FASTENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fastener mean? 

• FASTENER (noun)
  The noun FASTENER has 2 senses:

1. a person who fastens or makes fast

2. restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

  Familiarity information: FASTENER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FASTENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who fastens or makes fast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he found the door fastened and wondered who the fastener was

Hypernyms ("fastener" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

fasten (cause to be firmly attached)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

fastener; fastening; fixing; holdfast

Hypernyms ("fastener" is a kind of...):

constraint; restraint (a device that retards something's motion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fastener"):

knot (any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object)

toggle bolt (a fastener consisting of a threaded bolt and a hinged spring-loaded toggle; used to fasten objects to hollow walls)

toggle (a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable))

press stud; snap; snap fastener (a fastener used on clothing; fastens with a snapping sound)

slide fastener; zip; zip fastener; zipper (a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab)

seal; sealing wax (fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters)

seal (fastener that provides a tight and perfect closure)

screw (a fastener with a tapered threaded shank and a slotted head)

pin (a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things)

paper fastener (a fastener for holding a sheet of paper in place)

nut and bolt (a fastener made by screwing a nut onto a threaded bolt)

nail (a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener)

locker (a fastener that locks or closes)

lock (a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed)

link; linkup; tie; tie-in (a fastener that serves to join or connect)

lashing (rope that is used for fastening something to something else)

bellyband (a strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon)

hook and eye (a kind of fastener used on clothing)

fillet; stopping (fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members)

dowel; dowel pin; joggle (a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together)

cringle; eyelet; grommet; grummet; loop (fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines)

cottar; cotter (fastener consisting of a wedge or pin inserted through a slot to hold two other pieces together)

corrugated fastener; wiggle nail (a small strip of corrugated steel with sharp points on one side; hammered across wood joints in rough carpentry)

clothes peg; clothes pin; clothespin (wood or plastic fastener; for holding clothes on a clothesline)

clip (any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together)

clinch (the flattened part of a nail or bolt or rivet)

cleat (a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured)

clasp (a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together)

catch (a fastener that fastens or locks a door or window)

carabiner; karabiner; snap ring (an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes)

button (a round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes)

buckle (fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong)

Derivation:

fasten (cause to be firmly attached)

fasten (become fixed or fastened)

 Context examples 

A threaded fastener designed to engage a bolt.

(Nut Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

A screw designed to thread into a nut to form a fastener.

(Bolt Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open.

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

In this there was surely something mysterious, and she indulged in the flattering suggestion for half a minute, till the possibility of the door's having been at first unlocked, and of being herself its fastener, darted into her head, and cost her another blush.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)