affixation
Homeowners have been forced to implement conservation measures such as affixing timers to electric water heaters.
People signed contracts by stamping their seals upon wax, hence the custom of affixing seals that has continued to this time.
In English, "I threw the dog the ball" shows by word order which object is direct and which indirect, but in an inflected language, endings affixed to the words for dog and ball indicate this.
The ge- prefix is almost always unstressed in Old English, unlike other prefixes affixed to nouns.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Connecting and combining
abut
additive
adjoin
affix something to something
agglomerate
connecting
converge
convergence
cor
couple something together
isthmic
jointed
junction
kludge
knit
unify
unintegrated
union
unseparated
wad

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Linguistics: morphology & parts of words

Examples of affixed

affixed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Currently, the rubber cylindrical feet are affixed to the legs.
Goggles were affixed to the feathers surrounding the eyes with contact cement.
When a voltage is applied to contacts affixed to the ends of a p-n junction, current flows.
These analyses would maintain that the imperative forms the base for affixed forms in the imperative\\ jussive paradigm.
The grammatical category of definiteness is realised by the articles, which, although they are not affixed to nouns, only occur in association with nouns.
Semantic idiosyncrasies are more characteristic of affixed words than of clitic groups.
Interestingly, the wax seals were already affixed when the supplication was presented for signature.
These two examples indicate that the scriveners wrote out the plaints that the litigation masters dictated, and affixed the official seal.
Vials were affixed near the trap entrance and when used in combination with carbon dioxide, they were affixed adjacent to the carbon dioxide release point.
Labels could be affixed to each sound, using graphic codes, colour, words, pictures or whatever else was felt to be meaningful.
The well-formedness of the affixed surface form depends on the degree of correspondence to its related base.
The reading and spelling scores are strongly correlated; particularly noticeable is the strong correlation between word reading and spelling stem words (.91) and affixed words (.88).
Whereas in the former case there is no form, in the latter case there is no affixed form.
Subjects recorded their co-operate/defect decisions, as well as their expectations, on forms affixed to clipboards.
Below the test section a steel channel section beam, oriented perpendicularly to the flow direction, was affixed to the bed of a milling machine.
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