affixed; affixing; affixes
1
: to attach physically
affix a stamp to a letter
3
: impress
affixed my seal
1
grammar
: one or more sounds or letters occurring as a bound form attached to the beginning or end of a word, base, or phrase or inserted within a word or base and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form
The affix in the word "attendance" is "-ance."
2
Synonyms
Examples of affix in a Sentence
Verb
affix a first-class stamp to the envelope
Recent Examples on the Web
Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Brody hand-tore pieces of colorful tissue paper into ovoid forms, then affixed them to raw canvas.
—Caitie Kelly Lindsey Tramuta Lauren Cochrane Angela Koh Laura Bannister Gisela Williams, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
In an effort to catch up, manufacturers are increasingly affixing the Declare label–the nutrition label for products–to a wide range of products.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Banners and signs must be hand held and may not obstruct the view of other guests or Footprint Center advertising signage or be temporarily or permanently affixed to the building structure.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
Her outfit—look 10 from the show—was affixed with all the bells and whistles: a lightweight, layered peplum that extended into a train, white embellishments on the bodice, and 3D sprouts emerging from the peplum and train.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024
The company’s engineers scrambled to write and transmit a software patch that would direct the spacecraft to instead use a NASA instrument of lasers and telescopes, called the Navigation Doppler lidar (NDL), affixed to the outside of Odysseus to guide the landing.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Banners and signs must be hand-held and may not obstruct the view of other guests, Footprint Center advertising signage or be temporarily or permanently affixed to the building structure.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
In accordance with the rules of the protectorate, Mohammed was obliged to affix his signature on them.
—Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
To better understand the ocean floor, enterprising marine scientists decided to affix tags equipped with cameras to tiger sharks that patrol the shallow tropical seas of the Bahamas.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
Add a liberal amount of hot glue to the back of the hands and affix in place around a small chalkboard circle.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
Granted, that’s a lot of baggage to affix to a movie that spends a little less than 90 minutes showcasing Sweeney – who at this point seems to trend daily on social media – and unnerving opening-weekend audiences, in roughly that order.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Other combatants travel with mezuzahs, small boxes containing biblical Scriptures meant to be hung outside Jewish residences, to affix to Palestinian homes.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
At the end of the exhibition you are invited to write a wish on a white card and affix it to a potted olive tree.
—Emily Labarge, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
But the pièce de résistance is the massive set of cascading fiberglass wings sprouting lacy, geometric petals, which affix to the sleeves of the dress.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
The insulator on one chip affixes to the other when they are pressed together.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
Verb
To film the scene, the crew would affix the back half of an airplane to a truck, rig cranes with lighting to simulate phosphorus explosions, put up enormous fans to create whipping propeller winds.
—Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
Brody hand-tore pieces of colorful tissue paper into ovoid forms, then affixed them to raw canvas.
—Caitie Kelly Lindsey Tramuta Lauren Cochrane Angela Koh Laura Bannister Gisela Williams, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
In an effort to catch up, manufacturers are increasingly affixing the Declare label–the nutrition label for products–to a wide range of products.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
Banners and signs must be hand held and may not obstruct the view of other guests or Footprint Center advertising signage or be temporarily or permanently affixed to the building structure.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 15 Mar. 2024
Her outfit—look 10 from the show—was affixed with all the bells and whistles: a lightweight, layered peplum that extended into a train, white embellishments on the bodice, and 3D sprouts emerging from the peplum and train.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 11 Mar. 2024
The company’s engineers scrambled to write and transmit a software patch that would direct the spacecraft to instead use a NASA instrument of lasers and telescopes, called the Navigation Doppler lidar (NDL), affixed to the outside of Odysseus to guide the landing.
—Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2024
Banners and signs must be hand-held and may not obstruct the view of other guests, Footprint Center advertising signage or be temporarily or permanently affixed to the building structure.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2024
In accordance with the rules of the protectorate, Mohammed was obliged to affix his signature on them.
—Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
Noun
OpenAI affixes five small colored boxes in the bottom-right corner of images made with its Dall-E image generators.
—Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
To better understand the ocean floor, enterprising marine scientists decided to affix tags equipped with cameras to tiger sharks that patrol the shallow tropical seas of the Bahamas.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 Mar. 2024
Add a liberal amount of hot glue to the back of the hands and affix in place around a small chalkboard circle.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
Granted, that’s a lot of baggage to affix to a movie that spends a little less than 90 minutes showcasing Sweeney – who at this point seems to trend daily on social media – and unnerving opening-weekend audiences, in roughly that order.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
Other combatants travel with mezuzahs, small boxes containing biblical Scriptures meant to be hung outside Jewish residences, to affix to Palestinian homes.
—Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
At the end of the exhibition you are invited to write a wish on a white card and affix it to a potted olive tree.
—Emily Labarge, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
But the pièce de résistance is the massive set of cascading fiberglass wings sprouting lacy, geometric petals, which affix to the sleeves of the dress.
—Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 24 Feb. 2024
The insulator on one chip affixes to the other when they are pressed together.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Feb. 2024
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affix
2 of 2 noun
af·fix
ˈaf-ˌiks 
: a letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or end of a word that serves to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form
Legal Definition
affix
transitive verb
af·fix
ə-ˈfiks, a-
1
: to attach physically
2
: to attach or add in any way
affix a signature to a document
3
: to make by or as if by pressure
affix my seal
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