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English

Alternative forms

• deposite (17th-19th centuries)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??p?z?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??p?z?t/
• Rhymes: -?z?t

Noun

deposit (plural deposits)

1. Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
2. That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.
3. (banking) Money placed in an account.
4. Anything left behind on a surface.

5. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.

6. A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
7. A place of deposit; a depository.

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See also

• refundable

Verb

deposit (third-person singular simple present deposits, present participle depositing, simple past and past participle deposited)

1. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience

     This fear is deposited in conscience.

2. To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.

3. To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
5. (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.

6. To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
   • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Schism: or a Defence of the Church of England

     reform and deposit his error

Antonyms

• withdrawal

Translations

Anagrams

• dopiest, podites, posited, side pot, sopited, toe-dips, topside

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)

1. (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
2. (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.

3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

   Dower will attach.

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4. 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.

5. 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.

6. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
7. (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.

Derived terms

• attachable
• attachment
• attacher
• get attached

Related terms

• attachment

Translations

Anagrams

• chatta