transcription, транскрипция: [ ətætʃ ]
( attaches, attaching, attached)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you attach something to an object, you join it or fasten it to the object.
The gadget can be attached to any vertical surface...
The astronauts will attach a motor that will boost the satellite into its proper orbit...
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VERB : V n to n , V n , V-ed
2.
If someone attaches himself or herself to you, they join you and stay with you, often without being invited to do so.
Natasha attached herself to the film crew filming at her orphanage.
VERB : V pron-refl to n
3.
If people attach a quality to someone or something, or if it attaches to them, people consider that they have that quality.
The authorities attached much significance to his visit.
...the magic that still attaches to the word ‘spy’.
...the stigma attached to mental illness.
VERB : V n to n , V to n , V-ed
4.
If you attach conditions to something such as an agreement, you state that specific things must be done before the agreement is valid.
Activists are pressing the banks to attach political conditions to the signing of any new agreement...
VERB : V n to n
5.
In computing, if you attach a file to a message that you send to someone, you send it with the message but separate from it.
It is possible to attach executable program files to e-mail.
VERB : V n to n
6.
no strings attached: see string
see also attached