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Attached vs Appendant - What's the difference?

attached | appendant |

As adjectives the difference between attached and appendant

is that attached is in a romantic or sexual relationship while appendant is attached as an appendage.

As a verb attached

is past tense of attach.

As a noun appendant is

anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.

attached

English

Verb

(head)
  • (attach)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In a romantic or sexual relationship.
    • As far as I know, he isn't attached , so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
    I'm not ready to get attached , as I want to continue sleeping around.
  • (botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
    • In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
  • Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.

    • Coordinate terms

    * (sharing two walls) detached, semiattached

    appendant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • attached as an appendage
  • annexed; concomitant
    • a seal appendant to a paper
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity.
  • (legal) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house.
    • (Wharton)
    (Coke)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
  • (legal) An inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
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