attach

verb8

1. •
   To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively).

   • You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.
   • An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
2. •
   To adhere; to be attached.

   • The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. — 1838
3. •
   To include an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).

   • I've attached the contract to this email.
4. •
   To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to.

   • Some of the guilt must attach to the parents.
5. •
   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.

   • attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery
6. •
   To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest.

   • Dower will attach.
7. •
   (no longer used) To take, seize, or lay hold of.

   • Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress. — 1595
8. •
   (no longer used) To arrest, seize.

   • Eftsoones the Gard, which on his state did wait, / Attacht that faitor false, and bound him strait […] — 1590