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Synonyms for attachments

Grammar : Noun
Spell : uh-tach-muhnt
Phonetic Transcription : əˈtætʃ mənt

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Définition of attachments

Origin :
  • c.1400, "arrest of a person on judicial warrant" (mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin), from French attachement, from attacher (see attach). Application to property (including, later, wages) dates from 1590s; meaning "sympathy, devotion" is recorded from 1704; that of "something that is attached to something else" dates from 1797 and has become perhaps the most common use since the rise of e-mail.
  • noun fastening
  • noun something joined, fastened to another
  • noun affection, high regard
Example sentences :
  • The muscles which move the bones vary largely in their attachments.
  • Extract from : « On Some Fossil Remains of Man » by Thomas H. Huxley
  • His reasoning was that the attachments we form are only emanations of our own selfishness.
  • Extract from : « The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Will you allow us nothing to the credit of our fidelity,—to our attachments, madame?
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • Did you expect that the attachments of a people were to reach you by the post?
  • Extract from : « St. Patrick's Eve » by Charles James Lever
  • His attachments were warm but fickle both in choice and duration.
  • Extract from : « Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs » by Henry H. Harper
  • His attachments were warm, but fickle, both in choice and duration.'
  • Extract from : « The Book-Hunter in London » by William Roberts
  • Yet she was capable of attachments, strong as her own nature.
  • Extract from : « Olive » by Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
  • The other tools and attachments needed will be described as I come to them in use.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting » by Eugene E. Hall
  • The Loyalists, from their attachments, surely had some claim to our affection.
  • Extract from : « The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 » by Edgerton Ryerson
  • What right have you, monseigneur, to demand an account of my attachments and friendships?
  • Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy

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