verb / noun
affix
uh-FIKS/əˈfɪks/
To fasten something onto a base or surface.
The man affixes a coat hook to the wooden board with screws.
Etymology
The pieces combine ‘to’ with ‘fasten,’ giving the image of securing one thing to another. The modern verb preserves this concrete attachment sense.
In context
many English crests are quite unsuitable to place on a helmet in fact impossible to affix by the aid of a wreath to a helmet
More examples
- Please affix your signature beneath the declaration.
- The workers affixed warning signs to the gate.
- The suffix in kindness is an affix added to kind.
Forms
affix · affixes · affixed · affixing