Definitions for fastener

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fastener fas·ten·er

Spelling: [fas-uh-ner, fah-suh-]

IPA: /ˈfæs ə nər, ˈfɑ sə-/

Fastener is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 354 anagrams from letters in fastener (aeefnrst).

Definitions for fastener

noun

1. any of various devices for fastening.
2. any of various devices, as a snap or hook and eye, for holding together two objects or parts sometimes required to be separate, as two edges or flaps of a piece of clothing.
3. a worker who fastens things together.

Origin of fastener

First recorded in 1620-30; fasten + -er¹

Examples for fastener

The use of each plate is determined by the type of fastener.

Adjust the orbit to them as in nature, and that requires no other fastener.

My hat had gone, and my collar had burst away from its fastener.

The document is actually a dark brown heavy folder with an Acco fastener.

He rushed forward and seized it in his grasp so violently that he knocked it down with its fastener.

In this case no improvement has been made in the English fastener.

It paused before the door, and in another instant a wary hand was at work upon the fastener.

The second was a fastener to keep shoe-strings from untying.

A fastener, to be a success, must make a noise in closing; it becomes the signal to the mind that the work is properly done.

This fastener possesses several advantages over one that is permanently attached to the heel.