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Definition: Fastening |
FasteningNoun1. Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place. 2. The act of fastening things together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fastening" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: FasteningSynonyms: attachment (n), fastener (n), holdfast (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Connection | Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders. |
Pendency | Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Fig. 1. Method of attaching glass floats to top of nets Fig. 2. Method of fastening sinkers to foot of nets From Bulletin U.S. Fish Commission, Vol. I, drawing by Capt. J. W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |  | A civilian conservation corps telephone lineman fastening a telephone wire to a glass insulator atop a telephone pole in one of the National forests. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Southeast Missouri Farms Project. Fastening pump on well. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Fastening the stock with corrugated staples. Screen door construction. Charles County, La Plata, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | National Aeronautic Association of the United States of America. Leather strap with buckle fastening. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Jean Racine | It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a discussion on the means of fastening the front door |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I let my shirt down to my waist, and drew up the bottom, fastening it like a girdle about my middle to hide my nakedness |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | It is a revolutionary device, rotating the gears by 180 degrees and allowing total flexibility of fastening points and easy installation on all car models. (references) | |
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| "Fastening" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.91% of the time. "Fastening" is used about 94 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 81.91% | 77 | 37,929 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.96% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.13% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 94 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Japan | Japan Power Fastening Co., Ltd. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "fastening": fastening part ♦ screw fastening ♦ threaded fastening ♦ velcro fastening. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fastening": dress-fastening, star-fastening, through-fastening, velcro-fastening. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fastening"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | fiksim (complex, fixation, fixing, hitch), tokëz (buckle, clasp, fastener), shtrëngim (clutch, coercion, compulsion, constriction, constringency, contraction, grasp, grip, gripe, griping, hug, jam, jamming, jaw, pinch, pressure, restraint, squeeze, strangulation), mbërthim (brace, grapple, grappling iron, grasp, grip, hook, seizing), bravë (hasp, lock). (various references) | |
Arabic | حكم (administer, administration, arbiter, arbitration, ascendancy, authority, award, control, decide, decision, deliverance, determination, dispensation, doom, fasten, find, finding, govern, hand down, judge, judgement, judgment, opinion, reckon, referee, regimen, rule, ruling, run, sway, umpire, verdict), المربطة أداة ربط (fastener), إبزيم (buckle, clasp, fibula), ثبت (affirm, anchor, assure, aver, belay, belt, bend, bite, bolt, bolt on, brace, cable, catch, chock, confirm, corroborate, countersign, demonstrate, display, endure, establish, evince, fix, lash, last, pin down, plant, prove, reinforce, secure, set, spike, stabilize, stay, steady, stick, strengthen, substantiate, testify, validate, verify, warrant). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | затягане (clinch, trimming), закопчалка (fastener, hasp, snap, snap fastener), заключване (bolting, locking), завързване. (various references) | |
Chinese | 紧固 (Fasten, Fastened). (various references) | |
Czech | zapínání, uzávìr (bolt, cover, lock, locking device, seal, snap, stopper, top), připevnìní (attachment, fixing), háèek (catch, crochet hook, hiccup, hitch, hook, knot). (various references) | |
Danish | fastgørelsesmiddel (fastener), tilsynsplan, metalring, lukning (capping, closure, sealing), hæftning (lacing, sewing, stitching), bindemiddel (adhesive, adhesive medium, agglutinant, binder, binding agent, bonding agent, bonding material, cement, excipient, fastener, paint vehicle, vehicle). (various references) | |
Dutch | sluiting (buckle, catch, closure, fastener, fastening device, hurricane, latch, lock, metal lace, sealing, shackle, spring hawser), opnemingstekening, hechtmiddel (adherent, adhering agent, adhesive, fastener, sticker), hechtingen, gesp (buckle). (various references) | |
Finnish | kiinnitys (mortgage). (various references) | |
French | fixer (fasten, make fast), fermoir (fastener), fermeture (fastener), récolement, liage, laçage, bouclerie, attache (fastener), agrafe (fastener, rope fastener), agrafages, agrafage. (various references) | |
German | befestigend (affixing, appending, fixating, fixing, fortifying, gartering), anbindend (tethering). (various references) | |
Greek | στερέωση (fixation, fixing). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ""ק (clamp, clip, fastener, stapler), אחוי (fastened, knitting, mended, mending, splice, stiched), ""וק (constriction, drawing close, fast, tight, tightening, tightly bound), רכיס" (buttoning, clasp). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rögzítés (anchorage, crabbing, fixation, fixing, lashing, locking, setting, stabilization), zár (bolt, latch, lock, obturator, occlusion, snap, sneck, to fasten), tolózár (bolt, fastener, latch, sliding bolt, sneck, valve), retesz (bolt, catch, fastener, finger, hasp, latch, slide, sliding bolt, sneck, tumbler), odaerősítés, leszorítás (arrest, depression, fixing, strangulation), kapcsolás (copulative, coupling, joint, scheme, stud), gombolás (fly). (various references) | |
Italian | fissazione (fixation, fixing, obsession), fissaggio (fixing, pointing), fibbia (buckle, clasp), fermaglio (clasp, clip, fastener, hasp), schema delle varianti apportate al progetto iniziale, legatura (binding, bookbinding, cover, ligature, slur, socket), gancio (catch, clasp, clip, crook, crotchet, fastener, hanger, hook), chiusura (clam, clamp, closing, closure, end, lock, shutdown, shutting, zip), attacco (access, aggression, assault, attack, binding, bout, connection, connexion, fit, junction, offense, onfall, onset, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, team, thrust, turn), attaccamento (adhesion, attachment), allacciatura (binding, cable clench, cable stopper, linking, looping, turning-off), agganciatura. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "ル風 (binding, bingo, eddies of wind around high buildings, foot fastening, green pepper, pea coat, pea jacket, peace, peach, peacock, peahen, peak, peanut, peanut butter, peanuts, peas, peek, peep show, Peeping Tom, people, people's capitalism, Peter Pan syndrome, Piaget, pianica, pianist, piano, piano and harmonica, piazza, piece, piecework, piercer, pimento, PR, public relations, Russian food, velvet, village, vintage, vintage year), 接着 (fastening with glue), 戸 まり (closing up, fastening the doors), 戸 り (closing up, fastening the doors), "目 (fastening one's eyes upon). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | "ンディング (binding, foot fastening), ぐうもく (fastening one's eyes upon), せっちゃく (fastening with glue), とじまり (closing up, fastening the doors). (various references) | |
Korean | 금 (Keying, locking). (various references) | |
Manx | kiangley (anchoring, anchoring building, article, article to trade, attach, band, bandage, bandaging, belay, bend, bind, bind down, binding, bond, bow knot, bundle, compress, condition, condition terms, connect, constipate, constrain, dress, dressing, envoy, envoy of poem, fasten down, influence, involvement, juncture, link, lock, lock in, locking, make fast, nexus, obligation, pin, pinion, relationship, retain, retention, secure, shackle, stipulation, tether, tie, tie down, tie on, tie up, tying, vinculum), chiooney (key). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | asteningfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | fixação (allocation, anchorage, definition, determination, furnishings, placement, retention, setting, settlement, settling), fecho do calçado, atache (fastener), agrafos. (various references) | |
Romanian | fixare (application, apposition, assignation, attachment, fixation, impress, nomination, retention), ataşare (attaching, attachment). (various references) | |
Russian | скрепление (brace, bracer), связывание (ligature), завязывание, прикреплять крепление. (various references) | |
Scottish | ceangal (a tie, binding, bond, tie). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veza (bond, bracing, bunch, clip, communication, connection, contact, copula, fastener, liaison, ligament, link, nexus, rapport, relation, stay, tie, touch, union), učvršćenje, kopča (buckle, clasp, clasp-pin, hasp, hook, snap). (various references) | |
Spanish | fijación (attachment, fixation, fixing), garfios (climbing irons, crampon), cierre del calzado, cierre (choke, clasp, closing, closure, cutoff, fastener, grapple, locking, shutdown, zip, zip fastener, zipper), atadura (attachment, binding, lashing, tether, tie, tying), anudamiento (knotting), abrochaduras. (various references) | |
Swedish | fästande (attachment, fixation). (various references) | |
Thai | สิ่งที่ใช้ยึ"ติ". (various references) | |
Turkish | tutulma (attack, being held, Crick, eclipse, go, immersion, kink, popularity), tutturma, bağlanma (affiliation, combination, down, involvement), bağlama (affiliation, attribution, connecting, coupling, fixture, folk instrument with three double strings, immobilization, lacing, lashing), bağ (alliance, bandage, beginnings, binder, bond, brace, connection, connexion, copula, copulation, cord, corelate, daughter, desmo-, fascia, fastener, header, knot, lace, league, ligament, ligature, link, linkage, linkup, nexus, noose, relation, relationship, string, tie, tie up, truss, vinculum, vine, vineyard, yoke). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скріплення (bracer, clip), зв'язування (binding, joining, ligature), замикання (closing, lock up, locking). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự trói chặt sự đóng chặt, sự c i chặt sự thắt chặt nút cái khoá, sự buộc (attachment), cái móc (catch, caught, clasp, crook, detent, fastener, guard-chain, hanger, hook, loop), cái hầm (fastener). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alligaturis, conpagem, conpaginis, conpago, conpagum, copulae, nexus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | AtenisaV de petroV eiV auton sun tw iwannh eipen bleyon eiV hmaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Intuens autem in eum Petrus cum Iohanne dixit respice in nos |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Petre with Joon bihelde on hym, and seide, Biholde thou in to vs. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And Peter fastened his eyes on him with Iohn and sayde: looke on vs. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And Peter fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And Peter, looking at him, with John, said, Keep your eyes on us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 3, Verse 4 |
| Albanian | Atëherë Pjetri, me Gjonin, duke i ngulur sytë mbi të, i tha: ''Na shiko''. |
| Cebuano | Ug si Pedro, kinuyogan ni Juan, mitutok ug miingon kaniya, "Tan-aw kanamo." |
| Chinese | 彼 得 約 翰 定 睛 看 他 ． 彼 得 說 、 看 我 們 。 |
| Croatian | Petar ga zajedno s Ivanom prodorno pogleda i reèe: "Pogledaj u nas!" |
| Danish | Da så Peter tillige med Johannes fast på ham og sagde: "Se på os!" |
| Dutch | En Petrus, sterk op hem ziende, met Johannes, zeide: Zie op ons. |
| Finnish | Niin Pietari ja Johannes katsoivat häneen kiinteästi, ja Pietari sanoi: "Katso meihin". |
| French | Pierre, de même que Jean, fixa les yeux sur lui, et dit: Regarde-nous. |
| German | Petrus aber sah ihn an mit Johannes und sprach: Sieh uns an! |
| Haitian Creole | Pyè ak Jan fikse je yo sou li, epi Pyè di li: Gade nou. |
| Hungarian | Péter pedig mikor szemeit reá vetette Jánossal egyben, monda: Nézz mi reánk! |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Maka mereka menatap dia, kemudian Petrus berkata, "Pandanglah kami!" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi Petrus dan Yahya menatap dia, katanya, "Pandanglah kami." |
| Maori | Na ka whakamau atu nga kanohi o Pita raua ko Hoani ki a ia, ka mea, Titiro mai ki a maua. |
| Norwegian | Men Peter så skarpt på ham sammen med Johannes og sa: Se på oss! |
| Rumanian | Petru, ca wi Ioan, s`a uitat yintq la el, wi a zis: ,,Uitq-te la noi!`` |
| Shuar | Tura Pítiur Juanjai apajas iisarmiayi. Tura Nú aishmannasha chicharuk "Iirsata" Tímiayi. |
| Swahili | Petro na Yohane walimkodolea macho, naye Petro akamwambia, "Tutazame!" |
| Swedish | Då fäste Petrus och Johannes sina ögon på honom, och Petrus sade: "Se på oss." |
| Uma | Petrus pai' Yohanes mponaa topungku toei. Na'uli' Petrus mpo'uli' -ki: "Penoto' -kai!" |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fastening": fastenings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fastening": refastening, unfastening. (additional references) | |
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"Fastening" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fatenning, festinniog. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fastening" (pronounced fa"suning or fa"sning) |
| 5 | -s u n i ng | christening, coarsening, glistening, hastening, jettisoning, lessening, listening, loosening, worsening. |
| 4 | -u n i ng | apportioning, abandoning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, happening, hardening, heartening, heightening, imagining, imprisoning, leavening, lengthening, lightening, likening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, poisoning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, widening. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-g-i-n-n-s-t" | |
-1 letter: antigens, feasting, gentians, infantes. | |
-2 letters: anteing, antigen, antings, easting, eatings, fainest, fannies, fasting, feasing, gannets, gentian, inanest, infante, infants, ingates, ingesta, nesting, seating, stanine, staning, teasing, tensing. | |
-3 letters: ageist, agents, anenst, anting, easing, eating, ensign, fagins, faints, fasten, fating, feigns, feints, feting, fiesta, finest, gainst, ganefs, gannet, giants, inanes, infant, infest, ingate, ingest. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-g-i-n-n-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fastenings. | |
+2 letters: festinating, manifesting, refastening, unfastening. | |
+3 letters: freestanding, interfacings, manifestoing, transfecting, transferring. | |
+4 letters: understaffing. | |
+5 letters: cotransferring, defenestrating, fragmentations, gemeinschaften, lignosulfonate, retransferring, retransforming, subinfeudating, understaffings. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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