fasten

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1. fasten - Adjective

2. fasten - Verb

Meaning

To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something, or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.

To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.

To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

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Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas. Georges Braque

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow. Julia Cameron

Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe. George Henry Lewes

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. Clifford Geertz

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real. Ani DiFranco

There is no need to fasten a bell to a fool, he is sure to tell his own tale. Danish Proverb

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