(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
(v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors tested their own technique, using transplants or implants of corium, fascia, dura mater and polyester net, internally in the tendons, fastening them with an external cross suture.
(2) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
(3) Total radioactivity, including the volatile part of the solvents were registered by autoradiography of dried, evaporated tape-fastened sections.
(4) In order to more effectively separate the walls, a protector was applied consisting of a soft polyethylene tube, whose ends were fastened to the cervix uteri and remained there for 3-4 weeks.
(5) A penile problem that physicians are confronted with in the emergency room is entrapment of the foreskin by a zipper fastener.
(6) Mohamedou Ould Slahi: “smart, witty, garrulous, and curiously undamaged” Another team inside the plane dragged me and fastened me on a small and straight seat.
(7) It is made light-impermeable through the use of nylon hook-and-loop fasteners.
(8) Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, I just didn’t understand why trade was so prominent this race David Lawrence, vice-president, AlphaUSA “Given that the economy is kind of coming back right now, something that is so key to the economy [as trade], I just didn’t understand why it was so prominent this race, and not some other issue,” said David Lawrence, vice-president of AlphaUSA, a fastener manufacturer based in suburban Detroit.
(9) Sheets of oil paper fastened vertically to two wires at a height of 60 cm above the ground at a distance of 20 cm one from another (barriers) and sheets in the form of "flags" (Dergachova and others, 1973) were used simultaneously.
(10) One group was exposed to the regular hospital program and the other group had, in addition: a mock-up demonstration for the mothers on the correct method of fastening the baby into the car seat and the car seat into the automobile seat; written handouts of how to use a car seat with an infant; a physician's order for the mock-up demonstration; and a physician's order to be discharged in a car seat.
(11) Erection, increase in circumference as well as rigidity, can be measured with a simple device consisting of a calibrated felt band with a sliding collar fastened to 1 end.
(12) A supporting harness is attached to the mask by use of three flat straps connected by Dot fasteners.
(13) Prevention includes feeding with human milk in prematures with slow increase of partial and total volumes, early initial fastening in cases of asphyxia and careful and close surveillance of high-risk newborns.
(14) Based on its membrane topology, it has been suggested that MotB might be a linker that fastens the torque-generating machinery to the cell wall.
(15) Spontaneous "overnight" deflation of inflatable prostheses is rather uncommon, but we have had a 5.7% incidence of it in a 24-month period in which we used implants with a suturable tab and fastened them to the subjacent fascia.
(16) In case of a transverse position of the fetal head, a special fastener on the forceps makes it possible to use an excentric handle on the traction hook of the Kielland forceps and thus render possible rotation of the fetal head from the transverse position.
(17) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
(18) Over a 0.009 inch flexible tip steel wire a diamond-coated brass burr fastened to a flexible drive shaft that rotates and tracks was advanced.
(19) Granulation tissue grows through the prosthesis which is fastened well to the connective-tissue cuff forming around it.
(20) The extension of the tracheostoma is achieved by means of an parallel incision which widens the trachea with the acid of 2 tough threads on each side, which are fastened to the clavicle.
Gib
Definition:
(n.) A male cat; a tomcat.
(v. i.) To act like a cat.
(n.) A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; -- usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.
(v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.
(v. i.) To balk. See Jib, v. i.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fund is a new development for Gib because it raises private money up front for investment in a particular industry instead of investing project by project.
(2) Chris Huhne , the energy and climate change secretary, appears to concede the Treasury's concern that the liabilities taken on by the GIB would be added to the government's budget book.
(3) To analyse the importance of GIB we studied, retrospectively, the causes of hospitalization in 301 patients, all on HD in the same Unit in January 1990.
(4) Today's report also appeared to put pressure on Osborne as he works towards this autumn's comprehensive spending review (CSR), by warning that the task of setting up a GIB needs to begin immediately.
(5) Kingsbury is particularly proud of the large investments made this year in windfarms such as the £241m Gib put into Westermost Rough off the coast of Yorkshire and the £220m for a 10% stake in Gwynt y Mor, the biggest offshore field under construction in Europe.
(6) Extracts of B. malayi adult male worms, female worms, and microfilariae contained Gib 13 monoclonal antibody-reactive antigens of Mr 25-30,000, 57-90,000, and approximately equal to 200,000.
(7) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
(8) A green investment bank (GIB) is being pushed for to turn the £50-80bn of traditional project capital available into the much higher amounts funding experts say will be needed to pay for the low-carbon technologies the UK is expected to need.
(9) Sue Charman, the "one planet finance leader" at WWF-UK, said the GIB had an essential role to play in shifting the UK to a low carbon economy, but giving it no immediate borrowing powers was a critical mistake.
(10) Vince Cable, the business secretary, has officially marked the launch of the new green investment bank ( GIB ) by announcing funding of a new waste-to-energy plant and an energy saving scheme.
(11) NSAID appear to be a risk factor for GIB from erosive Gastritis and or Duodenitis.
(12) I am confident that the sale process will provide GIB with good new owners who will support GIB’s continued growth and leadership role in the global green economy long into the future,” he said.
(13) Energy efficiency is a no-brainer, as is letting the GIB off the Treasury leash.
(14) The Gib 13 monoclonal antibody was raised against eggs of Onchocerca gibsoni and subsequently found to react with a phosphorylcholine epitope designated as the T15 idiotype.
(15) Salmond, who has played a prominent role in building up overseas investments in green energy, pointed out instead that £103m of the GIB's start up capital of £3bn came from the money owed to Scotland by the Treasury, which has been sitting on Scotland's share of the fossil fuel levy for some years.
(16) The evidence now indicates that only cells in a certain intermitotic state, called GIb, can be thus detached, and that when such cells are not locally available the expanding mitosis is forced into the vertical axis.
(17) Detection of circulating antigen in amicrofilaremic subjects with acute symptoms of lymphatic filariasis, and 53% of asymptomatic amicrofilaremic subjects, but not in nonendemic controls, suggests that the Gib 13 IRMA will also be of value in the diagnosis of occult filariasis.
(18) Lib Dem minister and energy secretary, Chris Huhne, wants the GIB to operate as a fully fledged bank that is able to issue bonds and underwrite loans, rather than just a fund, which would be more limited and unable to release the required capital.
(19) Cable will be in front of the environmental audit committee of MPs to discuss the GIB tomorrow.
(20) The report said that the forthcoming spending review on 20 October is a good time to deliver a GIB which is backed by between £4-6bn of capital until 2015.