Appertain vs Affix - What's the difference?
appertain | affix |
To belong to or be a part of, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate to.
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, passage= Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.
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* {{quote-book, year= 1886
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, chapter= On the Great Alkali Plain
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, 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.
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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 associated to the point in the Gauss Plane with coordinates .
To attach.
* Ray
To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to.
To fix or fasten figuratively; with on'' or ''upon .
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)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
* pertainAntonyms
* be irrelevantaffix
English
(wikipedia affix)Noun
(es)Antonyms
* nonaffixHyponyms
* (affixes)Coordinate terms
* cliticVerb
(es)- 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 affix''' a syllable to a word; to '''affix''' a seal to an instrument; to '''affix one's name to a writing
- eyes affixed upon the ground
- (Spenser)