(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.
Holdfast
Definition:
(n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support.
(n.) A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, distribution of lead and cadmium varied within the individual producer (Fucus vesiculosus) in such a way that the holdfast exhibited the highest concentration followed by the apcial tip and the branches of the first dichotomy was the lowest.
(2) Thus, we propose that the attachment of the holdfast to the cell is a true adhesion process and that the stalk tip and base of the flagellum must have compositions distinctly different from that of the remainder of the caulobacter cell surface.
(3) Upon closer examination, they were distinguishable on the basis of protein band profiles on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, gross colony characteristics, or holdfast composition or by DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with flagellin and S-layer gene probes.
(4) The mutant could also attach to the discarded holdfast produced by a shedding mutant.
(5) Also, attachment to the cell is accomplished by bond formations that occur not only at the time of holdfast production.
(6) One class of mutants made a normal holdfast by all available criteria, yet the attachment to the cell was very weak, such that the holdfast was readily shed.
(7) Once attached the bacterium appears to undergo a complex life cycle which involves the development of a long filament divided into a number of segments within which holdfasts or spores are formed.
(8) Deletion and complementation analysis of the hfaAB locus revealed two genes in a single operon; both were required for holdfast attachment to the cell.
(9) The structure and distribution of papillae suggest that the ventral sucker likely functions as a holdfast organ and the oral sucker as a probing organ involved in feeding.
(10) The formation of the holdfast, cell walls and septa is followed.
(11) Within each mother cell two new holdfast segments developed.
(12) The paunch epithelium was densely colonized by bacteria, many of which possessed holdfast elements that secured them tightly to this tissue and to other bacterial cells.
(13) Caulobacters attach to surfaces in the environment via their holdfasts, attachment organelles located at the base of the flagellum in swarmer cells and later at the end of the cellular stalk in the stalked cells which develop from the swarmer cells.
(14) Taken together, the data support the interpretation that there is a specialized attachment site for the holdfast at the base of the flagellum which later becomes the end of the stalk, but not a specialized region of the holdfast for attachment to this site.
(15) The bacterium is attached to the epithelial cell by a special segment (holdfast) and causes specific changes in the epithelial cell at the site of attachment.
(16) This was unexpected, since holdfast deficiency is often a characteristic of pleiotropic mutants obtained when selecting for loss of other polar structures.
(17) This information suggests that the protein encoded by the hfaA locus may have a direct role in the attachment of the holdfast to the cell, whereas hfaB may be involved in the positive regulation of hfaC.
(18) A single prostheca extends from one pole of mature cells, and cells attach to various substrata by means of a holdfast located at the distal tip of the appendage.
(19) However, there was no subsequent division, or flagellum or holdfast synthesis.
(20) Alternately, in some filaments, newly formed but not yet released holdfasts were converted into endospores, which were released in the same manner as holdfasts, presumably to spread the bacterial colony to other members of the rodent population.