Links vs Attaches - What's the difference?
links | attaches |
(link)
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
* 1919 , Harold H. Hilton, “Golf Courses at Home and Abroad”, in The Windsor Magazine , no. 296, p. 173.
* 1920 , Walter Hines Page, The World’s Work , page 393
* 1967 , Litellus Russell Muirhead, Scotland , page 278
* 2002 , Forrest L. Richardson, Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey , page 95
* 2003 , Lorne Rubenstein, A Season in Dornoch: Golf and Life in the Scottish Highlands , page 168
(attach)
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(obsolete, legal) To arrest, seize.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , I.xii:
* 1610 , , by (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 2
* Miss Yonge
To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).
* Paley
* Macaulay
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, title= To adhere; to be attached.
* Brougham
To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.
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 .
* Jane Austen
* Cowper
To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to .
* Bayard Taylor
(obsolete) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
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)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(links)- but what worthy golf links is not intolerably hard of access?
- 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.
- All over the country, links are scattered — club links, public links, and private links — and every year the number grows.
- 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.
- A true links is built on linksland […]
- A links is best when it’s really firm and when the wind is really up.
Anagrams
* * English invariant nouns ----attaches
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Verb
(head)attach
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Verb
- Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait
- Old lord, I cannot blame thee, / Who am myself attach'd with weariness / To th' dulling of my spirits: sit down, and rest.
- The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason.
- An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
- The shoulder blade is attached only to the muscles.
- a huge stone to which the cable was attached
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- The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.
- Dower will attach .
- (Cooley)
- attached''' to a friend; '''attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
- incapable of attaching a sensible man
- God by various ties attaches man to man.
- to attach great importance to a particular circumstance
- To this treasure a curse is attached .
- (Shakespeare)