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attachment
English
Etymology
From French attachement, equivalent to attach +? -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??tæt?m?nt/
Noun
attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)
- The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
- A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
- I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
- A dependence, especially a strong one.
- A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
- The means by which something is physically attached.
- (computing) A file sent along with an email.
- (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
- attachment of earnings
- (meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
- 2009, Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics, published in the Journal of Lightning Research, volume 1
Derived terms
- attachment disorder
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English attachment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??t?t?m?nt/, /??t?t?m?nt/
- Hyphenation: at?tach?ment
Noun
attachment m or n (plural attachments)
- attachment (to an email)
- Synonym: bijlage
- (psychology) attachment, personal bonding
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attack
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French attaque, derived from the verb attaquer, from Italian attaccare (“to join, attach”) (used in attaccare battaglia (“to join battle”)), from Frankish *stakka (“stick”). Doublet of attach.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US, General Australian) IPA(key): /??tæk/, [??t?æk]
- Rhymes: -æk
Noun
attack (plural attacks)
- An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
- An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by physical, verbal, emotional, or other assault.
- A time in which one attacks; the offence of a battle.
- (informal, by extension) The beginning of active operations on anything.
- Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.
- (computing) An attempt to exploit a vulnerability in a computer system.
- birthday attack; denial-of-service attack
- (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
- (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane of the net.
- Synonyms: hit, spike
- (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
- (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
- An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
- (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that onset.
- Antonyms: decay, release
- (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level (e.g. an audio waveform representing a snare drum hit would feature a very fast attack, whereas that of a wave washing to shore would feature a slow attack).
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Hyponyms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
attack (third-person singular simple present attacks, present participle attacking, simple past and past participle attacked)
- (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
- (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines, because it typesets into less space than "criticize" or similar).
- (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- Hydrofluoric acid […] attacks the glass.
- 1866, Balfour Stewart, An Elementary Treatise on Heat
- (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
- (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
- (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
- (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
- (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
- (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.
- (chemistry) (Of a chemical species) To approach a chemical species or bond in order to form a bond with it.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:attack
Translations
Further reading
- attack in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- attack in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- attack at OneLook Dictionary Search
Swedish
Etymology
From French attaque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?tak/
Noun
attack c
- attack; an attempt to cause damage
- attack; offense of a battle
Declension
Synonyms
- anfall
Related terms
- attackera
Derived terms
- hjärtattack
Anagrams
- tackat
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