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Fasten vs Padlock - What's the difference?

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Fasten is a related term of padlock.


As nouns the difference between fasten and padlock

is that fasten is while padlock is a detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle.

As a verb padlock is

to lock using a padlock.

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 ----

    padlock

    English

    (wikipedia padlock)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A detachable lock that can be used to secure something by means of a sliding or hinged shackle

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lock using a padlock.
  • * 1989 , ” (song):
    • Janitors padlock the gates.

    See also

    * combination lock