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Attach, as postage
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affix
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Word definitions for affix in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Affix \Af"fix\, n.; pl. Affixes . [L. affixus, p. p. of affigere: cf. F. affixe.] That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Arc lights affixed to a low equipment building throw harsh shadows across her face. ▪ Have we become the Huxleyan mob irretrievably affixed to the tube and addicted to its terror and its trivia? ▪ He also affixed them to mirrors, ...
Usage examples of affix.
Rather large squares, though difficult to affix, seemed more efficient than very small ones.
Upon completion, the King should affix his signature and seal to the new constitution, thus signifying his acceptance of all conditions set forth therein.
Let us draw up a set of resolutions to stand together, for the defence of our homes, to death, if needs be, and each man present affix his signature thereto.
But he is not ready to tell Botkin or Koss the wildest of his suspicions: the double helix somehow codes not only for its own messenger, but also for the elusive adaptor, the ribosome assembly line, and all the enzymes needed to recognize the adaptor, affix the amino acids, promote the growing chain, and trim the finished proteins.
Behind him, Ponter could see Dern and Adikor using power tools to affix their end of the Derkers tube to the granite floor of the quantum-computing chamber.
It was a pleasant enough diversion to affix whatever legend we could think of to that place.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed at Washington, this second day of December, A.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed, this fifteenth day of September, A.
A glass filament, not thicker than a horsehair, and from a quarter to threequarters of an inch in length, was affixed to the part to be observed by means of shellac dissolved in alcohol.
A glass filament with a bead at its end was affixed to the basal half or leg, just above the hypogean cotyledons, which were again almost surrounded by loose earth.
Their hypocotyls were secured to sticks, and glass filaments bearing little triangles of paper were affixed to the cotyledons of both.
A filament with a bead at the end was affixed to the basal leg, the movements of which were observed during two days in the usual manner.
In order to ascertain more accurately the nature of these movements, the hypocotyl of a seedling, with its cotyledons well expanded, was secured to a little stick, and a filament with triangles of paper was affixed to one of the cotyledons.
The soil was removed from around one of these arched secondary shoots, and a glass filament was affixed to the basal leg.
A filament was not affixed to it, but a mark was placed beneath the apex, which was almost white from beginning to wither, and its movements were thus traced.