Attachment vs Paste - What's the difference?
attachment | paste |
The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
* 2005 , Rebecca N. Baergen, Manual of Benirschke and Kaufmann's Pathology of the Human Placenta , page 71:
A strong bonding towards or with.
A dependence, especially a strong one.
* 2003 , Griffith Edwards, Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug , page 63:
A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool.
* 1978 , Walter H. Wager, Time of reckoning , page 194:
The means by which something is physically attached.
* 2012 , Sinikka Elliott, Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers , page 46:
(computing) A file sent along with an email.
(legal) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt.
(meteorology) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
* 2009 , Jakke Mäkelä, Eero Karvinen, Niko Porjo, Antti Mäkelä and Tapio Tuomi, Attachment of Natural Lightning Flashes to Trees: Preliminary Statistical Characteristics'', published in the ''Journal of Lightning Research , volume 1
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.
As nouns the difference between attachment and paste
is that attachment is the act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching while paste is pie or a similar baked good.attachment
English
Noun
- The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs.
- I have such an attachment towards my fiancé!
- Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol.
- Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment ,
- [The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta.
- attachment of earnings
Derived terms
* attachment disorder ----paste
English
(wikipedia paste)Noun
Verb
(past)- He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.