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un·at·tached

(ŭn′ə-tăcht′)

adj.

1. Not joined, especially to surrounding tissue.

a. Not committed to or dependent on another person or group.

b. Not married, engaged, or involved in a serious sexual or romantic relationship.

3. Law Of or relating to property that has not been seized by legal writ.

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unattached

(ˌʌnəˈtætʃt)

adj

1. not connected with any specific thing, body, group, etc; independent

2. not engaged or married

3. (Law) (of property) not seized or held as security or in satisfaction of a judgment

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un•at•tached

(ˌʌn əˈtætʃt)

adj.

1. not attached.

2. not associated with any particular group, organization, or the like; independent.

3. not engaged, married, or involved with another.

[1490–1500]

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Adj.	1.	unattached - not fastened together unconnected - not joined or linked together
	2.	unattached - not associated in an exclusive sexual relationship uncommitted committed, attached - associated in an exclusive sexual relationship
	3.	unattached - (of animals) able to swim about; not attached free-swimming animal, animate being, beast, creature, fauna, brute - a living organism characterized by voluntary movement vagile - having freedom to move about; "vagile aquatic animals"

unattached

adjective

1. single, available, unmarried, on your own, by yourself, a free agent, not spoken for, left on the shelf, footloose and fancy-free, unengaged Those who are unattached may find that a potential mate is very close.

2. (often with to) independent (from), unaffiliated (to), nonaligned (to), free (from), autonomous (from), uncommitted (to) There's one nursery which is unattached to any school.
independent (from) attached (to), affiliated (to), aligned (to), involved (with), committed (to), dependent (on)

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unattached

adjective

Without a spouse:

fancy-free, footloose, lone, single, sole, spouseless, unmarried, unwed.

Idiom: footloose and fancy-free.

Translations

بِلا ارْتِباط، أعْزَب

volný

enligsingle

ledig unabhängig

libre suelto

erillinenirrallinensitoutumaton

ólofaîur, á lausu

libero

nesusižiedavęs

neprecējiesnesaderināts

alleenstaand ongehuwd

uforlovet

bağımsızevli ya da nişanlı olmayan

未婚的

unattached

[ˈʌnəˈtætʃt] ADJ

1. (= loose) → suelto (fig) (gen) → libre; [employee] → disponible

2. (= unmarried) → soltero, libre

3. (Mil) → de reemplazo

4. (Jur) → no embargado

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unattached

[ˌʌnəˈtætʃt] adj [person] → sans attaches

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unattached

adj

(= not fastened) → unbefestigt; (Mil) → keinem Regiment/keiner Einheit etc zugeteilt; (US) athlete → ohne Vereinszugehörigkeit; unattached vote → Wechselwähler m

(emotionally) → ungebunden; she’s worried about still being unattached → sie macht sich Sorgen, weil sie immer noch keinen Partner gefunden hat; there aren’t many unattached girls around → die meisten Mädchen hier sind nicht mehr zu haben or sind nicht mehr frei

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unattached

[ˌʌnəˈtætʃt] adj (part) → staccato/a; (not married) → libero/a, senza legami; (independent) → indipendente, sciolto/a

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unattached

(anəˈtӕtʃt) adjective

not married or engaged to be married. A woman sometimes gives up hope of marriage if she is still unattached at the age of thirty.

unattached

a. suelto-a, sin conexión.

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How could it be that she who had always been in such demand, so needed, so driven by real duties, should have become suddenly such a supernumerary, so footloose, and unattached?

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"They would be less objectionable to the people round here who might like to come and see you," she remarked, "than two unattached young ladies."

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They were mongrels, kept spotlessly and germicidally clean, who were unattached and untrained.

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This young man wore the garb of a captain of the king's unattached archers, which bears far too much resemblance to the costume of Jupiter, which the reader has already been enabled to admire in the first book of this history, for us to inflict upon him a second description.

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On the coast-mountains, at the height of about 2000 feet where during this season the clouds generally hang, a very few cacti were growing in the clefts of rock; and the loose sand was strewed over with a lichen, which lies on the surface quite unattached. This plant belongs to the genus Cladonia, and somewhat resembles the reindeer lichen.

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It would seem that, in such cases, the feeling of belief exists unattached, without its usual relation to a content believed, just as the feeling of familiarity may sometimes occur without being related to any definite familiar object.

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I swam doggedly on, hoping that that was the last unattached shark.

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| UNDER-12s Boys 1 Israel Noble (unattached) 21:23.903; 2 Ross Eastaugh (Grampian Tigers) 21:27.214; 3 Aaron Considine (Deeside Thistle) 21:36.305.

RESULTS ROUND-UP: ALL THE PODIUM PLACES FROM YESTERDAY'S AFTERNOON RACES

Veteran Female - 1 Joanne Clark (Unattached) 2:16:19; 2 Sian Tovey (Unattached) 2:17:15; 3 Deborah Comer (Lanark Triathlon Club) 2:18:30.

Ewan and Alison are leading duo; DUATHLON

It is understood Rafa Benitez made an enquiry to his staff as to whether or not signing an unattached goalkeeper was an avenue United could explore in the wake of Elliot's knee injury - though he had not specifically pinpointed a free agent who could be approached - but he was informed of the fact Newcastle already have 25 players in their squad.

Can Newcastle United sign a free-agent goalkeeper to replace Rob Elliot? Newcastle United goalkeeper Rob Elliot has been ruled out for the campaign, but can the Magpies approach an unattached keeper to replace him?

11:30) based on the Talmud: unattached follicle," Jewish Bible Quarterly, 40:4 (2012) pp.

NOTE ON THE TERM PAKAD: IMPLICATIONS REGARDING SARAH'S INFERTILITY

ST M ST MIRR RR RREN IN- N - Yoann ArquIN- Yoann Arquin (Unattached), Emmanuel (Unattached), Emmanuel Sonupe (Spurs, loan), James Sonupe (Spurs, loan), James Dayton (Oldham, loan).