attached
/əˈtætʃt/verb
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To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
"An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship."
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To adhere; to be attached.
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To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
"Dower will attach."
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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"
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To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.
"to attach great importance to a particular circumstance"
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To take, seize, or lay hold of.
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To arrest, seize.
adjective
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Connected; joined.
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Fond of (used with to).
"I'm very attached to my pets."
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In a romantic or sexual relationship.
"As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date."
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Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
"In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent."
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Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.