What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Fasten vs Cement - What's the difference?

fasten | cement | Synonyms |

Fasten is a synonym of cement.


As nouns the difference between fasten and cement

is that fasten is while cement is (label) a powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.

As a verb cement is

to affix with cement.

fasten

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To attach or connect in a secure manner.
    • The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
    Fasten your seatbelts!
    Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
  • To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
    • to fasten a blow
  • * Shakespeare
    • if I can fasten but one cup upon him

    Related terms

    * bedfast * breastfast * colorfast * cragfast * fast * fastening * handfast * headfast * holdfast * makefast * sitfast * shamefast * soothfast * steadfast

    Anagrams

    * * English ergative verbs ----

    cement

    English

    (wikipedia cement)

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

  • (label) A powdered substance that develops strong adhesive properties when mixed with water.
  • * , chapter=22
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=In the autumn there was a row at some cement works about the unskilled labour men. A union had just been started for them and all but a few joined. One of these blacklegs was laid for by a picket and knocked out of time.}}
  • (uncountable) The paste-like substance resulting from mixing such a powder with water.
  • (label) Any material with strong adhesive properties.
  • (label) Bond of union; that which unites firmly, as persons in friendship or in society.
  • (label) The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; cementum.

    • Derived terms

    * Keene's cement * masonry cement * Portland cement

    See also

    * concrete

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To affix with cement.
  • To overlay or coat with cement.
    • to cement a cellar bottom
  • (figurative) To unite firmly or closely.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (figuratively) To make permanent.
  • * "But friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit;" David Hume, http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=704&chapter=137514&layout=html&Itemid=27