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Definition of Fasten |
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Fasten
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. 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. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow. To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling. Related Definitions: Any, Anything, As, Attach, Blow, Bolt, By, Cause, Chain, Cleave, Clinch, Cling, Close, Door, Effect, Else, Fast, Fasten, Feet, Firm, Firmly, Fix, Hold, In, Knot, Lay, Lock, Make, On, One, Or, Our, Secure, Self, Something, Take, Tell, The, To, Together, Unite, Window, With |
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Fasten Quotations
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength. Charlotte Bronte I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. Julia Cameron People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. Ani DiFranco We're one of the forces that causes actors to fasten seat belts before they take off chasing the bad guy in the car... or removes some of the cigarette smoking on television. Gerald McRaney My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Clifford Geertz |
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Fasten Translations
fasten in Afrikaans is vasstel, bepaal, vasmaak fasten in Dutch is bevestigen, fixeren, bepalen fasten in French is amarrer, liaison, ficeler, verrouiller fasten in German is befestigen fasten in Italian is bendare, legare saldamente, legamento, consolidare fasten in Latin is necto, pango fasten in Norwegian is lukke, feste fasten in Portuguese is prenda fasten in Spanish is atar, aocrrar, liar, fijar, afirmar |
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