/əˈtætʃ/
Translation
To join or fix one thing to another; also to add a file to an email or message.
Word origin
From Old French atachier, to fasten to a post or stake.
- Origin
- Old French
- Root
- atachier
- English cognates
- attachment
Grammar
Examples
application.
You attach one thing "to" another.
.
The everyday office use; the file travels with the message.
.
"Attached to" someone or something means you love it and do not want to lose it.
Used in
Grammar articles
(6)Countable and uncountable nouns in English: advice, information, news and the ones you simply have to learn
Gradable and ungradable adjectives: why very furious sounds wrong, and which intensifier goes where
Hedging and vague language in English: sort of, a bit, -ish, stuff and or so
Present perfect continuous: have been doing, and how it differs from the present perfect
So, such, too and enough in English: words of degree and result
Word formation with prefixes: un-, in-, im-, dis-, re-, over-, under- and mis-
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