Affix

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package.
  • v. To impute; attribute: affix blame to him.
  • v. To place at the end; append: affix a postscript to a letter.
  • v. Grammar To add as an affix.
  • n. Something that is attached, joined, or added; an appendage or addition.
  • n. Linguistics A word element, such as a prefix or suffix, that can only occur attached to a base, stem, or root.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. That which is affixed; an appendage.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The complex number associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates .
  • v. To attach.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of
  • v. To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically.
  • v. To attach, unite, or connect with
  • v. To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon.
  • n. That which is affixed; an appendage; esp. one or more letters or syllables added at the end of a word; a suffix; a postfix.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • n. That which is joined, attached, or added; an addition or attachment.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. attach to
  • n. a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form
  • v. add to the very end
  • v. attach or become attached to a stem word
  • Antonym
    l    en    nonaffix   
    Verb Form
    affixed    affixes    affixing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unite    connect    attach    annex    subjoin    appendage    suffix    postfix    add    addition   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Brix    Dicks    Dix    Hicks    Knicks    Nix    Nyx    Sticks    Styx    bricks   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
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