Fixes
['fɪksɪz]
Examples
- 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.
- It fixes the whiskey and takes the shudder right out of it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For it happens that using the muscles repeatedly in the same way fixes in them an automatic tendency to repeat. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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