Word: fix Part of Speech: verb 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. Pronunciation: /ˈfɪks/, [ˈfɪks] 1. To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. Labels: obsolete, transitive 2. To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. Labels: broadly, obsolete, transitive Example: He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!" Example: She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye. 3. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. Labels: transitive Example: A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board. Example: A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it. 4. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. Labels: figuratively, passive, transitive, usually Example: She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor. 5. To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. Labels: transitive 6. To mend, to repair. Labels: transitive Example: That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it. Example: You can't fix stupid. 7. To mend, to repair. Labels: excessive, transitive Example: Some pizza rolls would fix me right now. Example: Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me. 8. To prepare (food or drink). Labels: ditransitive, informal Example: She fixed dinner for the kids. Example: 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. 9. 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. Labels: transitive Example: A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent. 10. To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. Labels: US, informal, transitive Example: Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him. 11. To map (a point or subset) to itself. Labels: transitive Example: 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. 12. To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. Labels: informal, transitive Example: He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work. 13. To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. Labels: transitive 14. To convert into a stable or available form. Labels: transitive Example: Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen. Example: it is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual 15. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Labels: intransitive Example: Accuſing ſome malignant Star, Not Britain, for that fateful War, Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear, Reſolv’d to fix for ever here. Example: 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. 16. 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. Labels: intransitive Example: quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer 17. To shoot up; to inject a drug. Labels: intransitive, slang Example: 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. 18. To arrange (an event etc.). Labels: transitive Example: Could you fix it for me to meet the band backstage?