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FASTENED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fastened with strings or cords
Example:
a neatly tied bundle
Synonyms:
fastened; tied
Classified under:
Similar:
knotted (tied with a knot)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike
Synonyms:
buttoned; fastened
Classified under:
Similar:
botonee; botonnee ((of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm)
button-down (of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Firmly closed or secured
Example:
a fastened seatbelt
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
pegged-down (fastened by pegs)
Antonym:
unfastened (not closed or secured)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fasten
Context examples:
They were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam; they held their food between the claws of their fore feet, and tore it with their teeth.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Both of them were fastened on the inside.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The window was certainly shut and fastened upon the inside.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My fingers had fastened on her hand which lay outside the sheet: had she pressed mine kindly, I should at that moment have experienced true pleasure.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"These bits of lace are fastened under the chin with a rosebud, so," and Meg illustrated by putting on the bonnet and regarding him with an air of calm satisfaction that was irresistible.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Soon the flaccid organ began to slowly expand and show such a tendency to upward movements that Challenger fastened the cords which held it to the trunks of the surrounding trees.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A volume made up of pages fastened along one edge and enclosed between protective covers.
(Book, NCI Thesaurus)
It was not the axe, however, but a branch which he had fastened to a withered tree which the wind was blowing backwards and forwards.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
François fastened upon him an arrangement of straps and buckles.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Relieved of the incubus that had fastened upon him for so long a time, and of the dreadful apprehensions under which he had lived, he is hardly the same person.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
