fix
/ˈfɪks/
Dictionary
noun
- A repair or corrective action.
"That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's."
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
"It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!"
- A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A determination of location.
"We have a fix on your position."
- Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
verb
- To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
"A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board."
- To mend, to repair.
"That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it."
- To prepare (food or drink).
"She fixed dinner for the kids."
- To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion
"A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
"Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."
- (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
"He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work."
- To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
"Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen."
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
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