Verb

(en verb)

To be in contact or connection with.

The living room and dining room adjoin each other.

(transitive, mathematics, chiefly, algebra, and, number theory) To extend an algebraic object (e.g. a field, a ring etc.) by adding to it (an element not belonging to it) and all finite power series of (the element).

$\backslash textbf\{Q\}\backslash left(\backslash sqrt\{2\}\backslash right)$ can be obtained from $\backslash textbf\{Q\}$ by adjoining $\backslash sqrt\{2\}$ to $\backslash textbf\{Q\}$ .

Verb

(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:

Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait

* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2

Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.

* Miss Yonge

The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.

To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.

* Paley

The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.

* Macaulay

a huge stone to which the cable was attached

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To adhere; to be attached.

* Brougham

The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

Dower will attach .

(Cooley)

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

* Jane Austen

incapable of attaching a sensible man

* Cowper

God by various ties attaches man to man.

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

to attach great importance to a particular circumstance

* Bayard Taylor

To this treasure a curse is attached .

(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

(Shakespeare)