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attachmentSee attach a file. attachment 1. a. the arrest of a person for disobedience to a court order b. the lawful seizure of property and placing of it under control of a court c. a writ authorizing such arrest or seizure 2. Law the binding of a debt in the hands of a garnishee until its disposition has been decided by the court attachment [ə′tach·mənt] (computer science) An additional file sent with an e-mail message. (organic chemistry) The conversion of a molecular entity into another molecular structure solely by formation of a single two-center bond with another molecular entity and no other changes in bonding. (psychology) The behavior of an individual who relates in an affiliative or dependent manner to another individual or object. (virology) The initial stage in the infection of a cell by a virus that follows a chance collision by the virus with a suitable receptor area on the cell. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There is nothing which can be compared with the empire of the archdeacon over the bellringer; with the attachment of the bellringer for the archdeacon. And here I may say that I have never to this day understood objections which were afterwards raised against my early attachment to print. Misgivings Rebecca had; but she remembered all Miss Crawley had said; the old lady's avowed contempt for birth; her daring liberal opinions; her general romantic propensities; her almost doting attachment to her nephew, and her repeatedly expressed fondness for Rebecca herself. |
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