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Fasten vs Expedite - What's the difference?

fasten | expedite |

As verbs the difference between fasten and expedite

is that fasten is to attach or connect in a secure manner while expedite is to accelerate the progress of.

As an adjective expedite is

free of impediment; unimpeded.

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 ----

    expedite

    English

    Verb

    (expedit)
  • To accelerate the progress of.
    • He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
  • To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.

    • Antonyms

    * impede * slow down

    Related terms

    * expede (obsolete) * expedience * expediency * expedient * expedition

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Free of impediment; unimpeded.
  • * Hooker
    • to make the way plain and expedite
  • Expeditious; quick; prompt.
  • * Tillotson
    • nimble and expedite in its operation
  • * John Locke
    • Speech is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts.
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