Attached is a concept that can be used as an adjective or as a noun. The term in our language comes from adiungĕre ( "add" ), in turn derived from adiunctus .
The first meaning mentioned by the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ) refers to that which is linked to something else . Based on this idea, the notion is used in different contexts.
When the adjective is applied to a person, it refers to accompanying, guarding or supporting another person in the development of some mission or work. For example: “My son was appointed deputy director of the company, I am very proud” , “The victim's family is not satisfied with the actions of the deputy prosecutor” , “Controversial statements in a television program by the deputy spokesperson of the Conservative Party ” .
The attached plugin
In the field of grammar , an adjunct complement is one that is not essential to understand the meaning of the term it is modifying. Thus, the use of the attached plugin is optional. This is a particular case of syntactic complement , since these syntactic constituents are needed to expand or clarify the meaning of a certain phrase.
In a phrase there may be other, minor ones, and only some of them are obligatory for the understanding of the message ; These are simply called complements , while the others are adjuncts , as stated in the X-bar Theory of phrases and their structure, developed by Ray Jackendoff .
While transitive verbs usually have an indispensable subject to fulfill the role of specifier, and an obligatory complement (the so-called direct object) , circumstantial or adverbial phrases are adjuncts of the same, since they do not complement it in a genuine or absolutely necessary way. We can appreciate these elements in the following example: "The musician took the violin with his right hand."
A position or rank
As a noun, adjunct is the name of a position or rank .
An adjunct can be an assistant or an assistant who is at the service of someone who occupies a higher position in the internal hierarchy of the organization : “Please ask my deputy for the documents,” “The university authorized me to hire an adjunct to the development of the postgraduate course .
Attached file
An attachment , finally, is a document that is added to an email message: “I just sent you the quote in an attachment” , “This file is too large to send as an attachment, so you will have to share it via of the cloud» , «The limit of megabytes that we can send in attachments has increased considerably in the last decade» .
Although the concept of an attachment is very common today, it is worth mentioning that when it was first offered to the general public as an option for email users it represented an important advance. The ability to share more than text messages is essential for many work activities, but it is also attractive and convenient for casual conversations: from documents to videos, the only limit is the size of the files.
Nowadays we can send attachments not only through the email service, but almost all programs that allow us to communicate with others, such as instant messaging and social network chat. In the beginning, this option simply led us to explore our directories in search of the files we wanted to send, but over time different companies began to develop more intelligent interfaces that quickly identify different types of documents, such as images, music and videos , to speed up said exploration and offer functions such as video preview.