Attaching - English meaning

verb

Stick fast to (a surface or substance).

Usage examples:

Paint won't adhere well to a greasy surface

verb

To stick firmly

Usage examples:

A smooth, dry surface helps the tiles adhere to the wall.

verb

Stick, attach, or fasten (something) to something else.

Usage examples:

Panels to which he affixes copies of fine old prints

noun

An addition to the base form or stem of a word in order to modify its meaning or create a new word.

Usage examples:

Languages that work like this, where whole phrases or clauses can be formed in one word by attachin…

verb

To fasten or stick one thing to another

Usage examples:

Manufacturers were required to affix prominent warning labels on the product itself., affix somethi…

noun

A heavy object attached to a cable or chain and used to moor a ship to the sea bottom, typically having a metal shank with a pair of curved, barbed flukes at one end.

Usage examples:

The boat, no longer held fast by its anchor, swung wildly

verb

Moor (a ship) to the sea bottom with an anchor.

Usage examples:

The ship was anchored in the lee of the island

noun

A heavy metal object attached to a boat by a rope or chain that, when dropped into the water and resting on the bottom, keeps the boat from moving

Usage examples:

We dropped the anchor and took out our fishing rods., she’s looking for a spiritual anchor., the ma…

adjective

Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

Usage examples:

This isn't the appropriate time or place

verb

Take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

Usage examples:

The accused had appropriated the property

Suitable for a particular person, place, or situation

verb

Tie or fasten (something) tightly together.

Usage examples:

They bound her hands and feet

noun

A problematical situation.

Usage examples:

He is in a bind that gets worse with every passing minute

verb

To tie someone or something tightly, or to fasten things together

Usage examples:

The room was full of wooden boxes bound with twisted wire., fig. the club is home to a mix of peopl…

noun

A relationship between people or groups based on shared feelings, interests, or experiences.

Usage examples:

There was a bond of understanding between them

verb

Join or be joined securely to something else, especially by means of an adhesive substance, heat, or pressure.

Usage examples:

Press the material to bond the layers together

noun

A close and lasting relationship between people

Usage examples:

The bond between parents and children is usually very strong., the county issued $4 million in bond…

noun

A powdery substance made by calcining lime and clay, mixed with water to form mortar or mixed with sand, gravel, and water to make concrete.

Usage examples:

We were having some building work done and there was cement, sand and mortar lying around.

verb

Fix with cement.

Usage examples:

Wooden posts were cemented into the ground

noun

A gray powder that is mixed with water, sand, and other substances, becomes very hard when dry, and is used in making concrete

Usage examples:

There weren’t any chairs, so she sat on the cement., the dentist cemented the tooth back in place.,…

noun

A series of linked metal rings used for fastening or securing something, or for pulling loads.

Usage examples:

He slid the bolts on the front door and put the safety chain across

verb

Fasten or secure with a chain.

Usage examples:

She chained her bicycle to the railings

noun

A length of metal rings that are connected together and used for fastening or supporting, and in machinery

Usage examples:

She looped the chain around her bike and locked it to the fence., mary wore a silver chain around h…

verb

Officially take possession or control of (something), especially for military purposes.

Usage examples:

A nearby house had been commandeered by the army

verb

Take arbitrarily or by force

verb

To take possession or control of private property, esp. by force

Usage examples:

Some visitors commandeered outdoor tables on the balcony.

verb

Take or seize (someone's property) with authority.

Usage examples:

The guards confiscated his camera

verb

To officially take private property away from someone, usually by legal authority

Usage examples:

Customs agents confiscated her bags., [ u ] the law allows for confiscation of vehicles used in cri…

verb

To officially take something away from someone, sometimes for a limited period, because they have done something illegal

Usage examples:

The organization has notified u.s. customs to confiscate all imported fire extinguishers with the c…

verb

Bring together or into contact so that a real or notional link is established.

Usage examples:

The electrodes were connected to a recording device

verb

To join together two things, or to be joined together

Usage examples:

[ i ] the printer connects to the computer., [ t ] a ferry connects the island to the mainland., [ …

verb

To join two or more pieces of equipment together, or to be joined in this way

Usage examples:

Wireless networks allow you to connect two or more pcs within your own home., connect to sth the ca…

noun

Two people or things of the same sort considered together.

Usage examples:

A couple of girls were playing marbles

verb

Link or combine (something) with something else.

Usage examples:

A sense of hope is coupled with a palpable sense of loss

noun

Two or a few things that are similar or the same, or two or a few people who are in some way connected

Usage examples:

I’m packing a couple of sweaters in case it gets cold., we’re having two couples over for dinner.

verb

Seize (someone's property) in order to obtain payment of rent or other money owed.

Usage examples:

Legislation has restricted the right to distrain goods found upon the premises

verb

To take and sell property from someone who owes you money in order to pay back their debt

Usage examples:

Under the law, landlords have a legal right to distrain goods from a defaulting tenant in lieu of r…

verb

(of the state or an authority) take (property) from its owner for public use or benefit.

Usage examples:

Their assets were expropriated by the government

verb

To take and keep money or property belonging to someone else

verb

If a government expropriates property, it takes it for public use, sometimes without payment to the owner

Usage examples:

The new regime wiped out organized crime and vice, expropriated factories and built new ones, setti…

verb

Close or do up securely.

Usage examples:

The tunic was fastened with a row of gilt buttons

verb

To make or become firmly attached or closed

Usage examples:

[ i ] this skirt fastens at the back., [ t ] fasten your seatbelt.

verb

To (cause something to) become firmly fixed together, or in position, or closed

Usage examples:

Make sure your seat belt is securely fastened., this shirt fastens at the back.

noun

A chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles.

Usage examples:

He lay bound with fetters of iron

verb

Restrain with chains or manacles, typically around the ankles.

Usage examples:

There were no chains immediately available to fetter the prisoners

verb

To keep someone within limits or stop them from making progress

Usage examples:

Fettered by he felt fettered by a nine-to-five office existence.

verb

Fasten (something) securely in a particular place or position.

Usage examples:

They had candles fixed to their helmets

noun

A difficult or awkward situation from which it is hard to extricate oneself; a predicament.

Usage examples:

How on earth did you get into such a fix?

verb

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken

verb

Join or blend to form a single entity.

Usage examples:

Intermarriage had fused the families into a large unit

noun

A safety device consisting of a strip of wire that melts and breaks an electric circuit if the current exceeds a safe level.

Usage examples:

If the demand for electrical current exceeds the safety level, a fuse opens once and must be replac…

verb

Fit a fuse to (a bomb, shell, or mine).

Usage examples:

The bomb was fused to go off during a charity performance

noun

An adhesive substance used for sticking objects or materials together.

Usage examples:

Waterproof glue

verb

Fasten or join with or as if with glue.

Usage examples:

The wood is cut into pieces which are then glued together

noun

A sticky substance used for joining things

Usage examples:

I’ll just glue the handle back on the cup.

verb

Move (something) into a different position with a jerk.

Usage examples:

She hitched up her skirt and ran

noun

A temporary difficulty or problem.

Usage examples:

Everything went without a hitch

verb

Hook or entangle

verb

Link; connect.

Usage examples:

The tap was joined to a pipe

noun

A place or line where two or more things are connected or fastened together.

Usage examples:

It was soldered so well that you couldn't see the join

verb

Strike or beat with a whip or stick.

Usage examples:

They lashed him repeatedly about the head

noun

A sharp blow or stroke with a whip or rope.

Usage examples:

He was sentenced to fifty lashes for his crime

verb

A quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object

noun

A relationship between two things or situations, especially where one affects the other.

Usage examples:

A commission to investigate a link between pollution and forest decline

verb

Make, form, or suggest a connection with or between.

Usage examples:

Rumours that linked his name with judith

noun

A torch of pitch and tow for lighting the way in dark streets.

noun

A tract of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather.

Usage examples:

A little town in the moors

verb

Make fast (a boat) by attaching it by cable or rope to the shore or to an anchor.

Usage examples:

Twenty or so fishing boats were moored to the pierside

noun

A member of a north-western african muslim people of mixed berber and arab descent. in the 8th century they conquered the iberian peninsula, but were finally driven out of their last stronghold in granada at the end of the 15th century.

Usage examples:

For centuries córdoba was the moors' capital and one of europe's most sophisticated cities

verb

Distrain or impound (a person's property).

Usage examples:

The bailiff and his men poind his goods in the name of the law

noun

An official order laying claim to the use of property or materials.

Usage examples:

I had to make various requisitions for staff and accommodation

verb

Demand the use or supply of (something) by official order.

Usage examples:

The government had assumed powers to requisition cereal products at fixed prices

noun

A formal or official request for something needed

Usage examples:

[ c ] the staff made a requisition for new desks., the army requisitioned all the trucks in the reg…

noun

A length of thick strong cord made by twisting together strands of hemp, sisal, nylon, or similar material.

Usage examples:

There was no way down, even with a rope

verb

Catch, fasten, or secure with rope.

Usage examples:

The calves must be roped and led out of the stockade

adjective

Fixed or fastened so as not to give way, become loose, or be lost.

Usage examples:

Check to ensure that all nuts and bolts are secure

verb

Fix or attach (something) firmly so that it cannot be moved or lost.

Usage examples:

Pins secure the handle to the main body

adjective

Free from risk and the threat of change for the worse

Usage examples:

A secure job, people want to feel secure economically., the museum has a large endowment, so its fu…

verb

Take hold of suddenly and forcibly.

Usage examples:

She jumped up and seized his arm

verb

Take hold of; grab

verb

To take something quickly and hold it

Usage examples:

He seized her arm to lead her through the crowd., fig. while she was distracted, i seized the oppor…

verb

Isolate or hide away.

Usage examples:

She is sequestered in deepest dorset

noun

Another term for sequestrate.

Usage examples:

Their property was sequestered by parliament

verb

To keep the people on a jury (= group deciding a legal case) separate from everyone else, even from their families, while deciding a case

Usage examples:

The judge refused to have the jury sequestered.

verb

Take legal possession of (assets) until a debt has been paid or other claims have been met.

Usage examples:

The power of courts to sequestrate the assets of unions

verb

→  sequester

noun

A low-melting alloy, especially one based on lead and tin or (for higher temperatures) on brass or silver, used for joining less fusible metals.

Usage examples:

Remove the fitting using a blowtorch to melt the solder

verb

Join with solder.

Usage examples:

The wires to this clip are soldered to the circuit board

noun

A type of soft metal that is melted to join separate metal parts which are then permanently attached when the metal cools

Usage examples:

Wrap metal foil around the glass pieces and solder them together.

noun

A thin piece of wood that has fallen or been cut off a tree.

Usage examples:

Hayes picked up a fallen stick and twirled it idly between his fingers.

verb

Push a sharp or pointed object into or through (something).

Usage examples:

He stuck his fork into the sausage

verb

A long thin implement resembling a length of wood

noun

A strip of leather, cloth, or other flexible material, used to fasten, secure, or carry something or to hold on to something.

Usage examples:

Her bra strap

verb

Fasten or secure in a specified place or position with a strap.

Usage examples:

I had to strap the bag to my bicycle

verb

An elongated leather strip (or a strip of similar material) for binding things together or holding something in position

verb

Lay hold of (something) with one's hands; reach for and hold.

Usage examples:

Mrs morgan took another biscuit

noun

A scene or sequence of sound or vision photographed or recorded continuously at one time.

Usage examples:

He completed a particularly difficult scene in two takes

verb

Get into one's hands

phrasal verb

Buy food at a cafe or restaurant for eating elsewhere.

Usage examples:

He ordered a lamb madras to take away

verb

To move something or someone from one place to another

Usage examples:

Please, take me with you!, it may rain, so take your umbrella., the suitcases were taken to madrid …

verb

To subtract one number or amount from another

Usage examples:

Take sth from sth you'll need to take $2,000 from the $8,000 to allow for tax., take sth/sb off (st…

phrase

To start to use and control something such as a building or piece of land that you may or may not own

Usage examples:

We've already bought the house but we won't take possession of it until may., if they can't pay the…

noun

A narrow strip of material, as used to hold or fasten something.

Usage examples:

A reel of tape

verb

A narrow strip of material, typically used to hold or fasten something.

Usage examples:

A reel of tape

verb

Tie (an animal) with a rope or chain so as to restrict its movement.

Usage examples:

The horse had been tethered to a post

noun

A rope or chain with which an animal is tied to restrict its movement.

Usage examples:

Regulations banning neck and girth tethers for sows

noun

A rope, chain, or other device used to attach a person or animal to a fixed object

Usage examples:

Asthma kept him tethered to an oxygen tank.

verb

Attach or fasten with string or similar cord.

Usage examples:

They tied max to a chair

noun

A piece of string, cord, or similar used for fastening or tying something.

Usage examples:

He tightened the tie of his robe

verb

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord

idiom

Secure with or as if with ropes

phrasal verb

Bind someone so that they cannot move or escape.

Usage examples:

Robbers tied her up and ransacked her home

phrasal verb

Occupy someone to the exclusion of any other activity.

Usage examples:

She would be tied up at the meeting all day

noun

A framework, typically consisting of rafters, posts, and struts, supporting a roof, bridge, or other structure.

Usage examples:

Roof trusses

verb

Tie up the wings and legs of (a chicken or other bird) before cooking.

Usage examples:

Alfred had already trussed and stuffed the geese

noun

A support for a building or bridge, made of wood or steel

Usage examples:

No one knows if the fire damaged the building’s trusses and support beams.

verb

Join together (metal parts) by heating the surfaces to the point of melting with a blowpipe, electric arc, or other means, and uniting them by pressing, hammering, etc.

Usage examples:

Steel plates were being welded

noun

A welded joint.

Usage examples:

This process is quite common for making welds for making watertight joints for tanks, etc.

noun

A widely distributed plant related to mignonette, yielding a yellow dye.

noun

A wooden crosspiece that is fastened over the necks of two animals and attached to the plough or cart that they are to pull.

Usage examples:

The god told him that he would meet a cow that had never borne the weight of a yoke or plough.

verb

Put a yoke on (a pair of animals); couple or attach with or to a yoke.

Usage examples:

A plough drawn by a camel and donkey yoked together

noun

A thing whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.

Usage examples:

How much did that yoke set you back?