Verb

(senseid)To hold very tightly, as to not fall off.

Seaweed clung to the anchor.

* Mrs. Hemans

And what hath life for thee / That thou shouldst cling to it thus?

To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films.

To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing.

* Jonathan Swift

I clung legs as close to his side as I could.

To cause to dry up or wither.

* Shakespeare

If thou speak'st false, / Upon the next tree shalt thou hang alive, / Till famine cling thee.

(figurative, with preposition to) to be fond of, to feel strongly about

Verb

(en verb)

(of an object) To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object.

(of two objects) To join: to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to each other.

(of an object) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.

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(of a person) To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to take one object and attach it to another.

To join an electrical or telephone line to a circuit or network.

To associate.

To make a travel connection; to switch from one means of transport to another as part of the same trip.