Attachment Meaning
/əˈtæt͡ʃmənt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe act or process of (physically or figuratively) attaching.
nounA strong bonding with or fondness for someone or something.
Sentence Examples
Would you please send me details of your products via e-mail as an attachment?
I feel a strong attachment to this house.
CEFR Practice Quiz
He sent the report as an ____ in his email to the manager.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I sent the document as an ____ in the email I sent yesterday morning.
Word Origin & History
From French attachement. By surface analysis, attach + -ment.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The “implantation window” is a short, specific phase during which attachment of the blastocyst occurs."
— 2005, Rebecca N. Baergen, Manual of Benirschke and Kaufmann's Pathology of the Human Placenta, page 71:
"Through every other kind of drug experience, however, ran his attachment to alcohol."
— 2003, Griffith Edwards, Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug, page 63:
"Zimchenko's phone had a tape attachment, […]"
— 1978, Walter H. Wager, Time of reckoning, page 194:
"[The umbilical cord is] the attachment connecting the fetus with the placenta."
— 2012, Sinikka Elliott, Not My Kid: What Parents Believe about the Sex Lives of Their Teenagers, page 46:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
He sent the report as an ____ in his email to the manager.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I sent the document as an ____ in the email I sent yesterday morning.