Amarrar

amarrar

amarrar

v. hitch, tie up; lash; moor; (Central America) kidnap, abduct

= fasten, tether, strap, secure, tie (to).
Ex: The original is clamped around the left hand cylinder and a special stencil fastened around the other cylinder.
Ex: The book reached the limits of its potential as an information carrier long ago and libraries unfortunately allowed themselves to become tethered by those limitations.
Ex: Microfilm is said to have been invented during the Franco-Prussian War, to send reduced diagrams of troop positions by strapping these to the legs of carrier pigeons.
Ex: Many books were still large and solid, their blind-tooled covers secured with clasps or ties.
Ex: Chain indexing is closely tied to the structure (but not necessarily the terminology) of the classification scheme.
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* amarrar a = lash (up) to.

befestigen;vertäuen;pauken;festbinden;anbinden;zubinden