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{
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"word": "attachable"
},
{
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"word": "attached annulus"
},
{
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"word": "attacher"
},
{
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"word": "attachment"
},
{
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"word": "get attached"
},
{
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"word": "no string attached"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "no-strings-attached"
},
{
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"word": "no strings attached"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "reattach"
},
{
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"word": "semi-attached"
},
{
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"word": "string attached"
},
{
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"word": "strings attached"
},
{
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"word": "would lose one's head if it wasn't attached"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "attachen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English attachen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "atachier"
},
"expansion": "Old French atachier",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "estachier",
"3": "",
"4": "bind"
},
"expansion": "estachier (“bind”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
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"2": "estache",
"3": "",
"4": "stick"
},
"expansion": "estache (“stick”)",
"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "frk",
"3": "*stakkā"
},
"expansion": "Frankish *stakkā",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "frk",
"2": "*stakō",
"t": "stick"
},
"expansion": "*stakō (“stick”)",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*stakô",
"t": "pole, bar, stick, stake"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "attack"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of attack",
"name": "doublet"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "stake"
},
"expansion": "stake",
"name": "m"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "stack"
},
"expansion": "stack",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English attachen, from Old French atachier, variant of estachier (“bind”), derived from estache (“stick”), from Frankish *stakkā, *stakō (“stick”), from Proto-Germanic *stakô (“pole, bar, stick, stake”). Doublet of attack. More at stake, stack.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "attaches",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "attaching",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "attached",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "attached",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"expansion": "attach (third-person singular simple present attaches, present participle attaching, simple past and past participle attached)",
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}
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"at‧tach"
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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{
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"word": "attachment"
}
],
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{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "detach"
},
{
"word": "unfasten"
},
{
"word": "disengage"
},
{
"word": "separate"
},
{
"word": "disconnect"
}
],
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"examples": [
{
"text": "You need to attach the carabiner to your harness.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "An officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist",
"text": "Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively)."
],
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"links": [
[
"fasten",
"fasten"
],
[
"join",
"join"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fasten, to join to (literally and figuratively)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "connect"
},
{
"word": "annex"
},
{
"word": "affix"
},
{
"word": "unite"
},
{
"word": "join"
}
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "rabaṭa",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "رَبَطَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "hodel",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "հոդել"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "qoşmaq"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "aṭkanō",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "আটকানো"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "bn",
"lang": "Bengali",
"roman": "laganō",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "লাগানো"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zakrepvam",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "закрепвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prikrepvam",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "прикрепвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "chr",
"lang": "Cherokee",
"note": "a flexible object",
"roman": "gasanenadvsga",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ᎦᏌᏁᎾᏛᏍᎦ"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fùshàng",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附上"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fù",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附筆"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fùbǐ",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附笔"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fùjiā",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附加"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fùyǒu",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附有"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "připojit"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "přiložit"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "připevnit"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "přichytit se"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "vastmaken"
},
{
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "kroĉi"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "alligi"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "kaasama"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "liittää"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "attacher"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "unir"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anbringen"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "haftjan",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "episynápto",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "επισυνάπτω"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "exáptō",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ἐξάπτω"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ht",
"lang": "Haitian Creole",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "tache"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "khibér",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "חיבר"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "csatol"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "kapcsol"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "atachar"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ceangail"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "greamaigh"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "legare"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "appiccare"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"alt": "つける",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsukeru",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "付ける"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"alt": "てんぷする",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tenpu surú",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "添付する"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "cheombuhada",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "첨부하다"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "buchida",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "붙이다"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "adiciō"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "applicō"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "apō"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "illigō"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "nectō"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ml",
"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "ghaṭippikkuka",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ഘടിപ്പിക്കുക"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakapiri"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakapiripiri"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakamau"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakarapa"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "aropiri"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "takmak",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "طاقمق"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "pms",
"lang": "Piedmontese",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "taché"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "przytwierdzić"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "umocować"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "zamocować"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "przymocować"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anexar"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "watay"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "lega"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "atașa"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anexa"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikrepljátʹ",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прикрепля́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikrepítʹ",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "прикрепи́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anexar"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "adjuntar"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "fästa"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "sätta fast"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "bifoga"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "vidfoga"
},
{
"_dis1": "62 2 4 22 5 3 2",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtìt",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ติด"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy",
"text": "The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To adhere; to be attached."
],
"id": "en-attach-en-verb-F2drE5xF",
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To adhere; to be attached."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "cling"
},
{
"word": "stick"
},
{
"word": "adhere"
}
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Dower will attach.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Thomas M. Cooley, A Treatise on the Law of Taxation",
"text": "it therefore becomes important to know at what time the lien for taxes will attach.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest."
],
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"links": [
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"vest",
"vest"
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{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"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."
],
"id": "en-attach-en-verb-OUxT3Nfr"
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to attach great importance to a particular circumstance",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature",
"text": "To this treasure a curse is attached.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; with to."
],
"id": "en-attach-en-verb-WWZ0FkWh"
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 4, scene 3, lines 351–352",
"text": "Then homeward every man attach the hand / Of his fair mistress.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To take, seize, or lay hold of."
],
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"ref": "1838, Henry Brougham, Political Philosophy",
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"ref": "1886, Thomas M. Cooley, A Treatise on the Law of Taxation",
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"ref": "1879, Bayard Taylor, Studies in German Literature",
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"ref": "c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, act 4, scene 3, lines 351–352",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "আটকানো"
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ᎦᏌᏁᎾᏛᏍᎦ"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "fùshàng",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "附上"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
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{
"code": "cmn",
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{
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{
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "cs",
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{
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{
"code": "eo",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "et",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "kaasama"
},
{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
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{
"code": "got",
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"roman": "haftjan",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "he",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "חיבר"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "io",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "atachar"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "legare"
},
{
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"alt": "つける",
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"roman": "tsukeru",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "付ける"
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{
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "ko",
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"roman": "cheombuhada",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "첨부하다"
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{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "buchida",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "applicō"
},
{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "apō"
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "la",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "ml",
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"roman": "ghaṭippikkuka",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ഘടിപ്പിക്കുക"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakapiripiri"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakamau"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "whakarapa"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "aropiri"
},
{
"code": "ota",
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"roman": "takmak",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "طاقمق"
},
{
"code": "pms",
"lang": "Piedmontese",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "taché"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anexar"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "watay"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "lega"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "atașa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anexa"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikrepljátʹ",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "прикрепля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prikrepítʹ",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "прикрепи́ть"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "anexar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "adjuntar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
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},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "sätta fast"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "bifoga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "vidfoga"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "dtìt",
"sense": "to fasten, to join to",
"word": "ติด"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zadérživatʹ",
"sense": "to arrest, seize",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "заде́рживать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zaderžátʹ",
"sense": "to arrest, seize",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "задержа́ть"
}
],
"word": "attach"
}
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