Crossword clues for fasten
fasten
- Tie down, say
- Pin, tie or zip
- Nail or tack
- Connect, as a seat belt
- Buckle or button
- Zip up, maybe
- Snap or staple
- Pin, tie or glue
- Make secure, as a seat belt
- Lock into place
- Hook up, like a seat belt
- Hook up, as a seat belt
- Connect, as a child's safety seat
- Click together
- Belt or bolt
- Attach, as seat belts
- Attach something firmly
- "___ your seatbelts"
- "__ your seatbelts"
- ''__ your seat belts''
- Fix — make tight
- Buckle up, as a seat belt
- Snap a snap on, say
- Secure, as a seatbelt
- Hitch
- Tie or clasp
- Attach firmly
- Use a clasp
- Secure fellow a weapon
- Fan crossing street, European, for tie
- Join football administrators’ team, one short?
- Join fleet on bearing to the north
- Do up
- Tie up female, having a gun
- Join together
- Get together
- Attach securely
- Snap together
- Close, as seatbelts
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fasten \Fas"ten\, v. i. To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish.
--Sir T.
Browne.
Fasten \Fas"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fastened; p. pr. & vb. n. Fastening.] [AS. f[ae]stnian; akin to OHG. festin[=o]n. See Fast, a.]
To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
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To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something, or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
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To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow. [Obs.]
--Dryden.If I can fasten but one cup upon him.
--Shak.To fasten a charge upon or To fasten a crime upon, to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed.
To fasten one's eyes upon, to look upon steadily without cessation.
--Acts iii. Syn: To fix; cement; stick; link; affix; annex.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English fæstnian "make fast, make firm, fix, secure," also "ratify, betroth, confirm," from Proto-Germanic *fastinon "to make firm or fast" (cognates: Old Frisian festnia "to make firm, bind fast," Old Saxon fastnon, Old High German fastnion, German festnen, Old Norse fastna "to pledge, betroth"), from PIE *fast "solid, firm" (see fast (adj.)). Related: Fastened; fastening.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To attach or connect in a secure manner. 2 To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
WordNet
v. cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" [syn: fix, secure] [ant: unfasten]
become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back" [ant: unfasten]
attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"
make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire" [syn: tighten]
Usage examples of "fasten".
To which of the stages of language does this belong--the agglutinative, in which one root is fastened on to another, and a word is formed in which the constitutive elements are obviously distinct, or the inflexional, where the auxiliary roots get worn down and are only distinguishable by the philologist?
He fastened the embroidered peacock agraffe at her neck and pulled the hood up over her plaited hair.
There existed no ailment that could have fastened the greengrocer to his bed.
Jerry Aland, much more presentable now that he was combed and dressed, kept his eyes fastened on Wolfe.
He fastened the tails of the albacore together, hoisted the burden of more than two hundredweight to one shoulder, and led the way up the steep path.
I fell in her arms, our lips fastened together, and, in a voluptuous, ardent pressure, we enjoyed an amorous exhaustion not sufficient to allay our desires, but delightful enough to deceive them for the moment.
She had not strength to repulse the hand which I pressed amorously upon her heart, and becoming bolder I fastened my burning lips upon her languid mouth.
When the nooses had been fastened to the crosspiece the angareb was pulled away and the victims were left swinging and kicking in the air.
Then he opened his blanket and I perceived that fastened about him by a loop of hide in such a fashion that it could be drawn out in a moment, was the blade of a broad assegai, the shaft of which was shortened to about six inches.
The guilty wretch was fastened to two trees forcibly drawn towards each other, and his limbs were torn asunder by their sudden separation.
Then he fastened a head martingale on, and buckled it to the girths atwixt his fore legs.
Rohain tucked the feather inside a tapestry aulmoniere, fastened with buttons of jet.
Tad and Bap helped him into it, and fastened to his belt the tools he would need and the film packs for the cameras he would be activating.
At last the chevochic was tired out, and taking the horse back to the stable he fastened up his head once more, and to my astonishment it began to devour its provender with the greatest appetite.
Therewere always loose backs to be fastened on securely, notes to be erased from margins, pages to be mended, labels to belettered and affixed.