Sequester and Attach

verb

• Requisition forcibly, as of enemy property.
  • usage: "the estate was sequestered"
• 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, attach, confiscate, seize
• Undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion.
  • usage: "The cations were sequestered"
• Keep away from others.
  • usage: "He sequestered himself in his study to write a book"
  • synonyms: seclude, sequestrate, withdraw
• Set apart from others.
  • usage: "The dentist sequesters the tooth he is working on"
  • synonyms: sequestrate, keep apart, set apart, isolate

• (v.i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
• (v.t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken or till the owner has performed the decree of court or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
• (v.t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
• (n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
• (n.) Sequestration; separation.
• (v.t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
• (v.t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
• (v.i.) To withdraw; to retire.
• (n.) Same as Sequestrum.

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"
  • synonyms: bind, tie, bond
• 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

• (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.

(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.