different between fasten vs append

English

Etymology

From Middle English fastenen, from Old English fæstnian, from Proto-West Germanic *fastin?n (“to secure, fasten”). Equivalent to fast +? -en.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??s?n/, /?f??sn?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?fæs?n/, /?fæsn?/

Verb

fasten (third-person singular simple present fastens, present participle fastening, simple past and past participle fastened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To attach or connect in a secure manner.
   • May 31, 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Examiner No. 43

     The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.

2. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.

Derived terms

• fastening
• unfasten

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Stefan, nefast

German

Etymology 1

Middle High German vasten, from Old High German fast?n, from Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fastn?/, /?fast?n/
• Homophone: fassten
• Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten

Verb

fasten (weak, third-person singular present fastet, past tense fastete, past participle gefastet, auxiliary haben)

1. to fast

Conjugation

Related terms

• Fasten
• Fastenzeit
• Fastnacht

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa?st?n/
• Hyphenation: fas?ten; pre-1996: fa?sten

Verb

fasten

1. inflection of fasen:
   1. first/third-person plural preterite
   2. first/third-person plural subjunctive II

Further reading

• “fasten” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• fasta

Noun

fasten m or f

1. definite masculine singular of faste

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fast?n?.

Verb

fast?n

1. to fast

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle High German: vasten
  • Cimbrian: bastan
  • German: fasten
  • Luxembourgish: faaschten
  • Yiddish: ???????? (fastn)

English

Etymology

From Latin appendere (“to hang up, suspend on, pay out”), via Old French apendre, appendre, via Middle English appenden; from ad (“on, upon, against”) + pendere (“to suspend, hang”), equivalent to ad- +? pend. Compare with Old English appenden, apenden (“to belong”). See also pendant.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??p?nd/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Homophone: upend

Verb

append (third-person singular simple present appends, present participle appending, simple past and past participle appended)

1. (transitive) To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended

2. (transitive) To add, as an accessory to the principal thing; to annex

3. (computing) To write more data to the end of a pre-existing file, string, or other object.

Derived terms

• appendage
• prepend

Translations

Noun

append (plural appends)

1. (computing) An instance of writing more data to the end of an existing file.

References

• append in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• napped

French

Verb

append

1. third-person singular present indicative of appendre