Fasten vs Tiedown - What's the difference?
fasten | tiedown |
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
A rope or line used to secure a load to a vehicle.
As nouns the difference between fasten and tiedown
is that fasten is while tiedown is a rope or line used to secure a load to a vehicle.fasten
English
Verb
(en verb)- The sailor fastened the boat to the dock with a half-hitch.
- Fasten your seatbelts!
- Can you fasten these boards together with some nails?
- The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them.
- to fasten a blow
- if I can fasten but one cup upon him