attaching
Sayuh-TACH-ing/əˈtæt͡ʃɪŋ/
- 1Present participle of attach.
Attaching the trailer to the car took longer than expected.
The clerk kept attaching new labels to each folder in the stack.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs: after a form of be it builds the progressive (she was attaching the cable), and in noun positions it works as a gerund (attaching files is easy). In either role the verb keeps its pattern of one thing attached to another, as in attaching blame to a rival or a document to an email. In law it can also run without an object, as when rights are said to be attaching to a property.
attaching is a form of attach
attach, verb: To fasten or join one thing to another, either physically or in a figurative sense. Full entry
- Spelling
- attach → attaching: add -ing
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