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Appertain vs Affix - What's the difference?

appertain | affix |

As a verb appertain

is to belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.

As a noun affix is

affix.

appertain

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
  • * {{quote-book, year= 1551
  • , year_published= 1888 , author= , by= , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society. , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=JmpXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA217 , original= , chapter= , section= Part 1 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Clarendon Press , location= Oxford , editor= , volume= 1 , page= 217 , passage= Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year= 1886
  • , year_published= 1902 , author= (Arthur Conan Doyle) , by= , title= (A Study in Scarlet) , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=CUnIjAWSCmIC&pg=PA115 , original= , chapter= On the Great Alkali Plain , section= The Country of the Saints , isbn= , edition= , publisher= D. Appleton and Company , location= New York , editor= , volume= , page= 115 , passage= In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth—above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence—complete and heart-subduing silence. }}

    Usage notes

    * Appertain' is followed by '''to''' (or formerly by '''unto''', as in ''The King James Version of The Bible'' and in the plays of Shakespeare, although ' to is used in these works as well).

    Synonyms

    * pertain

    Antonyms

    * be irrelevant

    affix

    English

    (wikipedia affix)

    Noun

    (es)
  • That which is affixed; an appendage.
  • (linguistic morphology) 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.
  • (mathematics) The complex number a+bi associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates (a,b).
  • Antonyms

    * nonaffix

    Hyponyms

    * (affixes)

    Coordinate terms

    * clitic

    Verb

    (es)
  • To attach.
  • * Ray
  • Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food
    to affix''' a stigma to a person; to '''affix ridicule or blame to somebody
  • To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
  • to affix''' a syllable to a word; to '''affix''' a seal to an instrument; to '''affix one's name to a writing
  • To fix or fasten figuratively; with on'' or ''upon .
  • eyes affixed upon the ground
    (Spenser)