{
    "term": "attach",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "attach",
            "heSheIt": "attaches"
        },
        "pastSimple": "attached",
        "pastParticiple": "attached",
        "ingForm": "attaching"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to fasten or join one thing to another",
            "sensetop": "attach somethingattach something to something",
            "labels": "(figurative)",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I attach a copy of my notes for your information.",
                    "contextForm": "attach something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A copy of his document is attached as Appendix 3 at the end of this book."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Attach the coupon to the front of your letter.",
                    "contextForm": "attach something to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They have **attached** a number of **conditions** to the agreement *(= said that the conditions must be part of the agreement)*"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Phones, email and the internet"],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["firmly", "securely", "loosely"],
                "preposition": ["to"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to send an electronic document with an email",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I attach a copy of the spreadsheet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I am attaching the image as a PDF file."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to believe that something is important or worth thinking about",
            "sensetop": "attach importance, significance, value, weight to something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I attach great importance to this research.",
                    "contextForm": "attach importance, significance, value, weight to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wouldn't attach too much weight to these findings."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to join somebody for a time, sometimes when you are not welcome or have not been invited",
            "sensetop": "attach yourself to somebody",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He attached himself to me at the party and I couldn't get rid of him."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to be connected with somebody/something; to connect something to something",
            "sensetop": "attach to somebody/somethingattach something to somebody/somethingbe attached to something",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "No one is suggesting that any health risks attach to this product.",
                    "contextForm": "attach to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "No blame attaches to you."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This does not attach any blame to you.",
                    "contextForm": "attach something to somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Nowadays, there is less **stigma attached to** mental illness than in the past.",
                    "contextForm": "be attached to something"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃ/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attach__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪz/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attaches__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃt/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attached__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attaching__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃ/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attach__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪz/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attaches__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃt/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attached__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/əˈtætʃɪŋ/",
                "audio": "at/attach/attaching__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English (in the sense ‘seize by legal authority’): from Old French atachier or estachier ‘fasten, fix’, based on an element of Germanic origin related to stake ‘post’; compare with attack."
}