Crossword clues for attachment
attachment
- A writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
- Meant to chat about releasing ring accessory
- Affection that comes with some emails?
- Affection that may come with email
- Fond regard
- Apt word spelled out by the letters added to 10 answers in this puzzle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attachment \At*tach"ment\, n. [F. attachment.]
The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an? passion of affection that binds a person; as, an attachment to a friend, or to a party.
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That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle.
The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history.
--I. Taylor. Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).
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(Giv. Law)
A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.
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The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.
Note: The term is applied to a seizure or taking either of persons or property. In the serving of process in a civil suit, it is most generally applied to the taking of property, whether at common law, as a species of distress, to compel defendant's appearance, or under local statutes, to satisfy the judgment the plaintiff may recover in the action. The terms attachment and arrest are both applied to the taking or apprehension of a defendant to compel an appearance in a civil action. Attachments are issued at common law and in chancery, against persons for contempt of court. In England, attachment is employed in some cases where capias is with us, as against a witness who fails to appear on summons. In some of the New England States a writ of attachment is a species of mesne process upon which the property of a defendant may be seized at the commencement of a suit and before summons to him, and may be held to satisfy the judgment the plaintiff may recover. In other States this writ can issue only against absconding debtors and those who conceal themselves. See Foreign, Garnishment, Trustee process.
--Bouvier.
--Burrill.
--Blackstone.Syn: Attachment, Affection.
Usage: The leading idea of affection is that of warmth and tenderness; the leading idea of attachment is that of being bound to some object by strong and lasting ties. There is more of sentiment (and sometimes of romance) in affection, and more of principle in preserving attachment. We speak of the ardor of the one, and the fidelity of the other. There is another distinction in the use and application of these words. The term attachment is applied to a wider range of objects than affection. A man may have a strong attachment to his country, to his profession, to his principles, and even to favorite places; in respect to none of these could we use the word affection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching. 2 A strong bonding towards or with. 3 A dependence, especially a strong one. 4 A device attached to a piece of equipment or a tool. 5 The means by which something is physically attached. 6 (context computing English) A file sent along with an email. 7 (context legal English) Taking a person's property to satisfy a court-ordered debt. 8 (context meteorology English) The act or process by which any (downward) leader connects to any available (upward) streamer in a lightning flash.
WordNet
n. a feeling of affection for a person or an institution [syn: fond regard]
a supplementary part or accessory
a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
a connection that fastens things together [syn: bond]
faithful support for a religion or cause or political party [syn: adherence, adhesion]
the act of attaching or affixing something [syn: affixation]
the act of fastening things together [syn: fastening]
Wikipedia
Attachment may refer to:
- Attachment theory, the psychological theory which is used by mental health professionals and social workers to describe and investigate the predictable emotional connection between individuals
- "Attachment" as a vice:
- Upādāna, a cause of suffering (in Buddhism)
- Moh, a vice in Sikh belief
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Attachment (law), a means of collecting a legal judgment by levying on property in the possession of a third party
- Attachment of earnings, collecting money owed by a debtor directly from the debtor's employer
- Rule B Attachment, provided under the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for freezing a defendant's property in pursuit of a maritime claim
- The process by which any [downward] leader "connects" to any available [upward] streamer in a lightning flash.
- The binding of a virus to its target cell
- An e-mail attachment
- AT Attachment, a computer disk drive interface standard
- Precision attachment, the functional mechanical parts of a removable partial denture
- Rental attachments, components attached to rental machinery
- Excavator#Excavator_attachments added onto construction equipment to alter its function
- Attachments (TV series), a BBC comedy-drama that ran from 2000 to 2002 about an Internet startup company
- Attachments, a 2011 novel by Rainbow Rowell
Attachment is a legal process by which a court of law, at the request of a creditor, designates specific property owned by the debtor to be transferred to the creditor, or sold for the benefit of the creditor. A wide variety of legal mechanisms are employed by debtors to prevent the attachment of their assets. For example, a declaration of bankruptcy will severely limit the ability of creditors to attach the property of the debtor. Many jurisdictions have a homestead exemption or other property exemptions which limit the ability of creditors to attach the debtor's primary residence, vehicle, and/or personal effects..
Attachment is the second studio album from South African music producer and composer Jason van Wyk. The album was recorded in 2015 and released March 3, 2016 on the French label Eilean Records with a digital release on March 24, 2016 through White Notebook. The album is a collection of piano and minimal compositional works with subtle electronic elements. A departure in style from van Wyk's previous work.
Usage examples of "attachment".
Their attachment also to the ancient royal family had been much weakened by their habits of submission to the Danish princes, and by their late election of Harold or their acquiescence in his usurpation.
Man has attachment to the soil, both spiritually and materially, possesses beast-of-prey instincts, and shows in his rhythm of sleep and waking the alternating supremacy of the tensionless plant-element in him.
I esteem it also a peculiar advantage, that I succeed to a sovereign whose constant regards for the rights and liberties of his subjects, and whose desire to promote the amelioration of the laws and institutions of the country, have rendered his name the object of general attachment and veneration.
My niece and Marcoline thought themselves the best friends in the world, and could not bear my telling them that their amorous sports were the only reason for their attachment.
Then she slipped the aqualung attachment over her mouth, cranked the hatch open, and stepped into the chambered airlock.
In my interview, calling my attachment and tender feelings to my aid, I succeeded in behaving myself in such wise that she could not possibly detect the change which a new love had worked in my heart.
There was so much attachment to Captain Wentworth in all this, and such a bewitching charm in a degree of hospitality so uncommon, so unlike the usual style of give-and-take invitations, and dinners of formality and display, that Anne felt her spirits not likely to be benefited by an increasing acquaintance among his brother-officers.
The teacher of embroidery, an old bigot, who at first appeared not to mind the attachment I skewed for Angela, got tired at last of my too frequent visits, and mentioned them to the abbe, the uncle of my fair lady.
Known in our field as the Brady Buncher, after his deep although not exclusive attachment to that series.
The harsh, angular contours of the metal had been visually softened by irregular areas of paint and the attachment of artificial foliage, Cha Thrat saw as she swam around it, no doubt to make it resemble the vegetation of the home world.
His success cemented his attachment to cryptanalysis, and he followed this demonstration of the low estate of high-level cryptography with a 100-page memorandum on the solution of American diplomatic codes.
She did not think I was married, for I had given her too many assurances to the contrary, but she thought I had a strong attachment to someone in Paris.
Their regiment had just come home, and the attachment of Dobbin to George Osborne was as warm and generous now as it had been when the two were schoolboys.
I get the impression our headmistress does not form permanent attachments with men.
Ma Nelson had herself initiated in the far-off days of their beardless and precipitously ejaculatory youth, and others who might have formed such particular attachments to Annie or to Grace that you could speak of a kind of marriage, there.