Attached vs Attract - What's the difference?
attached | attract |
(attach)
In a romantic or sexual relationship.
(botany, mycology) Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
To pull toward without touching.
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To draw by moral, emotional or sexual influence; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure.
* (John Milton)
As verbs the difference between attached and attract
is that attached is past tense of attach while attract is to pull toward without touching.As an adjective attached
is in a romantic or sexual relationship.attached
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
Coordinate terms
* (sharing two walls) detached, semiattachedattract
English
Verb
(en verb)- All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.
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- Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze.