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Annexation
verb · 78% connection
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the Unit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Attach
verb · 78% connection
To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Attachment
noun · 78% connection
The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; an/ passion of affection that binds a p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Bind
verb · 78% connection
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Blanch
adjective · 78% connection
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Brooch
noun · 78% connection
An ornament, in various forms, with a tongue, pin, or loop for attaching it to a garment; now worn at the breast by women; a breastpin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Buck
noun · 78% connection
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Climb
verb · 78% connection
To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Collapse
verb · 78% connection
To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Connect
verb · 78% connection
To join, or fasten together, as by something intervening; to associate; to combine; to unite or link together; to establish a bond or…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Corking pin
unknown · 78% connection
A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
covalent bond
noun · 78% connection
A bond in which atoms share electrons.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Distoma
noun · 78% connection
A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Escrow
noun · 78% connection
A deed, bond, or other written engagement, delivered to a third person, to be held by him till some act is done or some condition is p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Halter
noun · 78% connection
One who halts or limps; a cripple.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Hobble
n. i. · 78% connection
To walk lame, bearing chiefly on one leg; to walk with a hitch or hop, or with crutches.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.
Hydrogen bond
noun · 78% connection
a chemical bond consisting of a hydrogen atom between two electronegative atoms (e.g., oxygen or nitrogen) with one side being a coval…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: tying, together, attaching, some, bond.