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attach
English
Etymology
From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??tæt?/
- Rhymes: -æt?
- Hyphenation: at?tach
Verb
attach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)
- (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
- Synonyms: connect, annex, affix, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
- Antonyms: detach, unfasten, disengage, separate; see also Thesaurus:disconnect
- 1856, page 60 of "The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volumes 3-4" by Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay
- A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later
- (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.
- Synonyms: cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere
- 1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy
- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
- Dower will attach.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Cooley to this entry?)
- 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.
- attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God […] by various ties attaches man to man.
- To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- 1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature
- To this treasure a curse is attached.
- (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
- (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]
- 1610, The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, act 3 scene 2
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- 1868, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Cameos from English History
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:
Derived terms
- attachable
- attachment
- attacher
- get attached
Related terms
- attachment
Translations
Anagrams
- chatta
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culch
English
Alternative forms
- sculch, scultch, kulch, cultch
Noun
culch (uncountable)
- The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves; a collection of such detritus, accumulated on land, to drop in the sea to build up oyster beds.
- (US, New England, Maine) An accumulation of small items of little current value -- materials, broken items, miscellaneous fasteners -- for possible future use.
- (US, New England, Maine) Junk or debris.
Adjective
culch (not comparable)
- (US, New England, Maine) Location where potentially useful junk items are collected: culch corner, culch drawer, culch pile.
Verb
culch (third-person singular simple present culches, present participle culching, simple past and past participle culched)
- To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments; to sort shellfish or fish catch by size -- most often oysters -- so as to throw back the smallest to grow bigger and breed.
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