different between impose vs affix

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French imposer (“to lay on, impose”), taking the place of Latin imponere (“to lay on, impose”), from in (“on, upon”) + ponere (“to put, place”).

Pronunciation

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

Verb

impose (third-person singular simple present imposes, present participle imposing, simple past and past participle imposed)

1. (transitive) To establish or apply by authority.

   Congress imposed new tariffs.

   • 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[2]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

     Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.

2. (intransitive) to be an inconvenience (on or upon)

   I don't wish to impose upon you.

3. to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way

   Social relations impose courtesy
4. To practice a trick or deception (on or upon).
5. To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
6. To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.

Derived terms

• imposure
• superimpose

Related terms

• imposition

Translations

Further reading

• impose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• impose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• impose at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mopies, pomeis

French

Verb

impose

1. first-person singular present indicative of imposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of imposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of imposer
5. second-person singular imperative of imposer

Italian

Verb

impose

1. third-person singular past historic of imporre

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