fix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭks
ipa: /ˈfɪks/
rhymes: -ɪks
Forms: form: fixes
form: fixing
form: fixt
form: fixt
form: fixed
form: fixed
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form: glossary
form: fix
form: fix
form: fixed
form: fix
form: fixest
form: fixed
form: fixedst
form: fixes
form: fixeth
form: fixed
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form: fixed
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form: fixed
form: fix
form: -
form: fixing
form: fixed
form: fixe
Etymology: From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.
Senses: glosses: To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
examples: text: He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
text: She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 111:
glosses: To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
examples: text: A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
text: A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
text: The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
glosses: To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
examples: text: She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
glosses: To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
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.
examples: text: The Democratic Party woke to shambles; many looked around to fix blame. A Hunt aide decided not enough Blacks had come out to vote.
ref: 1985 February 9, Mab Segrest, “Gaybaiting”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 29, page 9:
glosses: To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
examples: text: That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
text: You can't fix stupid.
glosses: To mend, to repair.
examples: text: She fixed dinner for the kids.
text: She fixed Peter a slice of black bread and jam by cutting the hard crust petalwise around the edge, so the child could tear off convenient pieces.
ref: 1945, Marianne Steiff Finton Meisel, Years Before the Flood, page 14:
text: I fixed us drinks—orange juice with some vodka I'd gotten on sale—and washed a few dishes to get my mind off Jess and the fact of his not texting back.
ref: 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: To prepare (food or drink).
examples: text: A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
glosses: To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
examples: text: The function f#58;#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#92;to#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#59;f(x)#58;#61;4x-3 fixes the point 1#92;in#92;mathbb#123;R#125;, since f(1)#61;4(1)-3#61;1.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
semantics
glosses: To map (a point or subset) to itself.
examples: text: He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
glosses: To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
glosses: To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
examples: text: Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
text: it is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual
ref: 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography:
topics: biology
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To convert into a stable or available form.
examples: text: Accuſing ſome malignant Star,
Not Britain, for that fateful War,
Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear,
Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.
ref: 1665, Edmund Waller, Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House:
text: A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,
Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,
Flew there on restless wing,
Seeking in vain one blossom, where to fix.
ref: 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
examples: text: quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: 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.
examples: text: She doesn't have to worry about stool pigeons because every law in the Federal District knows that Lupita sells junk. She keeps outfits in glasses of alcohol so the junkies can fix in the joint and walk out clean.
ref: 1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:
glosses: To shoot; to inject a drug.
Synonyms: sense: pierce
word: impale
sense: pierce
word: run through
sense: pierce
word: stick
sense: hold in place
word: join
word: put together
word: unite
word: join
sense: mend; repair
word: patch
word: put to rights
word: rectify
word: repair
sense: make a contest unfair
word: doctor
sense: make a contest unfair
word: rig
sense: render infertile
word: neuter
sense: render infertile
word: spay
sense: render infertile
word: desex
sense: render infertile
word: castrate
sense: settle or remain permanently
word: establish
sense: settle or remain permanently
word: settle down
Derived terms: affix
affixative
biofix
cryofix
fixability
fixable
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fixety
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fixing room
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fixism
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fix it again Tony
fixity
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fixly
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fix someone's clock
fix someone's flint
fix someone's wagon
fix someone up with
fix the roof while the sun is shining
fix to
fix up
fix-up
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forefix
hotfix
interfix
misfix
mixfix
overfix
perfix
postfix
refix
underfix
unfix
unfixability
you can't fix stupid