FASTENED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fastened mean? 

• FASTENED (adjective)
  The adjective FASTENED has 3 senses:

1. firmly closed or secured

2. furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike

3. fastened with strings or cords

  Familiarity information: FASTENED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASTENED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Firmly closed or secured

Context example:

a fastened seatbelt

Similar:

pegged-down (fastened by pegs)

Antonym:

unfastened (not closed or secured)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike

Synonyms:

buttoned; fastened

Similar:

botonee; botonnee ((of a heraldic cross) having a cluster of three buttons or knobs at the end of each arm)

button-down (of a shirt; having the ends of the collar fastened down by buttons)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Fastened with strings or cords

Synonyms:

fastened; tied

Context example:

a neatly tied bundle

Similar:

knotted (tied with a knot)

 Context examples 

Still faithful to her hold, her body followed the circle of his whirl so that her feet left the floor, and she swung through the air fastened to his throat by her hands.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where the little opening for the ventilator is.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slipping off a turn, I lowered the mast back into the water and fastened the tackle a third of the way down from the butt.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was to this that was fastened the long rope by which he pulled at the sled.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The man was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

At length the chaise arrived, the trunks were fastened on, the parcels placed within, and it was pronounced to be ready.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He opened the outer door, and then as a dark figure slipped past him he closed and fastened it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But the raft was nearly done, and after the Tin Woodman had cut a few more logs and fastened them together with wooden pins, they were ready to start.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He took a long string from his pouch and fastened one end to an arrow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That’s Lord Harewood he has fastened on to now.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)