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# fastening

«fastening» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thing used to close or join something, such as a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a fastening, fastenings); also the -ing form of fasten

### meaning for a pupil

1) A thing used to close or join something, such as a button, zip, buckle, clip or Velcro. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#m1)

2) The act of fixing or closing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology and textiles lessons, pupils choose fastenings for bags and clothes (buttons, poppers, Velcro). In everyday life, coats and shoes have different fastenings.

### examples

- This coat has a zip fastening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x1)
- Velcro is an easy fastening for small children. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x2)
- The bag's fastening broke. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x3)
- Choose a fastening for your pencil case. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x4)
- She was fastening her sandals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x5)
- Buttons and poppers are common fastenings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x6)
- So, fastening the sword to his belt, he carried it to the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fastening/#x7)

### note

Silent t: FAHS-ning. Countable noun. Similar: fastener (US often uses «fastener»). In DT, compare fastenings by how strong, easy and cheap they are.

### Trees and pragmatics

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