affix
verb /əˈfɪks/
/əˈfɪks/
[transitive, often passive, intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they affix | /əˈfɪks/ /əˈfɪks/ |
| he / she / it affixes | /əˈfɪksɪz/ /əˈfɪksɪz/ |
| past simple affixed | /əˈfɪkst/ /əˈfɪkst/ |
| past participle affixed | /əˈfɪkst/ /əˈfɪkst/ |
| -ing form affixing | /əˈfɪksɪŋ/ /əˈfɪksɪŋ/ |
- to stick or attach something to something else; to be able to be fixed to something
- be affixed (to something) The label should be firmly affixed to the package.
- affix to something The strings affix to the back of the bridge
Oxford Collocations DictionaryAffix is used with these nouns as the object:- signature
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French affixer or medieval Latin affixare, frequentative of Latin affigere, from ad- ‘to’ + figere ‘to fix’.