Affix

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  • transitive verb. To secure to something; attach.
  • transitive verb. To impute; attribute.
  • transitive verb. To place at the end; append.
  • transitive verb. To add as an affix.
  • noun. Something that is attached, joined, or added; an appendage or addition.
  • noun. A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that can only occur attached to a base, stem, or root.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In mathematics, the complex number x + iy is denoted by a single letter, z; the point P, (x, y), is then called the affix of the value z; the number z is also spoken of as the affix of the point P.
  • To fix; fasten, join, or attach; conjoin, add, or append; make an adjunct or part of: followed by to.
  • Synonyms Add, Affix, Annex, etc. (see add), suffix, superadd, tack on, fasten on, join.
  • noun. That which is joined, attached, or added; an addition or attachment.
  • noun. In philology, a syllable or letter, prefix or suffix, attached to a word or a verbal root or stem, as in good-ness, veri-fy, civil-ize, un-able, un-con-form-able.
  • noun. In 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, etc.: used especially with reference to ceramics and bronzes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.
  • transitive verb. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of
  • transitive verb. To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.
  • transitive verb. To attach, unite, or connect with
  • transitive verb. To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. That which is affixed; an appendage.
  • noun. A bound morpheme added to a word’s stem; formerly applied only to suffixes (also called postfixes), the term as now used comprises prefixes, suffixes, infixes, circumfixes, and suprafixes.
  • noun. The complex number associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates .
  • verb. To attach.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. attach to
  • noun. a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
  • verb. add to the very end
  • verb. attach or become attached to a stem word
  • Word Usage
    "Mr. Guest, who was conversing with Kuchar in the weeks prior to the filmmaker's death from prostate cancer, suggested that "camp" was too easy a label to affix to Kuchar's films, which total more than 200."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    en  l  nonaffix  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brix  Dicks  Dix  Hicks  Knicks  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clitic  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form