Attach
To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
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; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
To take, seize, or lay hold of.
To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
To adhere; to be attached.
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
An attachment.
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Attach Quotations
We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.
Tony Robbins
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
Blaise Pascal
I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
Tony Dungy
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
Charles Babbage
The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.
Fredrik Bajer
Love is a mess, at best, and I figure it can be very real in spite of all the things people try to attach to it.
Sean Penn
I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.
Jacques Santer
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them.
Ali ibn Abi Talib
Attach Translations
attach in Afrikaans is vasstel, vasmaak, bepaal
attach in Dutch is aanhechten
attach in French is attachent, appliquer, apposer, attachez, attachons
attach in Italian is legare saldamente, affigere, legamento
attach in Latin is subiungo
attach in Norwegian is tillegge, knytte
attach in Portuguese is anexo
attach in Spanish is aplicar, afirmar, liar, adjuntar, fijar, aocrrar
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