Recent Examples on the WebRobots are often covered in a material made to resemble flesh, such as silicone, which is attached via an adhesive or fastening — but this can lead to the skin falling off or breaking, says Wang.—Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 28 June 2024 For active pursuits like swimming or boating, look for styles with good support and secure fastenings.—Andrea Navarro, Glamour, 21 June 2024 The idea was to get rid of the massive tooling equipment used inside the Everett plant to assemble the large 777 panels into fuselage sections and to automate the drilling and fastening that stitched the panels together.—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Apr. 2024 Just One More Thing • Coats of the week: Dr. Vanessa Holmes’s rich cognac-brown coat featuring very furry, very deep cuffs, and Elsbeth’s belted, slightly A-line sky-blue-and-cream tweed longline jacket with brass fastenings.—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for fastening
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Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of fastening was
before the 12th century
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