fasten

v 1: cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the

door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" [syn: {fix}, {secure}]

[ant: {unfasten}]

2: become fixed or fastened; "This dress fastens in the back"

[ant: {unfasten}]

3: attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other"

4: make tight or tighter; "Tighten the wire" [syn: {tighten}]

flatten

To remove structural information, especially to filter

something with an implicit tree structure into a simple

sequence of leaves; also tends to imply mapping to

{flat ASCII}. "This code flattens an expression with

parentheses into an equivalent {canonical} form."

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