fix
IPA: fˈɪks
noun
- A repair or corrective action.
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
- 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.
- (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
- A surname.
- Abbreviation of factor IX. (clotting factor IX) [Synonym of Christmas factor]
verb
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
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Examples of "fix" in Sentences
- Thanks for fixing the gauche.
- Thanks for fixing the graffiti.
- The Lord will fix the disunion.
- The engineer fixed the aileron.
- Fix the spelling of embarrassing.
- Thanks for the reply and the fix.
- The King was in an agonizing fix.
- The bobbin is fixed on the spindle.
- The fixed tissue is then dehydrated.
- Much of the repair work is as incompetent as the effort it is intended to fix.
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