Attach vs Conjoin - What's the difference?
attach | conjoin | Synonyms |
(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2
* Miss Yonge
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
* Paley
* Macaulay
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, title= To adhere; to be attached.
* Brougham
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
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 .
* Jane Austen
* Cowper
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .
* Bayard Taylor
(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
To join together; to unite; to combine.
To marry.
(grammar) To join as coordinate elements, often with a coordinating conjunction, such as coordinate clauses.
(mathematics) To combine two sets, conditions, or expressions by a logical AND; to intersect.
To unite, to join, to league.
*1843 , '', book 2, ch. XVI, ''St. Edmund
Attach is a synonym of conjoin.
In lang=en terms the difference between attach and conjoin
is that attach is to adhere; to be attached while conjoin is to unite, to join, to league.As verbs the difference between attach and conjoin
is that attach is (obsolete|legal) to arrest, seize while conjoin is to join together; to unite; to combine.attach
English
Verb
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.
- a huge stone to which the cable was attached
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- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- Dower will attach .
- (Cooley)
- attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God by various ties attaches man to man.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To this treasure a curse is attached .
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (to fasten, to join to ) connect, annex, affix, uniteAntonyms
* (to fasten, to join to ) detach, unfasten, disengage, separateDerived terms
() * attachable * attachment * attacher * get attachedconjoin
English
Verb
(en verb)- They are representatives that will loosely conjoin a nation.
- I will conjoin you in holy matrimony.
- And the Body of one Dead; — a temple where the Hero-soul once was and now is not: Oh, all mystery, all pity, all mute awe and wonder; Supernaturalism brought home to the very dullest; Eternity laid open, and the nether Darkness and the upper Light-Kingdoms; — do conjoin there, or exist nowhere!
Derived terms
* conjoined twin * conjoiner * conjoint * conjointlyExternal links
*Conjoin @ The Internet Grammar of English