attach

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To fasten, secure, or join: attached the wires to the post.
2. v. To connect as an adjunct or associated condition or part: Many major issues are attached to this legislation.
3. v. To affix or append; add: attached several riders to the document.
4. v. To ascribe or assign: attached no significance to the threat.
5. v. To bind by emotional ties, as of affection or loyalty: I am attached to my family.
6. v. To assign (personnel) to a military unit on a temporary basis.
7. v. Law To seize (persons or property) by legal writ.
8. v. To adhere, belong, or relate: Very little prestige attaches to this position.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. In law, to take by legal authority. To take bodily; arrest in person: now applied only to arrest of a person by civil process to answer for a contempt of court or disregard of its mandate, but formerly to arrests of all kinds: with for, also formerly with of.
2. To take (real or personal property) by legal warrant, to be held for the satisfaction of the judgment that may be rendered in a suit.
3. See attachment.
4. To lay hold of; seize.
5. To take, seize, or lay hold on, by moral force, as by affection or interest; fasten or bind by moral influence; win: as, his kindness attached us all to him.
6. To tack or fix to; fasten in any manner, as one thing to another, by either natural or artificial means; bind; tie; cause to adhere.
7. Figuratively, to connect; associate: as, to attach a particular significance to a word.
8. To join to or with in action or function; connect as an associate or adjunct; adjoin for duty or companionship: as, an officer is attached to such a ship, regiment, battalion, etc.; our regiment is attached to the 1st brigade; this man is attached to my service; he attached himself to me for the entire journey.
9. To adhere; pertain, as a quality or circumstance; belong or be incident: with to.
10. To be fixed or fastened; rest as an appurtenance: with on or upon.
11. To come into operation; take or have effect.
12. n. An attachment.
13. n. An attack.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, law To arrest, seize.
2. v. To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join.
2. v. To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint.
3. v. 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
4. v. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to.
5. v. obsolete To take, seize, or lay hold of.
6. v. 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.
7. v. To adhere; to be attached.
8. v. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
9. n. obsolete An attachment.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. create social or emotional ties
2. v. take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
3. v. become attached
4. v. cause to be attached
5. v. be attached; be in contact with