Englishfor English speakers
attach
Verb
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If you attach mathx/math to mathy/math, you put mathx/math on mathy/math so that they will not come apart.
Warnings and instruction should be firmly attached to the container.
Attach the wire to the speaker with the red clip.
Look for spaces where the tire attaches to the rim.
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If you are attached to an office, department, location, etc. you work for that part of the organisation.
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If a quality such as importance is attached to something, people think the thing has that quality.
There was a great deal of importance attached to being well dressed.
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If something is attached to something else, there is a strong connection between them.
The promise of more money for the school is attached to better results from the students?
There is also something called ground rent, which is attached to these apartments.
point
Noun
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A point is a position with no size, or a small dot.
These two lines meet at this point.
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A point is the sharp end of a knife or other sharp thing.
He used the point of the knife to make a hole in the can.
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The point of something is the reason or purpose for it.
The whole point of coming here was to plant this tree, so let's not go home without doing it.
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A point is a dot between two numbers. To the dot's right, you find a decimal.
The price has gone up by two point five percent.
point
Verb
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To point at something is to hold one finger (or a stick, arrow or other long, thin thing) in the direction of the thing so that people will look at the thing.
He pointed her toward the gate.