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links | attaches |

As nouns the difference between links and attaches

is that links is while attaches is .

links

English

Etymology 1

See link.

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (link)
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (links)
  • A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
  • * 1894 , “The Golfer in Search of a Climate”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine , page 570
  • but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
  • * 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
  • The royal and ancient game of golf may now claim to be the universal game of the world, as in every part of the habitable globe links are to be found.
  • * 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
  • All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
  • * 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
  • The links are the property of the town, the Courses being under the management of a joint committee representing the R. & A. Golf Club and the City.
  • * 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
  • A true links is built on linksland […]
  • * 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
  • A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.

    Anagrams

    * * English invariant nouns ----

    attaches

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (attach)
  • ----

    attach

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:
  • Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait
  • * 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2
  • Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
  • * Miss Yonge
  • The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
  • To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
  • An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
  • * Paley
  • The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.
  • * Macaulay
  • a huge stone to which the cable was attached
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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  • To adhere; to be attached.
  • * Brougham
  • The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
  • To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
  • Dower will attach .
    (Cooley)
  • 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 .
  • attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
  • * Jane Austen
  • incapable of attaching a sensible man
  • * Cowper
  • God by various ties attaches man to man.
  • To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .
  • to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
  • * Bayard Taylor
  • To this treasure a curse is attached .
  • (obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
  • (Shakespeare)

    Synonyms

    * (to fasten, to join to ) connect, annex, affix, unite

    Antonyms

    * (to fasten, to join to ) detach, unfasten, disengage, separate

    Derived terms

    () * attachable * attachment * attacher * get attached