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Attach vs Barnacle - What's the difference?

attach | barnacle |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between attach and barnacle

is that attach is (obsolete) to take, seize, or lay hold of while barnacle is (obsolete) an instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.

As verbs the difference between attach and barnacle

is that attach is (obsolete|legal) to arrest, seize while barnacle is to connect with or attach.

As a noun barnacle is

a marine crustacean of the subclass cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.

attach

English

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
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
    • , title= The Adaptable Gas Turbine , passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
  • 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)

    Synonyms

    * (to fasten, to join to ) connect, annex, affix, unite

    Antonyms

    * (to fasten, to join to ) detach, unfasten, disengage, separate

    Derived terms

    () * attachable * attachment * attacher * get attached

    Related terms

    () * attachment

    barnacle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
  • The barnacle goose.
  • (engineering, slang) In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
  • (computing, slang) On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
  • (obsolete) An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
  • (archaic, British) A nickname for spectacles.
  • (slang, obsolete) A good job, or snack easily obtained.

    • Related terms

    * barnacle eater * barnacle goose * barnacle scale

    Verb

    (barnacl)
  • To connect with or attach.
  • * 2009 , , Hidden Buddhas: A Novel of Karma and Chaos , Stone Bridge Press (2009), ISBN 9781933330853, page 178:
    • Tokuda went over everything his grandfather had taught him, including the commentary that had barnacled on to the core knowledge.
  • To press close against something.
  • * 2002 , , All Families Are Psychotic , Vintage Canada (2002), ISBN 0679311831, page 16:
    • He turned a corner to where he supposed the cupboard might be, to find Howie and Alanna barnacled together in an embrace.

    See also

    * limpet

    References

    * * 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue , available from Project Gutenberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5402]

    Anagrams

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