fastened

«fastened» in Mova's school dictionary: closed or joined firmly, like a seatbelt or a button that… — 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 (past tense and past participle of «fasten»: fasten, fastens, fastened, fastening); adjective (fastened = closed, done up)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fastened means closed or joined firmly, like a seatbelt or a button that is done up. tree →

2) Fastened means fixed firmly to something, like a picture fastened to a wall. tree →

3) «Fastened on» can mean fixed your attention or eyes on something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday safety, seatbelts must be fastened in cars and planes, and helmet straps fastened before riding. At school coats, shoes and bags are fastened with buttons, zips, buckles or Velcro. In stories a gate is fastened shut, or a character's eyes are fastened on something. Phrases: «fastened securely», «fastened tightly», «keep your seatbelt fastened».

examples

• Make sure your seatbelt is fastened. tree →
• She fastened her coat and went out. tree →
• He fastened his helmet before riding. tree →
• The gate was fastened with a chain. tree →
• The poster was fastened to the wall with tape. tree →
• Keep your seatbelt fastened while seated. tree →
• I fastened the buttons on my cardigan. tree →
• His eyes were fastened on the cake. tree →
• On each stake he fastened a duck to roast. tree →

note

The t is silent: FAH-sund (UK) or FAS-und (US). Base verb «fasten». Opposite: unfastened. Not related to «fast» (quick), though «fast» can also mean firmly fixed («stuck fast»).

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 put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.
• Whereupon were the foundations thereof fastened?
• And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

Trees and pragmatics

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