attach to

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Verb	1.	attach to - be present or associated with an event or entity; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" accompany, come with, go with collocate with, construe with, cooccur with, co-occur with, go with - go or occur together; "The word 'hot' tends to cooccur with 'cold'" attend - to accompany as a circumstance or follow as a result; "Menuhin's playing was attended by a 15-minute standing ovation" rule - have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac
	2.	attach to - be part of; "This problem inheres in the design" inhere in include - have as a part, be made up out of; "The list includes the names of many famous writers" repose, reside, rest - be inherent or innate in;

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His affection was proved to have been sincere, and his conduct cleared of all blame, unless any could attach to the implicitness of his confidence in his friend.

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The lice, which are visible to the naked eye, attach to fish and draw blood and nutrients.

Farm salmon spread deadly lice

(e) Casualty and theft losses: Complete Form 4684, Casualties and Thefts, and attach to the return.

IRS releases 2005 guidelines for "adequate disclosure"

"The most common mistake people make when they attach to a tree," he says, "is that that the framing members of the tree house are immediately adjacent to the trunk of the tree, and of course that's untenable because the tree has to grow."

The view from above

The front suspension is a short and long arm design with a high upper A-arms (which places the upper ball joint above the tires), and the lateral lower links and tension struts attach to the steering knuckle via separate ball joints.

Engineering the LX; Chrysler Group builds a quintessentially American car: a large, rear-wheel-drive car with just a touch of Mercedes

Unlike PCs, consumer electronics that attach to the Internet will come in all types of sizes and shapes, each demanding unique things of the chips that drive them.

NEW IBM CHIPS TO DRIVE INNOVATIVE, LOWER-POWER INTERNET APPLIANCES

In addition, because routers can have a built-in programmable driver, one can attach to any storage or network equipment that is compatible with Fibre Channel, SCSI, or IBM serial disk protocols.

Understanding The Storage Paradigm Shift

Mammalian cells, in contrast, convert fucose from their surroundings into a form called guanosine diphosphate-fucose (GDP-fucose), which they attach to their surface proteins.