Insulated vs Fasten - What's the difference?
insulated | fasten |
Protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.
Placed or set apart.
* De Quincey
(of an electrically conducting material) Isolated or separated from other conducting materials, or sources of electricity.
(astronomy, dated) Situated at so great a distance as to be beyond the effect of gravitation; said of stars supposed to be so far apart that the effect of their mutual attraction is undetectable.
(insulate)
To attach or connect in a secure manner.
* Jonathan Swift
To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to land.
* Shakespeare
As an adjective insulated
is protected from heat, cold, noise etc, by being surrounded with an insulating material.As a verb insulated
is (insulate).As a noun fasten is
.insulated
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- an insulated house or column
- the special and insulated situation of the Jews
- Early insulated wires were covered in silk rather than plastic.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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
