Fix

[fɪks]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear; 'collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers'.

(noun.) something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug; 'she needed a fix of chocolate'.

(noun.) informal terms for a difficult situation; 'he got into a terrible fix'; 'he made a muddle of his marriage'.

(verb.) make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc; 'Get the children ready for school!'; 'prepare for war'; 'I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill'.

(verb.) kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study.

(verb.) set or place definitely; 'Let's fix the date for the party!'.

(verb.) influence an event or its outcome by illegal means; 'fix a race'.

斐迪南整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Fixed; solidified.

(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

(v. t.) To transfix; to pierce.

(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.

(v. t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

(v. i.) 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.

(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

(n.) fettling.

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同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Set, place, establish, plant, fasten, make firm or stable.[2]. Attach, tie, make fast.[3]. Determine, define, limit, appoint, settle.[4]. Rivet, direct steadily.[5]. Solidify, consolidate.[6]. [Vulgarly so used in the U. S.] Arrange, adjust, set in order, put in order, put to rights, set to rights.

n. [Colloquial, U. S.] Predicament, dilemma, plight, PICKLE.

安尼塔整理

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Place, settle, fasten, link, locate, attach, consolidate, tie, plant, root,establish, secure, determine, decide

ANT:Displace, unsettle, disarrange, remove, uproot, transfer, transplant,disestablish, weaken, shake, reverse, disturb, change, unfix

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解釋/意思:

v.t. to make firm or fast: to establish: to drive into: to settle: to put into permanent form: to establish as a fact: to direct steadily: to regulate: to deprive of volatility.—v.i. to settle or remain permanently: to become firm: to congeal.—n. (coll.) a difficulty: a dilemma.—adj. Fix′able capable of being fixed.—ns. Fixā′tion act of fixing or state of being fixed: steadiness firmness: state in which a body does not evaporate; Fix′ative that which fixes or sets colours; Fix′ature a gummy preparation for fixing the hair.—adj. Fixed settled: not apt to evaporate: steadily directed towards: fast lasting permanent: substantively for fixed stars (Par. Lost III. 481).—adv. Fix′edly.—ns. Fix′edness; Fix′er; Fixid′ity Fix′ity fixedness.—n.pl. Fix′ings things needed for putting in order arrangement.—adj. Fix′ive.—ns. Fix′ture a movable that has become fastened to anything as to land or to a house: a fixed article of furniture: a fixed or appointed time or event as a horse-race; Fix′ure (Shak.) stability position firmness.—Fixed air the name given by Dr Joseph Black in 1756 to what in 1784 was named by Lavoisier carbonic acid; Fixed bodies (chem.) a term applied to those substances which remain fixed and are not volatilised at moderately high temperatures; Fixed oils those which on the application of heat do not volatilise without decomposition; Fixed stars stars which appear always to occupy the same position in the heavens—opp. to Planets.

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