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# fasten

verb (fasten, fastens, fastened, fastening)

«fasten» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. To close, join or fix something so it stays shut or in place: fasten a seatbelt, a button, a gate. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#m1)
2. To attach one thing to another. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#m2)
3. To fix your eyes or attention on something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/#m3)

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

To fix or attach firmly. The prophets use it for fixing idols with nails and for setting a trusted man firmly in place like a peg.

**Interpretation.** The blue thread holds the golden plate on the high priest's mitre. The plate says "Holy to the LORD," and tradition sees the blue as a reminder of heaven and the commandments. Isaiah's "peg in a sure place" is read as a promise of a steady, honored servant.

### Examples

- And they tied unto it a thread of blue, to fasten it upon the mitre above; as the LORD commanded Moses. (Torah EXO.39.31, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fasten/#x1)
- They deck it with silver and with gold, they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. (Prophets JER.10.4, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fasten/#x2)
- And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of honour to his father's house. (Prophets ISA.22.23, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fasten/#x3)

### Note

The t is silent: FAH-sen (UK) / FASS-en (US). Regular verb. Opposite: unfasten. Noun: fastening or fastener.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «fasten» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fasten/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fasten» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/fasten.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «fasten» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/F/fasten/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«fasten» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/fasten.html) on Mova free.