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Copper-fastened
Copper-fastened Cop"per-fas`tened, a.
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as,
a copper-fastened ship.
FastedFast Fast, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fasting.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part; to go hungry.
Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.
2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.
Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting. Fastener
Fastener Fas"ten*er, n.
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
Fastening
Fastening Fas"ten*ing, n.
Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt,
bar, buckle, etc.
FasterFast Fast, a. [Compar. Faster; superl. Fastest.] [OE.,
firm, strong, not loose, AS. f?st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast,
OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and
perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of
keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use. Cf.
Fast, adv., Fast, v., Avast.]
1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose,
unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the
door.
There is an order that keeps things fast. --Burke.
2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art;
impregnable; strong.
Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
--Spenser.
3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or
alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by
washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.]
Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their
smells. --Bacon.
6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
All this while in a most fast sleep. --Shak.
7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast
horse.
8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint;
reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a
fast liver. --Thackeray.
Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant,
esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play
fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy
or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another.
``Play fast and loose with faith.' --Shak.
Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by
side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another
shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re["e]ngage
the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be
stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to
the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and
vice versa.
Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be
immovable.
To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as
a vessel, a rope, or a door. Faster
Faster Fast"er, n.
One who abstains from food.
FastestFast Fast, a. [Compar. Faster; superl. Fastest.] [OE.,
firm, strong, not loose, AS. f?st; akin to OS. fast, D. vast,
OHG. fasti, festi, G. fest, Icel. fastr, Sw. & Dan. fast, and
perh. to E. fetter. The sense swift comes from the idea of
keeping close to what is pursued; a Scandinavian use. Cf.
Fast, adv., Fast, v., Avast.]
1. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose,
unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the
door.
There is an order that keeps things fast. --Burke.
2. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art;
impregnable; strong.
Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places.
--Spenser.
3. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or
alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
4. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by
washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
5. Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.]
Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their
smells. --Bacon.
6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
All this while in a most fast sleep. --Shak.
7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast
horse.
8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint;
reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a
fast liver. --Thackeray.
Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant,
esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play
fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy
or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another.
``Play fast and loose with faith.' --Shak.
Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by
side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another
shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and re["e]ngage
the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be
stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to
the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and
vice versa.
Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be
immovable.
To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as
a vessel, a rope, or a door. HandfastedHandfast Hand"fast`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Handfasted; p. pr.
& vb. n. Handfasting.]
To pledge; to bind; to betroth by joining hands, in order to
cohabitation, before the celebration of marriage. [Obs.] Unfasten
Unfasten Un*fas"ten, v. t. [1st pref. un- + fasten.]
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
Meaning of Faste from wikipedia
- Rolf A.
Faste (1943–2003) was an
American designer who made
major contributions to the
fields of human-centered
design and
design education. He is best...
- Technologies. 10 (1): 53–79. doi:10.1016/S0959-8022(99)00009-0.
Faste, Trygve;
Faste,
Haakon (2012-08-15). "Demystifying "design research":
design is...
- University,
extending through many
others such as
Robert McKim and
Rolfe Faste, who
taught "design
thinking as a
method of
creative action", and continuing...
- into the
Limfjord where he
pillaged in Vendsyssel. Fróði's
jarls Vott and
Faste attacked Óttarr in the fjord. The
battle was even and many men fell, but...
-
swarmed al aboute, And
throughout ****
swarmed all about, And
comen a****n as
faste as they may gon, And came
again as fast as they
could go, And in his ers...
-
Chabanne (dir.),
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1805-1873:
portraits de cour,
entre faste et élégance, Compiègne/Paris, RMN-Grand Palais, 2016,
Catalogue of the exhibitions...
- plus d'attente du public. Ce sera bientôt la fin de
cette période très
faste des années 70 où l'acteur se
permettait de
produire des
films risqués ou...
-
spelling of censer] on the haliday, /
Sensynge the
wyves of the
parisshe faste; / And many a
lovely look on hem he caste" (lines 3340–3342). Botafumeiro...
- Baden, Swabia,
Switzerland and
Slovenian regions, she was
often called Frau
Faste (the lady of the
Ember days) or
Pehta or 'Kvaternica', in Slovene. Elsewhere...
- in
herte to se How aungelus, when he ys wroth, From hym
faste flen and goth, And
fendes faste to hym renneth, And wyþ
fuyre of ****e hys
herte breneth...
