Attach vs Paste - What's the difference?
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(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.
A soft mixture, in particular:
# One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
# One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
# One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
(physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
(obsolete) Pasta.
(mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.
To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
(computing) To insert a piece of (e.g. text, picture, audio, video, movie container etc.) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
(informal) To strike or beat someone or something.
* 1943 , , chapter 23,
(informal) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.
In transitive terms the difference between attach and paste
is that attach is to fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively) while paste is to stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.In obsolete terms the difference between attach and paste
is that attach is to take, seize, or lay hold of while paste is pasta.As verbs the difference between attach and paste
is that attach is to arrest, seize while paste is to stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.As a noun paste is
a soft mixture, in particular.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 attachedpaste
English
(wikipedia paste)Noun
Verb
(past)- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.