Attachment Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

attachment n
1. a feeling of affection for a person or an institution [syn: fond regard]
2. a supplementary part or accessory
3. a writ authorizing the seizure of property that may be needed for the payment of a judgment in a judicial proceeding
4. a connection that fastens things together [syn: bond]
5. faithful support for a religion or cause or political party [syn: adherence, adhesion]
6. the act of attaching or affixing something [syn: affixation]
7. the act of fastening things together [syn: fastening]

Attachment Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Attachment \At*tach"ment\, n. [F. attachment.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.).
4. (Giv. Law) (a) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process. (b) 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

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* The self-controlled soul, who moves amongst sense objects, free from either attachment or repulsion, he wins eternal Peace. - Bhagavad Gita

* On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction. - Bhagavad Gita

* Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself. - Claude Roy


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