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AFFIXED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Firmly attached
Example:
the affixed labels
Classified under:
Similar:
appendant (affixed as an appendage)
basifixed (attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks))
glued; pasted (affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste)
mounted (assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support)
Antonym:
unaffixed (not affixed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb affix
Context examples:
Issue associated with users being unclear and not able to follow any written, printed, or graphic matter that is affixed to a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including verbal instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufactures that vary from the standard of medical care in a given environment.
(Confusing Instruction for Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)
After Martin had helped her on the car, he hurried to the post-office and invested three of the five dollars in stamps; and when, later in the day, on the way to the Morse home, he stopped in at the post-office to weigh a large number of long, bulky envelopes, he affixed to them all the stamps save three of the two-cent denomination.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
This term describes an experiment in which probes representing genes that one wants to study are affixed to a substrate (e.g., a glass slide) and then exposed to target molecules (sometimes referred to as the sample).
(DNA Microarray Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)
When given, he viewed me to learn the result; it was not striking: I am sure I did not blush; perhaps I might have turned a little pale, for I felt as if this kiss were a seal affixed to my fetters.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Fine gentlemen smiled at her benevolently as they talked with Martin and one another; a type-writer clicked; signatures were affixed to an imposing document; her own landlord was there, too, and affixed his signature; and when all was over and she was outside on the sidewalk, her landlord spoke to her, saying, Well, Maria, you won't have to pay me no seven dollars and a half this month.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
