different between locate vs attach

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin loc?tus, past participle of loco (“to place”), from locus (“place”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???ke?t/, /l??ke?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?lo?ke?t/, /lo??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Hyphenation: lo?cate

Verb

locate (third-person singular simple present locates, present participle locating, simple past and past participle located)

1. (transitive) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.
   • 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek

     The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter.
2. (transitive) To find out where something is located.
   • The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He […] played a lone hand, […]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.

3. (transitive) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.)
   • 1862-1892, Herbert Spencer, System of Synthetic Philosophy

     That part of the body in which the sense of touch is located.

4. (intransitive, colloquial) To place oneself; to take up one's residence; to settle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• co-locate

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Alecto, acetol, coleta

Italian

Verb

locate

1. second-person plural present indicative of locare
2. second-person plural imperative of locare
3. feminine plural of locato

Anagrams

• celato
• colate
• cotale

Latin

Participle

loc?te

1. vocative masculine singular of loc?tus

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Cooley to this entry?)

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