fasten

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And when the "fasten your seatbelts"-sign is switched off, the rest of the passengers go "click".

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Quick take

cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fasten gathered in one view.

verb

cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"

verb

become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back"

verb

attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fasten.

verb

cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"

verb

become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back"

verb

attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"

verb

make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire"

Example sentences

And when the "fasten your seatbelts"-sign is switched off, the rest of the passengers go "click".

Or your passengers don't fasten their seatbelts and kill you on their way to the windshield.

But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts.

For viaduct you've got to build the bridge, then put down the ties, then put rail on top of those, fasten it down, etc.

\nCan we slow down or fasten the rotation of Earth by current Human technology/processes?

I always assumed that "bolt" refers to the threaded fasteners, not electrical bolts.

Honestly, this is what I expected the article to be: "Step 1: Turn on ILS. Step 2: Have a beverage and flip the fasten seatbelts sign on-- here's where it is on the instrument panel.

Strap magazines on your body and fasten with belts, like in The Wire when Omar when to jail or did you have something fancier in mind?

> a new big "safe" vehicle> doing about 40> She was killed instantly, one of the boys is paralyzed from the neck downthat's what happens when you don't fasten your seatbelts.

On flights I've been on recently, they declared a fasten-seatbelts-and-stay-seated order in the cabin when one of the pilots stepped out to use the restroom.

He claims to have "deconstructed" redemptive truth and put something better in its place; but all he's really done is fasten on to his own particular brand of redemptive truth.

We should stop calling anything a button which is not used to fasten cloth via a buttonhole, even if the entire English-speaking world uses the term euphemistically to refer to round things.