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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#m1)

2) To attach one thing to another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#m2)

3) To fix your eyes or attention on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x1)
- I can't fasten this button. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x2)
- Fasten the gate so the dog can't get out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x3)
- He fastened the poster to the wall with tape. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x4)
- Make sure your helmet is fastened. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x5)
- Her eyes fastened on the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x6)
- Can you help me fasten my shoes? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x7)
- You can sit on my back, and fasten yourself on with your sash. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/271-airports-and-planes/8/)
- [Keeping your seat belt fastened whenever you are seated protects you if the plane hits sudden bumps.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/22-why-planes-fly/13/)
- [And they tied unto it a thread of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as the LORD commanded Moses.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1214/)
- [And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.891/)
- [They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.300/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fasten» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.