| 单词 | fasten |
| 释义 | fasten (once / 175 pages) v When you fasten something, you close or attach it. You might fasten your coat, closing each snap, when the sun goes down and the air gets chilly. People fasten all kinds of things: we all fasten our seat belts when we board an airplane and fasten our bathrobes by tying them in the front. Your ski goggles might fasten onto your helmet, just as your boots fasten onto your skis. You can also say that you fasten your hair with a barrette or fasten a charm bracelet around your wrist. The Old English root is fæstnian, "make fast or firm." WORD FAMILYfasten: fastened, fastener, fastening, fastens, unfasten+/fastener: fasteners/fastening: fastenings/unfasten: unfastened, unfastener, unfastening, unfastens USAGE EXAMPLESIn the visitors’ locker room, he joked with folks around him as an equipment man fastened his cuff links. Washington Post(Dec 20, 2016) When he fastened it over a T-shirt, he recalled, it suddenly “felt so subversive and cool.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 14, 2016) We were wondering how to hold the cornstalks up without fastening anything to our home. Washington Post(Dec 04, 2016) 1v attach to They fastened various nicknames to each other Hyper attach cause to be attached 2v cause to be firmly attached fasten the lock onto the door Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper fix, secure unfasten cause to become undone strap secure (a sprained joint) with a strap bind, tiefasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord rigconnect or secure to bittsecure with a bitt latchfasten with a latch garterfasten with or as if with a garter chainfasten or secure with chains cablefasten with a cable picketfasten with a picket rope upattach to one another, for safety cinch, girthtie a cinch around bandage, bindwrap around with something so as to cover or enclose crampsecure with a cramp cleatsecure on a cleat anchor, cast anchor, drop anchorsecure a vessel with an anchor anchor, groundfix firmly and stably moorsecure with cables or ropes berth, moor, tie upsecure in or as if in a berth or dock spikesecure with spikes run up, sew, sew together, stitchfasten by sewing; do needlework crankfasten with a crank noosesecure with a noose chocksecure with chocks bradfasten with brads bightfasten with a bight belayfasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat belayturn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him barsecure with, or as if with, bars clampfasten or fix with a clamp velcrofasten with Velcro stayfasten with stays clinchflatten the ends (of nails and rivets) clinchsecure or fasten by flattening the ends of nails or bolts lockfasten with a lock lock upsecure by locking haspsecure or lock with a hasp zip, zip up, zipperclose with a zipper tackfasten with tacks stringstring together; tie or fasten with a string hookfasten with a hook beltfasten with a belt cementbind or join with or as if with cement groutbind with grout staplesecure or fasten with a staple or staples rivetfasten with a rivet or rivets buttonfasten with buttons pinattach or fasten with pins or as if with pins hang, hang upcause to be hanging or suspended hangplace in position as by a hinge so as to allow free movement in one direction deposit, lodge, stick, wedgeput, fix, force, or implant entrench, intrenchfix firmly or securely buckle, claspfasten with a buckle or buckles brooch, claspfasten with or as if with a brooch staketie or fasten to a stake wirefasten with wire coaptfit tightly and fasten jogglefasten or join with a joggle jointfasten with a joint togglefasten with, or as if with, a toggle gag, muzzletie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them retietie again or anew bind off, tie upfinish the last row loopfasten or join with a loop cordbind or tie with a cord lash togetherbind together with a cord or rope trusstie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it leash, ropefasten with a rope straptie with a strap knottie or fasten into a knot lashbind with a rope, chain, or cord bandbind or tie together, as with a band wharfmoor at a wharf hemfold over and sew together to provide with a hem resewsew again overcastsew with an overcast stitch from one section to the next overcastsew over the edge of with long slanting wide stitches backstitchdo backstitches gather, pucker, tuckdraw together into folds or puckers finedrawsew together very finely fellsew a seam by folding the edges baste, tacksew together loosely, with large stitches hemstitchsew with hemstitches retick, ticksew padlockfasten with a padlock boltsecure or lock with a bolt thumbtackfasten with thumbtacks suspendhang freely lace, lace updraw through eyes or holes redepositdeposit anew cast onmake the first row of stitches when knitting cast offmake the last row of stitches when knitting slinghang loosely or freely; let swing attach cause to be attached 3v become fixed or fastened This dress fastens in the back Ant|Hypo|Hyper unfasten become undone or untied glue be fixed as if by glue stickfasten into place by fixing an end or point into something stickfasten with or as with pins or nails stickfasten with an adhesive material like glue attach become attached 4v make tight or tighter Syn|Hypo|Hyper tighten frap take up the slack of firm, tautenmake taut or tauter screwtighten or fasten by means of screwing motions wind, wind upcoil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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