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{
"term": "attachment",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a document that you send to somebody using email",
"labels": "(computing)",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "No attachment was included."
}
],
"topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["email", "unsolicited", "infected"],
"verb + attachment": ["include", "send", "open"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the act of joining one thing to another; a thing that joins two things together",
"sensetop": "attachment of something to somethingattachment to something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "All cars have points for the attachment of safety restraints."
},
{
"text": "They discussed the attachment of new conditions to the peace plans.",
"contextForm": "attachment of something to something"
},
{
"text": "They had to check the strength of the seat attachments to the floor of the plane.",
"contextForm": "attachment to something"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a feeling of love for somebody/something",
"sensetop": "attachment (to somebody)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a child’s strong attachment to its parents"
},
{
"text": "Prisoners can develop attachments to their guards."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["close", "deep", "passionate"],
"verb + attachment": ["feel", "have", "develop"],
"preposition": ["attachment to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "belief in and support for an idea or a set of values",
"sensetop": "attachment (to something)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the popular attachment to democratic government"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 5,
"definition": "a tool that you can fix onto a machine, to make it do another job",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an electric drill with a range of different attachments"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 6,
"definition": "a short time spent working with an organization such as a hospital, school or part of the armed forces",
"sensetop": "on attachment (to something)",
"labels": "(British English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a 4-month training attachment"
},
{
"text": "She's on attachment to the local hospital.",
"contextForm": "on attachment (to something)"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃmənt/",
"audio": "at/attachment/attachment__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃmənt/",
"audio": "at/attachment/attachment__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘arrest for contempt of court’): from Old French attachement, from atachier ‘fasten, fix’ or estachier, based on an element of Germanic origin related to stake ‘post’."
}