion of this muscle is attached to the os angulare, which frequently forms a FIG.

These engines have a pole projecting horizontally in front of them, or are attached to a " polecar " having such a pole.

Through the foramen passes a peduncle, by which the animal is in many species attached to submarine objects during at least a portion of its existence.

Piperic acid differs from piperonylic acid by the group C4H 4, and it was apparent that these carbon atoms must be attached to the carbon atom which appears in the carboxyl group of piperonylic acid, for if they were directly attached to the benzene ring polycarboxylic acids would result in oxidation.

It must be remembered that the Arabs, who inhabit an extremely hot country, are very fully clothed, while the Fuegians at the extremity, of Cape Horn, exposed to all the rigours of an antarctic climate, have, as sole protection, a skin attached to the body by cords, so that it can be shifted to either side according to the direction of the wind.

On the importance attached to the beard, see Ency.

Ear-rings (Evwrta, X¦o13ta, Exckt'7pES) of gold, silver, or bronze plated with gold, and frequently ornamented with pearls, precious stones, or enamel, were worn attached to the lobes of the ear.

The paenula, which was the garment most commonly worn, especially by soldiers when engaged on peace duties, was an oblong piece of cloth with a hole in the centre for the neck; a hood was usually attached to the back.

In 1807 he was attached to the Hon.

About 940 the manor is said to have been given to the abbey of Ely by Oswy and Leoflede; the abbot held it in 1086; and it became attached to the see of Ely with the other possessions of the monastery.

Ventral fins below or in front of the pectorals, the pelvic bones posterior to the clavicular symphysis and only loosely attached to it by ligament.

Nevertheless, gangrene is nothing more or less than the putrefactive fermentation of an animal tissue still attached to the body.

The nucleus in its vegetative stage shows a fine network throughout containing in the meshes the so-called nuclear-sap; attached to the network are the chromosomes, in the form of small irregular masses, which have a strong affinity for the " basic dyes."

The recognition of the dangers accompanying the drinking of polluted water or milk, or of those attached to the breathing of a germ-polluted atmosphere, has been the natural sequence of an improved knowledge of pathology in its bacteriological relationships.

On the institution of the Ecole Normale at Paris in 1795 he was sent to teach in it, and was afterwards attached to the Ecole Polytechnique, where he occupied the chair of analysis.

To the west are the remains of an extensive building of the Roman period, probably a palaestra with a small Odeum attached.

Boerhaave attached great importance to the study of the medical classics, but rather treated them historically than quoted them as canonical authorities.

The latter had, in neglecting anatomy, neglected the most solid basis for studying the natural history of disease; though perhaps it was less from choice than because his practice, as he was not attached to a hospital, gave him no opportunities.

The situation itself and its accompanying privileges were what Voltaire chiefly aimed at, but there was a salary of two thousand livres attached, and he had the year before come in for three times as much by the death of his brother.

Hyde Park, to the west, belonged originally to the manor of Hyde, which was attached to Westminster Abbey, but was taken by Henry VIII.

Kensington Gardens, originally attached to Kensington Palace, were subsequently much extended; they are magnificently timbered, and contain plantations of rare shrubs and flowering trees.

Receipts were attached to all reports, mostly for inexpensive meals and an occasional beer or two.

More importance is to be attached to his Nosology or Classification of Diseases.

The name Bridewell came from a well near the Fleet (New Bridge Street), dedicated to St Bride, and was attached to a house built by Henry VIII.

The County Council also aids numerous separate schools of art, both general and special, such as the Royal School of Art Needlework and the School of Art Woodcarving; the City and Guilds Institute maintains similar establishments at some of its colleges, and art schools are also generally attached to the polytechnics.

The Mercers' School, Dowgate, was originally attached to the hospital of St Thomas of Acon, which was sold to the Mercers' Company in 1522, on condition that the company should maintain the school.