Definition of fixes Fixes
/fɪˈksɪz/ - [fiksiz] -
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- fixes (Noun)
Plural of fix.
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| fix - informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" | ||
| hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish | ||
| difficulty the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" | ||
| fix - something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug; "she needed a fix of chocolate" | ||
| intravenous injection an injection into a vein | ||
| fix - an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear; "collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers" | ||
| fix - the act of putting something in working order again | ||
| repair, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation | ||
| improvement the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property" | ||
| darning the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | ||
| patching the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it | ||
| upkeep, maintenance, care the unauthorized interference in a legal action by a person having no interest in it (as by helping one party with money or otherwise to continue the action) so as to obstruct justice or promote unnecessary litigation or unsettle the peace of the community; "unlike champerty, criminal maintenance does not necessarily involve personal profit" | ||
| quick fix, quickie, quicky, band aid hurried repair | ||
| restoration the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state | ||
| reconstruction the activity of constructing something again | ||
| fix - a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" | ||
| localization, localisation, location, locating | ||
| finding, determination the decision of a court on issues of fact or law | ||
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| fix - 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" | ||
| prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| socialise, socialize make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!" | ||
| provide take measures in preparation for; "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship" | ||
| cram prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam | ||
| precondition put into the required condition beforehand | ||
| fix 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" | ||
| mount fix onto a backing, setting, or support; "mount slides for macroscopic analysis" | ||
| lay out, set up, set provide a detailed plan or design; "She laid out her plans for the new house" | ||
| winterise, winterize prepare for winter; "winterize cars"; "winterize your houses" | ||
| summerise, summerize prepare for summer; "summerize your car"; "summerize a house" | ||
| prime insert a primer into (a gun, mine, or charge) preparatory to detonation or firing; "prime a cannon"; "prime a mine" | ||
| cultivate, crop, work prepare for crops; "Work the soil"; "cultivate the land" | ||
| brace, poise support by bracing | ||
| fix - kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study | ||
| gear up, ready, prepare, fix, set up, set to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech" | ||
| cytology the branch of biology that studies the structure and function of cells | ||
| fix - set or place definitely; "Let's fix the date for the party!" | ||
| institute, found, constitute, plant, establish advance or set forth in court; "bring charges", "institute proceedings" | ||
| fix - influence an event or its outcome by illegal means; "fix a race" | ||
| act upon, influence, work have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate" | ||
| fix - cause to be firmly attached; "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man" | ||
| fasten, secure | ||
| unfasten become undone or untied; "The shoelaces unfastened" | ||
| fasten attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other" | ||
| attach be attached; be in contact with | ||
| strap secure (a sprained joint) with a strap | ||
| tie, bind form a knot or bow in; "tie a necktie" | ||
| rig equip with sails or masts; "rig a ship" | ||
| bitt secure with a bitt; "bitt the ship line" | ||
| latch fasten with a latch; "latch the door" | ||
| garter fasten with or as if with a garter | ||
| chain fasten or secure with chains; "Chain the chairs together" | ||
| cable send cables, wires, or telegrams | ||
| picket fasten with a picket; "picket the goat" | ||
| rope up attach to one another, for safety; "The mountaineers roped up when they started the final ascent" | ||
| girth, cinch get a grip on; get mastery of | ||
| bandage, bind dress by covering or binding; "The nurse bandaged a sprained ankle"; "bandage an incision" | ||
| cramp suffer from sudden painful contraction of a muscle | ||
| cleat secure on a cleat; "cleat a line" | ||
| cast anchor, drop anchor, anchor secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore" | ||
| anchor, ground secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore" | ||
| moor secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat" | ||
| berth, moor, tie up provide with a berth | ||
| spike manifest a sharp increase; "the voltage spiked" | ||
| sew together, stitch, sew, run up fasten by sewing; do needlework | ||
| crank bend into the shape of a crank | ||
| noose secure with a noose | ||
| chock support on chocks; "chock the boat" | ||
| brad fasten with brads | ||
| bight fasten with a bight | ||
| belay fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | ||
| belay fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat | ||
| bar prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" | ||
| clamp impose or inflict forcefully; "The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital" | ||
| velcro fasten with Velcro; "velcro the belt" | ||
| stay stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" | ||
| clinch settle conclusively; "clinch a deal" | ||
| clinch settle conclusively; "clinch a deal" | ||
| lock become rigid or immoveable; "The therapist noticed that the patient's knees tended to lock in this exercise" | ||
| lock up secure by locking; "lock up the house before you go on vacation" | ||
| hasp secure or lock with a hasp | ||
| zip up, zipper, zip close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" | ||
| tack fasten with tacks; "tack the notice on the board" | ||
| string add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" | ||
| hook approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" | ||
| belt fasten with a belt; "belt your trousers" | ||
| cement make fast as if with cement; "We cemented our friendship" | ||
| grout bind with grout; "grout the bathtub" | ||
| staple secure or fasten with a staple or staples; "staple the papers together" | ||
| rivet hold (someone's attention); "The discovery of the skull riveted the paleontologists" | ||
| button fasten with buttons; "button the dress" | ||
| pin immobilize a piece | ||
| hang up, hang interrupt a telephone conversation | ||
| hang suspend (meat) in order to get a gamey taste; "hang the venison for a few days" | ||
| wedge, deposit, lodge, stick squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" | ||
| intrench, entrench fix firmly or securely | ||
| buckle, clasp fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" | ||
| brooch, clasp fasten with or as if with a brooch | ||
| stake mark with a stake; "stake out the path" | ||
| wire fasten with wire; "The columns were wired to the beams for support" | ||
| coapt fit tightly and fasten | ||
| joggle fasten or join with a joggle | ||
| joint separate (meat) at the joint | ||
| toggle release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane" | ||
| fix - restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken; "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please" | ||
| repair, mend, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on | ||
| bust, break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better make amendments to; "amend the document" | ||
| tinker, fiddle try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend" | ||
| fill plug with a substance; "fill a cavity" | ||
| patch, piece mend by putting a patch on; "patch a hole" | ||
| cobble repair or mend; "cobble shoes" | ||
| repoint, point repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney" | ||
| trouble-shoot, troubleshoot solve problems; "He is known to be good at trouble-shooting" | ||
| patch up, patch mend by putting a patch on; "patch a hole" | ||
| resole, sole put a new sole on; "sole the shoes" | ||
| revamp, vamp to patch up or renovate; repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it" | ||
| reheel, heel put a new heel on; "heel shoes" | ||
| darn repair by sewing; "darn socks" | ||
| fix - prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" | ||
| cook, ready, make, prepare | ||
| create from raw material, create from raw stuff make from scratch | ||
| preserve, keep prevent (food) from rotting; "preserved meats"; "keep potatoes fresh" | ||
| dress out, dress arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" | ||
| deglaze dissolve cooking juices or solid food in (a pan) by adding liquid and stirring | ||
| escallop, scallop shape or cut in scallops; "scallop the hem of the dress" | ||
| flambe pour liquor over and ignite (a dish) | ||
| put on add to something existing; "She put on a sun room" | ||
| devil coat or stuff with a spicy paste; "devilled eggs" | ||
| precook cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long; "precook the rice" | ||
| whip up, whomp up prepare or cook quickly or hastily | ||
| cook up, concoct make a concoction (of) by mixing | ||
| lard prepare or cook with lard; "lard meat" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| fix - decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" | ||
| specify, set, determine, define, limit | ||
| select, pick out, choose, take pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" | ||
| quantify express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?" | ||
| name mention and identify by name; "name your accomplices!" | ||
| reset set to zero; "reset instruments and dials" | ||
| define give a definition for the meaning of a word; "Define `sadness'" | ||
| fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" | ||
| sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise | ||
| operate on, operate perform surgery on; "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life" | ||
| neuter, spay, castrate, alter remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" | ||
| demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate, castrate remove the testicles of a male animal | ||
| vasectomise, vasectomize remove the vas deferens; "many men choose to be vasectomized as a form of safe birth control" | ||
| fix - put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" | ||
| situate, posit, deposit | ||
| position, lay, pose, put, place, set cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | ||
| bury place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" | ||
| sediment settle as sediment | ||
| fix - make fixed, stable or stationary; "let's fix the picture to the frame" | ||
| fixate | ||
| attach be attached; be in contact with | ||
| fix - take vengeance on or get even; "We'll get them!"; "That'll fix him good!"; "This time I got him" | ||
| pay back, pay off, get | ||
| get even, get back take revenge or even out a score; "I cannot accept the defeat--I want to get even" | ||
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Wiktionary
- fix (Noun)
A repair or corrective action. - fix (Noun)
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma. - fix (Noun)
A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. - fix (Noun)
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. - fix (Noun)
A determination of location. - fix (Noun)
fettlings. - fix (Verb)
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. - fix (Verb)
Of a piercing look to direct at someone. - fix (Verb)
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!". - fix (Verb)
To attach; to affix; to hold in place . - fix (Verb)
To focus or determine oneself, on a concept; to fixate. - fix (Verb)
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor. - fix (Verb)
To mend, to repair. - fix (Verb)
To prepare food. - fix (Verb)
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 extortionSutherland, Edwin H. ed 1937: The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades. - fix (Verb)
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. - fix (Verb)
To map a point or subset to itself. - fix (Verb)
To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- fix (a.)
Fixed; solidified. - fix (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. - fix (v. t.)
To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. - fix (v. t.)
To transfix; to pierce. - fix (v. t.)
To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. - fix (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. - fix (v. t.)
To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. - fix (v. i.)
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. - fix (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. - fix (n.)
A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma. - fix (n.)
fettling.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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To change the state of an item (e.g. which was torn or broken) to a working condition again. -
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To prepare (a meal, a feast). -
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To make something fixed or stable; to cause to be firmly attached. -
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To take revenge on or get even.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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fiks, 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. [L., fixus, figĕre, to fix, prob. through O. Fr. fix, or Low L. fixāre.]
