fasten

«fasten» in Mova's school dictionary: To close, join or fix something so it stays shut or in… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (fasten, fastens, fastened, fastening)

meaning for a pupil

1) To close, join or fix something so it stays shut or in place: fasten a seatbelt, a button, a gate. tree →

2) To attach one thing to another. tree →

3) To fix your eyes or attention on something. tree →

sense in the lessons

Safety lessons: «Fasten your seatbelt», «fasten your helmet strap». In everyday life: fasten buttons, zips, buckles and shoes. In stories: «Her eyes fastened on the door» (she stared at it).

examples

• Fasten your seatbelt before we drive off. tree →
• I can't fasten this button. tree →
• Fasten the gate so the dog can't get out. tree →
• He fastened the poster to the wall with tape. tree →
• Make sure your helmet is fastened. tree →
• Her eyes fastened on the cake. tree →
• Can you help me fasten my shoes? tree →
• You can sit on my back, and fasten yourself on with your sash. tree →

note

The t is silent: FAH-sen (UK) / FASS-en (US). Regular verb. Opposite: unfasten. Noun: fastening or fastener.

In the corpora

• Your seat belt stays fastened whenever you are seated on a plane, because sudden bumps called turbulence can happen.
• Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you if the plane hits sudden bumps.
• And they tied unto it a thread of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as the LORD commanded Moses.
• And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
• They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fasten» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.