Fix
[fɪks]
Definition
(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'.
Inputed by Ferdinand--From WordNet
Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
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.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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
Typed by Hiram
Definition
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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Examples
- I hadn't any particular work to give him, but I had a number of small induction coils, and to give him something to do I told him to fix them up and sell them among his sailor friends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Many were convinced that the end of the world was at hand, and strove to fix their thoughts solely on the world to come. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The others all got down to fix their saddles, too. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It is usual to fix the opaque shade, which alternately covers and exposes the two magic lanterns, on to a central pin, so that it may be moved vertically up or down. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- She would not fix any definite time--she still wavered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I ventured to say that I knew what the trouble was, and he said, 'Fix it! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He fixed his vivid eyes on Archer as he lit another cigarette. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We treat it simply as a privation because we are measuring it by adulthood as a fixed standard. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The marriage is fixed for the twenty-second of December. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The cuttle-fish had a face that stared straight from the heart of the light, very fixed and coldly intent. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She fixed him with her eye. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- In less than an hour poor Fanny opened her eyes and fixed them on me with a bright smile, expressive of the purest happiness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At the bottom of the penstock is placed a turbine wheel fixed on a shaft, and to which shaft is connected an electric generator or other power machine. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You have a dancing face, Brummell quietly observed, fixing his eyes steadily on her countenance for a second or two, and then passing on. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He said he had entreated her to favour him by maintaining her privilege of fixing the time for the marriage at her own will and pleasure. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Aztecs of Mexico and the Incas of Peru used the process of fixing two metals together by the action of heat, before making up. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Here we made laws for ourselves, dividing our day, and fixing distinct occupations for each hour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They were in the ballroom, the violins were playing, and her mind was in a flutter that forbade its fixing on anything serious. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- He paused, flushed by his diatribe, and fixing on her a look in which resentment was the ingredient she least disliked. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Let me see, said the Prince, who dare stop him, fixing his eye on Cedric, whose attitude intimated his intention to hurl the Jew down headlong. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Above all, the intellectual element in a habit fixes the relation of the habit to varied and elastic use, and hence to continued growth. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Here the view always fixes when we are actuated by either of these passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This heating or vulcanizing process fixes the elasticity of the rubber, increases its strength enormously and unites the parts in such a way as to make the shoe practically one piece. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This fixes attention upon what the child has not, and will not have till he becomes a man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It acquiesces in them; and, in a manner, fixes and reposes itself on them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It records and fixes and enables thought to get on to more and more complex ideas. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Whatever is important engages our attention, fixes our thought, and is contemplated with satisfaction. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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