Attach \At*tach"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Attached}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Attaching}.] [OF. atachier, F. attacher, to tie or fasten: cf. Celt. tac, tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. {Attack}, and see {Tack}.] 1. 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.
The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. --Paley.
A huge stone to which the cable was attached. --Macaulay.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Incapable of attaching a sensible man. --Miss Austen.
God . . . by various ties attaches man to man. --Cowper.
4. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
Top this treasure a curse is attached. --Bayard Taylor.
5. To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] --Shak.
6. 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.
The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. --Miss Yonge.
{Attached column} (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.
Syn: To affix; bind; tie; fasten; connect; conjoin; subjoin; annex; append; win; gain over; conciliate.
Attach \At*tach"\, v. i. 1. To adhere; to be attached.
The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. --Brougham.
2. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. --Cooley.
Attach \At*tach"\, n. An attachment. [Obs.] --Pope.
The markets attach particular weight to the Social Democrats' policies because of their strong lead in opinion polls.
The European Security Forum is evidence of the weight that blue chip companies attach to data security.
The sharpening stones, which come in several degrees of fineness, attach to a guide rod which feeds through a hole in the jig.
He said that congressional Democrats would merely attach the same plant-closing provision to subsequent legislation _ if a veto were upheld _ and said that lawmakers should not "play with this cat" any longer.
The aid measure could also be slowed by unrelated amendments that lawmakers might attach to it.
An employer can't deduct contributions to such a trust from corporate taxes, and the funds aren't protected if the company's creditors come looking for assets to attach.
One hypothesis is that a chain of sugars found only in type A blood may help H. pylori attach itself to the stomach lining. It is not yet known whether eradicating H. pylori affects gastric cancer (as opposed to lymphoma).
The vice president has never said how much of an increase in the minimum wage he supported. "He has not and will not attach any numbers to that," Fuller said.
Retailers and industry analysts attach greater significance to tallies that exclude newly opened stores.
President Reagan cleared the way for approval of the debt-ceiling extension by agreeing to attach a change in the budget process to a longer-term extension that government leaders hope will be enacted before the end of the two-month period.
But there had been a debate inside his administration on whether to attach some conditions on the renewal requiring that China improve its humanrights and arms-proliferation record or lose its preferential trade treatment.
Rep. William Dannemeyer, R-Calif., earlier this month narrowly won an Energy and Commerce subcommittee vote to attach his one-stage licensing amendment to the NRC spending bill for the 1990 fiscal year that starts Oct. 1.
But the people who follow merger activity attach little significance to the figures.
"The visit underlies the vital importance both countries attach to the U.S.-Japanese relationship and its contribution to the preservation of peace and prosperity in the Pacific and throughout the world," the White House said.
Senators voted 97-2 to attach the package to a measure appropriating $26.4 billion for the Transportation Department and highway and airport trust funds for the year beginning Sunday.
We attach importance to the implementation of the work plan recently adopted by the ICAO Council for this purpose.
It is understood, however, that the administration has been forced to give up efforts to attach a provision which included environment and labour rules as negotiating objectives.
Filers are to attach copies of their W-2 wage reports and sign, date and mail the forms.
I attach a premium to them."
Adams' plan, which he wanted to attach to a Pentagon budget bill, would have given Congress 15 days to vote to disapprove that policy.
The lures were later primed to prevent them from swelling and cracking when they got wet. Only then did factory hands paint them and attach hooks. Every color represented a manufacturing step, including the addition of gill marks around the face.
The Bush administration's plan is expected to substitute for an amendment that Sen. Slade Gorton (R., Wash.) has proposed to attach to a bill that would beef up the CFTC.
The government contends that the new law is not piracy because no profit is allowed, as if the pope were to attach a rider to the Seventh Commandment making its violation depend on personal gain and not the theft itself.
The Chinese "clearly attach great importance" to their own satellite launching service, which could suffer serious losses if Washington does not issue export licenses for U.S. communications satellites, Carlucci told reporters.
Teachers also should beware of the importance a homeless child may attach to seemingly meaningless possessions.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, R-Kan., has proposed a $47 million Contra aid package and has said he wants to attach it to the supplemental spending measure.
Receptors are specific places to which drugs and natural substances attach themselves to produce their effects.
A number of them have begun to bombard Rafidain's only non-Middle East branch here with lawsuits seeking to attach assets.
Senators argued that by saving most of the needed veterans money for a later bill, they could attach to that measure spending for programs they favor.
St Germain told reporters he would attach the bill to legislation granting banks new powers, including the ability to underwrite certain securities.