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Attach vs Impound - What's the difference?

attach | impound |

In transitive terms the difference between attach and impound

is that attach is to fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively) while impound is to hold back, as water by a dam.

As verbs the difference between attach and impound

is that attach is to arrest, seize while impound is to shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.

As a noun impound is

a place in which things are impounded.

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)
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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)

    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

    impound

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shut up or place in an enclosure called a pound.
    • His car got impounded after he'd parked illegally.
  • To hold back, as water by a dam.
  • (legal) To hold in the custody of a court or its delegate.
    • to impound''' stray cattle; to '''impound a document for safe keeping.
  • (transitive, legal, banking) To collect and hold (funds) for payment of property taxes and insurance on property in which one has a security interest.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A place in which things are impounded.
  • *
  • A state of being impounded.
  • *
  • That which has been impounded.
  • *
  • (legal, banking) Amounts collected from a debtor and held by one with a security interest in property for payment of property taxes and insurance.

    • See also

    * escrow