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affix1 verbaffix2 noun affixaf‧fix1 /əˈfɪks/ verb [transitive]  affix1Origin: 1500-1600 Medieval Latin affixare, from Latin affigere, from ad- ‘to’ + figere ‘to fasten’ VERB TABLEaffix |
Present | I, you, we, they | affix | | he, she, it | affixes | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | affixed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have affixed | | he, she, it | has affixed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had affixed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will affix | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have affixed |
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Present | I | am affixing | | he, she, it | is affixing | | you, we, they | are affixing | Past | I, he, she, it | was affixing | | you, we, they | were affixing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been affixing | | he, she, it | has been affixing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been affixing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be affixing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been affixing |
- Arc lights affixed to a low equipment building throw harsh shadows across her face.
- Have we become the Huxleyan mob irretrievably affixed to the tube and addicted to its terror and its trivia?
- He also affixed them to mirrors, which gave a different dimension to his work.
- Maskelyne argued, then acceded that they were by all appearances in perfect order, and affixed his signature.
- The names of 934 journalists, dating back to 1812, are printed on tinted-glass panels affixed to a spiral steel frame.
- The report listed numerous threats to the general fund but did not affix dollar amounts to possible losses.
- The rustic studio door is marked with a pin affixing a card.
- There he will create a towering bronze armature to which various body parts, heroic in size, will be affixed.
formal to fasten or stick something to something elseaffix something to something A label must be affixed to all parcels.GRAMMAR Affix is often passive.affix1 verbaffix2 noun affixaf‧fix2 /ˈæfɪks/ noun [countable]  - At least two problems exist for using affix stripping as a morphological technique.
- Each time an affix is removed the remaining stem must be checked to determine whether it is a valid word.
- In addition to whole words, the closed class also contains affixes.
- Instead, there would be a set of lexical rules indicating which affix had to be added to produce each inflected form.
- Separate drills need to be set up for each noun class to learn its associated affixes.
- Some method is then used to derive the syntactic representation for the derivative form from combining the root form and the affix.
- The selection of a particular planning frame commits the speaker to using certain function words and affixes and not others.
- These often show a dissociation between the stem of a lexical item and its affix.
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