Arraying and Attach
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Array.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Cause to be attached.
- Be attached; be in contact with.
- Become attached.
- usage: "The spider's thread attached to the window sill"
- Create social or emotional ties.
- usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
- Take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority.
- usage: "The FBI seized the drugs"; "The customs agents impounded the illegal shipment"; "The police confiscated the stolen artwork"
- synonyms: impound, sequester, confiscate, seize
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To take, seize or lay hold of.
- (v.i.) To adhere; to be attached.
- (v.t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
- (v.t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company or ship.
- (v.i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
- (v.t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
- (n.) An attachment.
- (v.t.) 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; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
- (v.t.) To bind, fasten, tie or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue or the like.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(DoD) The placement of units or personnel in an organization where such placement is relatively temporary.
(DoD) The detailing of individuals to specific functions where such functions are secondary or relatively temporary, e.g., attached for quarters and rations; attached for flying duty. See also assign.
(DoD) The detailing of individuals to specific functions where such functions are secondary or relatively temporary, e.g., attached for quarters and rations; attached for flying duty. See also assign.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.