Verb

(en verb)

To pull toward without touching.

* Derham

All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.

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To arouse interest.

To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.

* (John Milton)

Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.

Verb

(en verb)

(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.

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(of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

To associate.

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.