verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a legend is attached to sth (= connected with it )
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The cave has an unusual legend attached to it.
attach a condition (= say that an agreement depends on something )
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Only one condition was attached to this agreement.
attach a copy of sth (= in an email )
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I’m attaching a copy of the schedule.
attach a file (= send it with an email )
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Sorry, I forgot to attach the file.
attach importance to sth (= think it is important )
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She attached great importance to loyalty.
attach significance to sth (= give something importance )
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They say they don't attach much significance to opinion polls.
securely locked/fastened/attached/held etc
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All firearms should be kept securely locked in a cabinet.
stigma attached to
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There is a social stigma attached to single parenthood.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
securely
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Make sure that the identity labels are securely attached , and take them out to the heeling-in trench.
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The hardest thing about snowshoeing is getting the tethered shoe attached securely to your feet.
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From its rear chassis, two heavy chains were securely attached to the steel bars of the gates.
still
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The head, still attached , was twisted to one side.
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I am still attached to it, but I try not to look out the window....
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You're tilted slightly, and spinning, but you're still attached .
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It was still attached to my head.
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Only a short piece was still attached to the bell, and the rat was still hanging on to it.
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But, the importance still attached to traditional familial connections provided a readymade network for recruitment.
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The flag was still attached to its pin, which was buried in the sole of Prentice's shoe.
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In that field was the access door from deep within the tank, a piece of the beam still attached .
to
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It's further complicated by the wire it's attached to .
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They too attach to very specific parts of the limb.
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The Bridge is smooth, nothing to attach to.
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No virtue attached to that though.
■ NOUN
chain
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It was attached to a rusty chain hidden in the bracken.
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Ask a grown-up to attach a hooked chain to the centre top bar.
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His hands are on the table, but they are held together by manacles, to which a chain is attached .
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She too was calm and stood patiently while he attached the chain to a length of rope around her neck.
condition
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The councils have the power to attach terms and conditions to the provision of funds to any institution.
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Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money.
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Since nobody else had been found, Hayling offered Thornton the Chairmanship, but the executive attached two humiliating conditions .
end
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The wires had no detonators attached to the ends of them.
form
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The main point is that prose varies a great deal in the amount of aesthetic interest which attaches to linguistic form .
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They have to be reported on Schedule H, which can be attached to either Form 1040 or 1040A.
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Moreover, whether or not conditions are attached to debt relief, they will certainly be attached to other forms of aid.
importance
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How much importance was attached to these initiatives in terms of overall company strategy? 5.
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The philosophical importance thus attached to the individual coincided with abandonment of traditional values.
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Such is the importance attached to an inquiry of this kind.
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Seven bookings - four for Millwall and three for the Hammers - reflected the importance both clubs attach to the fixture.
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This latter step emphasizes the importance which you attach to the whole process.
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This partly accounts for the importance which farmers attach to cultivating their workers' loyalty.
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Therapists vary in the importance they attach to background and childhood experiences of the parents.
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Special importance shall be attached to an active labour market policy, such as vocational training and retraining.
label
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Make sure that the identity labels are securely attached , and take them out to the heeling-in trench.
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It is impossible to isolate parts of the system of government to which the label may authoritatively be attached .
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Annotations or labels may be attached to the clones and probes.
meaning
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What meaning can we attach to spatial position?
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Their collective utterances may help us to understand the meaning they wished to attach to this favoured term.
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External attributions may take two forms: That there is no meaning to be attached to the members' actions.
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In each case a different meaning is attached to the act of lighting a candle.
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The meanings and purposes they attach to this behaviour are largely inconsequential.
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Exactly what meaning can be attached to the other histories, in which we do not exist, is not clear.
name
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His job is to unearth bodies, attach names to their bones and return the remains to their families.
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But it makes the whole idea of the endowment more real to attach a name to the donor.
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The Ross Perot candidate petition is attached to a name .
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To attract attention to your project, it is best to attach a reputable research name and talent to your proposal.
side
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They are small grains with a little wing attached on each side , which helps them spread by the wind.
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The blame attaches to both sides of industry.
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Pipes and threaded connectors attached to the back sides serve as handles for technicians who carry and install the 700-pound panels.
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Additionally, these straps can sometimes be used to attach extra side pockets.
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A barn was attached on the left side and the whole place stood in the centre of a stone courtyard.
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Cover the batten and attach the opposite side of touch-and-close fastener, as Method 1.
significance
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For on it depends the significance to be attached to the revolution.
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And what significance should we attach to this development?
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I keep coming back to the idea that everything can have some significance attached to it.
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What significance does Hall attach to them?
stigma
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There was a social stigma attached to diesel car ownership, too.
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The social stigma attached to epilepsy 3.
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There's a stigma attached to the stay-at-home mum, as if she hasn't a brain between the ears!
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In a print society, enormous stigma is attached to the adult nonreader.
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In Britain, more so than in other countries, science fiction has always had a stigma attached to it.
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There's no stigma attached to being half-cut on the streets.
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As I've always been blonde I forget about the stigma attached to the colour.
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Few claimants will want to attract the social stigma which attaches to a characterisation of a person as disabled.
string
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However, the billions come with strings attached .
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Local officials sometimes complained about adverse decisions and strings attached to the grant but generally seemed satisfied.
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It's found money, no strings attached .
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We have freedom and no strings attached .
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But there are strings attached , and a fresh bureaucratic and political obstacle course lies ahead.
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The utility of the new revenue as well as its potential for conflict hinged on the strings attached to its use.
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Not only in agriculture, but in industry generally, grant money should have strings attached .
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Few strings are attached to the Enterprise Allowance Scheme.
unit
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This was the Padre attached to the unit .
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Political officers would be attached to units who worked in close co-operation with line officers.
value
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The payment was a symbolic expression of the legitimacy of the marriage and of the value that was attached to it.
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Who establishes the value attached to different resources and goods?
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In other words, a scarcity value attaches at present to the possession of a licence.
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Instead, our desires reflect the collection of values that we attach to our humanity.
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The low value attached to girl children is suggested by Rahima, a laundress who lives in Dhaka.
wall
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Buy one which attaches to the wall with hooks.
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They also can be attached to a wall with special brackets or used as bookshelf speakers.
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With my head down I manoeuvred the metal ring over the iron hook which was attached to the wall bracket.
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Hanging about a foot from attached wall mounts, these sturdy steel bells would grace any garden.
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The largest of these was attached to the inner wall of the heart by a thread of flesh.
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But normally, they are attached to the wall of the house.
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He found one attached to the wall near a long table; it was half-filled with crumpled, scratched-out cable forms.
weight
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We allow the individual to attach different weights as follows.
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Fukuyama is unlikely to attach much weight to Liberation theology, which he would no doubt classify as a doomed subspecies of Marxism-Leninism.
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The other lies on the tank bottom and is attached to a lead weight .
wire
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Use a similar hooked connection to attach the Earth wire and the wire leading from S1 to the solder tag.
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In the 1980s mechanical hearts were attached by wires and tubes to machinery outside the body.
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An oval drill head was attached to a flexible wire and threaded into a blood vessel in his leg.
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A curl of green pressed powder was burning on the table, attached to a wire stand.
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The Thing didn't have to be attached to any wires .
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The 1M potentiometer should be prepared by attaching short wires to the centre and one of its outer terminals.
■ VERB
become
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They are smaller molecules than proteins, so they have to become attached to a protein molecule before they are activated.
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Glycosylated hemoglobin refers to the specific red cell hemoglobin A types to which a glucose molecule becomes irreversibly attached .
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After some time the roots become firmly attached .
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Once these feelings are put into words, the family is on the road to becoming attached to the newborn.
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She had not allowed herself to become too attached to the child.
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It then becomes more firmly attached and receives nourishment from the fish by root-like processes.
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Each tribe responded and became attached to its own specific landscape, seeing particular lakes and trees as sacred.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
no strings (attached)
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Howard's agreed to lend me the money with no strings attached.
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A boyfriend offered me a weekend in Amman, with no strings attached.
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A lift home, with no strings .
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How he must have wished to have been in the puppet's place, no policies, work and no strings attached.
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It's found money, no strings attached.
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She reminded me that we both knew the deal - no strings .
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We have freedom and no strings attached.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A copy of my resume is attached to this letter.
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Get your receipt, attach it, and send it in.
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I've attached the latest spreadsheet for you to look at.
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It took a couple of minutes to attach the trailer to the back of the truck.
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The doctor attached a tiny monitor to the baby's head.
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The doctor will attach a monitor to your stomach so that she can listen to the baby's heart.
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The references and diagrams were attached to the document.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Acheson took a second careful look and saw a few bright specks attached to the rod.
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Now processors say they are being offered plastic waste with a dowry of £50-100 a tonne attached.
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The board needs little preparation since once the skeg is attached only the daggerboard has to be slid into its case.
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These oligonucleotides were attached to Dynal magnetic beads coated with streptavidin according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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They were transferring it to living quarters attached to the hospital.
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This is the day by which your debtor must return the reply form which is attached to the summons to the court.