different between attachment vs desire

English

Etymology

From French attachement, equivalent to attach +? -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??tæt?m?nt/

Noun

attachment (countable and uncountable, plural attachments)

1. The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
2. A strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.

   I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!

3. A dependence, especially a strong one.
4. A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
5. The means by which something is physically attached.
6. (computing) A file sent along with an email.
7. (law) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.

   attachment of earnings

8. (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)

1. attachment (to an email)

   Synonym: bijlage

2. (psychology) attachment, personal bonding

English

Etymology

From Middle English desire (noun) and desiren (verb), from Old French desirer, desirrer, from Latin d?s?der? (“to long for, desire, feel the want of, miss, regret”), apparently from de- + sidus (in the phrase de sidere, "from the stars") in connection with astrological hopes. Compare consider. Compare also desiderate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/
• (General American) enPR: d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, d?-z?r?, d?-z???r, IPA^(key): /d??za??/, /d??za??/, /di?za??/, /di?za??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Hyphenation: de?sire

Verb

desire (third-person singular simple present desires, present participle desiring, simple past and past participle desired)

1. To want; to wish for earnestly.
2. To put a request to (someone); to entreat.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XIII:

     And when they founde no cause of deeth in hym, yet desired they Pilate to kyll him.
3. To want emotionally or sexually.

4. To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
5. To require; to demand; to claim.
   • c. 1580, Edmund Spenser, The Teares of the Muses

     A doleful case desires a doleful song.

6. To miss; to regret.
   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     She shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies.

Related terms

Translations

Noun

desire (usually uncountable, plural desires)

1. (countable) Someone or something wished for.

2. (uncountable) Strong attraction, particularly romantic or sexual.

3. (uncountable) The feeling of desiring; an eager longing for something.

4. (uncountable) Motivation. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• (one or thing wished for): wanna, want-to; See also Thesaurus:desire
• (motivation): wanna, want-to

Translations

See also

• velleity

Related terms

• desirable
• desiring-production
• desirous

Further reading

• desire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• desire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• desier, eiders, eresid, redies, reside

Italian

Alternative forms

• desiro
• disire, disiro

Etymology

From Old Occitan dezire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?zi.re/
• Rhymes: -ire
• Hyphenation: de?sì?re

Noun

desire m (plural desiri)

1. (poetic, archaic) desire

   Synonym: desiderio

Related terms

• desio
• desirare

References

• desire in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Middle English

Noun

desire

1. desire

Descendants

• English: desire