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Attach to   /ətˈætʃ tu/   Listen
Attach to

verb
1.
Be present or associated with an event or entity.  Synonyms: accompany, come with, go with.  "Heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue" , "Fish usually goes with white wine" , "This kind of vein accompanies certain arteries"
2.
Be part of.  Synonym: inhere in.






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... children properly, especially those of strong and sensitive feelings, without a constant effort to appreciate the value which they attach to their enjoyments and pursuits. A lady of great strength of mind and sensibility once told the writer that one of the most acute periods of suffering in her whole life was occasioned by the burning up of some ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

... is not a graceful or artistic beast, and no particularly sentimental thoughts at first sight attach to him. But artists to-day would be at a loss without his tusks, and much sentiment is lavished on them in the form ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various

... or limb was incurred, but contending that there was no such loss in ear-cutting, nose-slitting, branding, and whipping. Leighton, of course, may have been misinformed of what occurred at his trial (for he himself was not allowed to be present!); and so some doubt must also attach to the story that when the censure was delivered "the Prelate off with his cap, and holding up his hands gave thanks to God who had given him the victory ...
— Books Condemned to be Burnt • James Anson Farrer

... preparation), taking the precaution not to carry the same to the end, or it would prevent adhesion of the wax. With a small sable brush, form a triangular spot of deep yellow at the lower end of the broad part of the petal. Attach to the end of a second-size wire a piece of lemon wax, extending the same half an inch down the stem; this is to form a foundation: the point is to be neatly moulded, and to be seen peeping, as it were, from the centre of the flower. The ...
— The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling • Emma Peachey

... be ten rods long, and that it is intended to cut it four feet deep, the natural fall being, from end to end, sufficient. We drive a stake at each end of the drain, high enough to attach to it a line three feet above the surface, which will be seven feet above the bottom of the finished drain—high enough to be above the heads of the cutters, when standing ...
— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French


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