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Fastener vs Clinch - What's the difference?

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Fastener is a related term of clinch.


As nouns the difference between fastener and clinch

is that fastener is something or someone that fastens while clinch is any of several fastenings.

As a verb clinch is

to clasp; to interlock.

fastener

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • something or someone that fastens
  • mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers, bolts and the like
  • Derived terms

    * pop fastener * snap fastener * zip fastener

    Anagrams

    * * English agent nouns

    clinch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To clasp; to interlock.
  • To make certain; to finalize.
  • I already planned to buy the car, but the color was what really clinched it for me.
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  • To fasten securely or permanently.
  • To bend and hammer the point of (a nail) so it cannot be removed.
  • To embrace passionately.
  • To hold firmly; to clench.
  • * Dryden
  • Clinch the pointed spear.
  • To set closely together; to close tightly.
  • to clinch the teeth or the fist
    (Jonathan Swift)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Any of several fastenings.
  • The act or process of holding fast; that which serves to hold fast; a grip or grasp.
  • to get a good clinch of an antagonist, or of a weapon
    to secure anything by a clinch
  • (obsolete) A pun.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • (nautical) A hitch or bend by which a rope is made fast to the ring of an anchor, or the breeching of a ship's gun to the ringbolts.
  • A passionate embrace.
  • See also

    * (wikipedia "clinch") * clench * clincher * clinch nut