attachとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /əˈtæt͡ʃ/
  • 韻: -ætʃ
  • ハイフネーション: at‧tach

動詞

attach (三人称単数 現在形 attaches, 現在分詞 attaching, 過去形および過去分詞形 attached)

1. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (字義どおりに かつ figuratively).

   Synonyms: connect, annex, affix, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

   Antonyms: detach, unfasten, disengage, separate; see also Thesaurus:disconnect

   You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.

   An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

   • 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology:

     The shoulder blade is […] attached only to the muscles.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:

     A huge stone, to which the cable on the left bank was attached, was removed years later

   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

2. (intransitive) To adhere; to be attached.

   Synonyms: cling, stick; see also Thesaurus:adhere

   • 1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy

     The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

3. To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

   Dower will attach.

   • 1886, Thomas M. Cooley, A Treatise on the Law of Taxation

     it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.

4. 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.

   attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery

   • 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 20599507:

     incapable of attaching a sensible man

   • 1782, William Cowper, “Charity”, in Poems, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], OCLC 1029672464:

     God […] by various ties attaches man to man.

5. To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.

   to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

   • 1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature

     To this treasure a curse is attached.

6. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 4, scene 3, lines 351–352:

     Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.

7. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book 1, canto 12:

     Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […]

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.

   • 1868, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Cameos from English History

     The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.

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