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発音

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

動詞

attach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)

1. (transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and 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, “Of Mechanical Arrangement in the Human Frame”, in Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, London: […] [F]or R[obert] Faulder, […], by Wilks and Taylor, […], →OCLC, page 117:

     [T]he ſhoulder-blade has no bony communication with the trunk, either by a joint, or proceſs, or in any other way. […] It is bedded in the fleſh; 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:

     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 include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).

   I've attached the contract to this email.

4. 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.

5. 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:

     incapable of attaching a sensible man

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

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

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

   Synonyms: chalk up to, draw, impute; see also Thesaurus:ascribe

   to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

   Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.

   • 1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature:

     To this treasure a curse is attached.

7. (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
   • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], lines 351–352:

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

8. (obsolete, law) To arrest, seize.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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, [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.

   • 1868–1899, Charlotte M[ary] Yonge, Cameos from English History, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

     The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.

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