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• fasten — fasten, fix, attach, affix mean to make something stay firmly in place or in an assigned place. All but fix (and that sometimes) imply a uniting or joining of one thing to another or of two things together. Fasten implies an attempt to keep a… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• fasten — O.E. fæstnian make fast, firm, also ratify, betroth, from P.Gmc. *fastinojanan (Cf. O.Fris. festnia to make firm, bind fast, O.S. fastnon, O.H.G. fastnion, O.N. fastna to pledge, betroth ), from *fastuz (see FAST (Cf. fast) (adj.)). Related …   Etymology dictionary

• fasten — /ˈfasən / (say fahsuhn) verb (t) 1. to make fast; fix firmly or securely in place or position; attach securely to something else. 2. to make secure, as an article of dress with buttons, clasps, etc., or a door with a lock, bolt, etc. 3. to attach …  

• fasten — verb (fastened; fastening) Etymology: Middle English fastnen, from Old English fæstnian to make fast; akin to Old High German festinōn to make fast, Old English fæst fast Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to attach especially by… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• fasten — [OE] Etymologically, fasten means ‘make fast’; it goes back ultimately to Germanic *fastuz, source of English fast. From this was derived a verb *fastinōjan, which passed into Old English as fæstnian. To begin with this seems only to have been… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• fasten — [OE] Etymologically, fasten means ‘make fast’; it goes back ultimately to Germanic *fastuz, source of English fast. From this was derived a verb *fastinōjan, which passed into Old English as fæstnian. To begin with this seems only to have been… …   Word origins

• Intermittierendes Fasten — Intermittierendes Fasten, engl. intermittent fasting (lat. intermittere = ‚unterbrechen / aussetzen‘), ist eine spezielle Form einer Diät, bei der ständig, in einem bestimmten Rhythmus, zwischen Zeiten der normalen Nahrungsaufnahme und des… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• -en verbs from adjectives — 1. There are about fifty verbs ending in en (e.g. cheapen, harden) which have been formed from adjectives. The table given below shows that this process of verb formation was at its most productive in Middle English and in the early modern period …   Modern English usage

• List of Spanish words of Germanic origin — This is an initial list of many Spanish words that come from Germanic languages. It is further divided into words that come from Visigothic, Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German …   Wikipedia

• List of Portuguese words of Germanic origin — This is a list of Portuguese words that come from Germanic languages. It is further divided into words that come from English, Frankish, Langobardic, Middle Dutch, Middle High German, Middle Low German, Old English, Old High German, Old Norse,… …   Wikipedia

• ἐξάψει — ἔξαψις fastening fem nom/voc/acc dual (attic epic) ἐξάψεϊ , ἔξαψις fastening fem dat sg (epic) ἔξαψις fastening fem dat sg (attic ionic) ἐξάπτω fasten from aor subj act 3rd sg (epic) ἐξάπτω fasten from fut ind mid 2nd sg ἐξάπτω fasten from fut… …   Greek morphological index (Ελληνική μορφολογικούς δείκτες)