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{
"term": "attach",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "attach",
"heSheIt": "attaches"
},
"pastSimple": "attached",
"pastParticiple": "attached",
"ingForm": "attaching"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to fasten or join one thing to another",
"sensetop": "attach somethingattach something to something",
"labels": "(figurative)",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I attach a copy of my notes for your information.",
"contextForm": "attach something"
},
{
"text": "A copy of his document is attached as Appendix 3 at the end of this book."
},
{
"text": "Attach the coupon to the front of your letter.",
"contextForm": "attach something to something"
},
{
"text": "They have **attached** a number of **conditions** to the agreement *(= said that the conditions must be part of the agreement)*"
}
],
"topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["firmly", "securely", "loosely"],
"preposition": ["to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to send an electronic document with an email",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I attach a copy of the spreadsheet."
},
{
"text": "I am attaching the image as a PDF file."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to believe that something is important or worth thinking about",
"sensetop": "attach importance, significance, value, weight to something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I attach great importance to this research.",
"contextForm": "attach importance, significance, value, weight to something"
},
{
"text": "I wouldn't attach too much weight to these findings."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to join somebody for a time, sometimes when you are not welcome or have not been invited",
"sensetop": "attach yourself to somebody",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He attached himself to me at the party and I couldn't get rid of him."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "to be connected with somebody/something; to connect something to something",
"sensetop": "attach to somebody/somethingattach something to somebody/somethingbe attached to something",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "No one is suggesting that any health risks attach to this product.",
"contextForm": "attach to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "No blame attaches to you."
},
{
"text": "This does not attach any blame to you.",
"contextForm": "attach something to somebody/something"
},
{
"text": "Nowadays, there is less **stigma attached to** mental illness than in the past.",
"contextForm": "be attached to something"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃ/",
"audio": "at/attach/attach__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪz/",
"audio": "at/attach/attaches__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃt/",
"audio": "at/attach/attached__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪŋ/",
"audio": "at/attach/attaching__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃ/",
"audio": "at/attach/attach__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪz/",
"audio": "at/attach/attaches__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃt/",
"audio": "at/attach/attached__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪŋ/",
"audio": "at/attach/attaching__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘seize by legal authority’): from Old French atachier or estachier ‘fasten, fix’, based on an element of Germanic origin related to stake ‘post’; compare with attack."
}