Pronunciations (3)
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/fɪks/
Pronunciation notes
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/fəks/
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ˈfɪks
Verb
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
Usage- Obsolete
- Transitive
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
Usage- broadly
- Obsolete
- Transitive
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He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
Usage- Transitive
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A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
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The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
We've come a long, long way boys! Now it's time for America to show its teeth. Fix bayonets!
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
Usage- Figurative
- passive
- Transitive
- usually
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She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
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.
Usage- Transitive
To mend, to repair.
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That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
You can't fix stupid.
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Fix this for me.
To mend, to repair. To be immensely pleasurable to.
Usage- excessive
- Transitive
- with would
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Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.
To prepare (food or drink).
Usage- Ditransitive
- Informal
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She fixed dinner for the kids.
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.
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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.
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.
Usage- Transitive
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A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
Usage- US usage
- Informal
- Transitive
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Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
To map (a point or subset) to itself.
Usage- Transitive
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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.
To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
Usage- Informal
- Transitive
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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.
Usage- Transitive
To convert into a stable or available form.
Usage- Transitive
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Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
it is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Usage- Intransitive
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Accuſing ſome malignant Star, Not Britain, for that fateful War, Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear, Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.
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.
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.
Usage- Intransitive
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quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer
To shoot up; to inject a drug.
Usage- Intransitive
- Slang
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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.
To arrange (an event etc.).
Usage- Transitive
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Could you fix it for me to meet the band backstage?
Noun
A repair or corrective action.
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That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
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Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
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It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
"How come you're in this fix?"
A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
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And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.
Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.
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Just one fix!
A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
Usage- broadly
- Figurative
- Slang
A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. A compulsive desire or thrill.
Usage- broadly
- Figurative
- Slang
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
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As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.
An understanding, grasp of something.
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Each character comes to us with her own particular fix on reality, shaped by a lifetime of experience and by the urgencies of the moment.
A determination of location.
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We have a fix on your position.
A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
Usage- US usage
Noun
informal terms for a difficult situation
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he got into a terrible fix
he made a muddle of his marriage
something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
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she needed a fix of chocolate
the act of putting something in working order again
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an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
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collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers
a determination of the place where something is
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he got a good fix on the target
Verb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
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She repaired her TV set
Repair my shoes please
cause to be firmly attached
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fasten the lock onto the door
she fixed her gaze on the man
decide upon or fix definitely
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fix the variables
specify the parameters
prepare for eating by applying heat
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Cook me dinner, please
can you make me an omelette?
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fix breakfast for the guests, please
take vengeance on or get even
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We'll get them!
That'll fix him good!
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This time I got him
set or place definitely
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Let's fix the date for the party!
kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
make fixed, stable or stationary
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let's fix the picture to the frame
make infertile
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in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilities are sterilized
influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
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fix a race
put (something somewhere) firmly
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She posited her hand on his shoulder
deposit the suitcase on the bench
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fix your eyes on this spot
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
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Get the children ready for school!
prepare for war
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I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
to be about to do something