English Dictionary

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
Source : opted (10440)  - auto

To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
Source : opted (10441)  - auto

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; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
Source : opted (10442)  - auto

To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
Source : opted (10443)  - auto

To take, seize, or lay hold of.
Source : opted (10444)  - auto

To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
Source : opted (10445)  - auto

To adhere; to be attached.
Source : opted (10446)  - auto

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
Source : opted (10447)  - auto

An attachment.
Source : opted (10448)  - auto