fastened (verb)

  • 11zip up — verb close with a zipper Zip up your jacket it s cold • Syn: ↑zipper, ↑zip • Ant: ↑unzip • Derivationally related forms: ↑zip (for: ↑ …

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  • 12bow to sb/sth phrasal — verb (T) to finally agree to do something that people want you to, even though you do not want to do it: Congress may bow to public pressure and lift the arms embargo. 2 noun 1 (C) the act of bending the top part of your body forward to show… …

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  • 13infix — verb (t) /ɪnˈfɪks/ (say in fiks) 1. to fix, fasten, or drive in: he infixed the fatal spear. 2. to implant: the habits they infixed. 3. to fix in the mind or memory, as a fact or idea; impress. 4. Grammar to add as an infix. –verb (i) /ɪnˈfɪks/… …

  • 14depend — verb /dɪˈpɛnd/ a) To hang down; to be sustained by being fastened or attached to something above. The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles… …

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  • 15tape out — verb Of a piece of land, to measure out so as to be able to accurately fire upon it Tracks made of wooden slabs fastened together were the only roads by which men and pack mules could cross this quagmire, and each of these ways became taped out… …

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  • 16fasten — verb /ˈfæsən,ˈfæsn̩/ To attach or connect in a secure manner. The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half hitch. See Also: bedfast, breastfast, colorfast, cragfast, handfast, headfast, holdfast, makefast, sitfast, shamefast …

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  • 17unclip — verb (unclips, unclipping, unclipped) release from being fastened or held with a clip …

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  • 18disengage — verb 1 (T) to separate something from something else that is fastened to it or holding it: disengage yourself: Sally found it difficult to disengage herself from his embrace. 2 (I, T) if you disengage part of a machine or if it disengages, you… …

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  • 19inlay — verb (t) /ɪnˈleɪ / (say in lay) (inlaid, inlaying) 1. to decorate (an object) with veneers of fine materials set in its surface. 2. to insert, or apply (layers of fine materials) in a surface of an object. 3. Horticulture to place (a fitted… …

  • 20fasten — [[t]fɑ͟ːs(ə)n, fæ̱s [/t]] fastens, fastening, fastened 1) V ERG When you fasten something, you close it by means of buttons or a strap, or some other device. If something fastens with buttons or straps, you can close it in this way. [V n] She got …

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