different between deposit vs affix

English

Alternative forms

• deposite (17th-19th centuries)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin depositus, past participle of depono (“put down”). Doublet of depot.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??p?z?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??p?z?t/
• Rhymes: -?z?t

Noun

deposit (plural deposits)

1. Sediment or rock that is not native to its present location or is different from the surrounding material. Sometimes refers to ore or gems.
2. That which is placed anywhere, or in anyone's hands, for safekeeping; something entrusted to the care of another.
3. (banking) Money placed in an account.
4. Anything left behind on a surface.

5. (finance) A sum of money or other asset given as an initial payment, to show good faith, or to reserve something for purchase.

6. A sum of money given as a security for a borrowed item, which will be given back when the item is returned, e.g. a bottle deposit or can deposit
7. A place of deposit; a depository.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• refundable

Verb

deposit (third-person singular simple present deposits, present participle depositing, simple past and past participle deposited)

1. (transitive) To lay down; to place; to put.
   • 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience

     This fear is deposited in conscience.

2. To lay up or away for safekeeping; to put up; to store.

3. To entrust one's assets to the care of another. Sometimes done as collateral.
5. (transitive) To put money or funds into an account.

6. To lay aside; to rid oneself of.
   • 1654, Henry Hammond, Of Schism: or a Defence of the Church of England

     reform and deposit his error

Antonyms

• withdrawal

Translations

Anagrams

• dopiest, podites, posited, side pot, sopited, toe-dips, topside

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin affixus, perfect passive participle of affigere (from ad- + figere), equivalent to ad- +? fix.

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?æ.f?ks/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /?.?f?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

affix (plural affixes)

1. That which is affixed; an appendage.

   Synonyms: addition, supplement; see also Thesaurus:adjunct

2. (linguistic morphology) A bound morpheme added to the word’s stem's end.

   Synonyms: suffix, postfix

3. (linguistic morphology, broadly) A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; a prefix, suffix, etc.

   Antonym: nonaffix

   Hyponyms: prefix, suffix, infix, circumfix, suprafix

4. (mathematics) The complex number ${\displaystyle a+bi}$ associated with the point in the Gauss plane with coordinates ${\displaystyle (a,b)}$.
5. (decorative art) Any small feature, as a figure, a flower, or the like, added for ornament to a vessel or other utensil, to an architectural feature.

Coordinate terms

• (types of affixes): adfix, ambifix, circumfix, confix, disfix, duplifix, infix, interfix, libfix, postfix, prefix, prefixoid, simulfix, suffix, suffixoid, suprafix, transfix
• clitic

Translations

Verb

affix (third-person singular simple present affixes, present participle affixing, simple past and past participle affixed)

1. (transitive) To attach.

   Synonyms: join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join

   • Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food […]

2. (transitive) To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.

3. (transitive) To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, An Hymn of Heavenly Beauty

     Look thou no further, but affix thine eye/On that bright, shiny, round, still moving mass,/The house of blessed gods, which men call sky,/All sow'd with glist'ring stars more thick than grass...

Translations

Further reading

• affix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin affixum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.f?ks/
• Hyphenation: af?fix

Noun

affix n (plural affixen, diminutive affixje n)

1. Affix (linguistics and mathematics)

Swedish

Noun

affix n

1. an affix

Declension