FIX

verb fixes · fixing · fixt · fixed

1. obsolete, transitive To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
2. broadly, obsolete, transitive (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
3. transitive To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
4. figuratively, passive, transitive, usually To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
5. transitive 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.
6. transitive To mend, to repair. That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
7. excessive, transitive To be immensely pleasurable to. Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
8. ditransitive, informal To prepare (food or drink). She fixed dinner for the kids.
9. transitive 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. A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
10. US, informal, transitive To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
11. transitive To map (a point or subset) to itself. 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.
12. informal, transitive To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
13. transitive To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
14. transitive To convert into a stable or available form. Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
15. intransitive To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Accuſing ſome malignant Star, Not Britain, for that fateful War, Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear, Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.
16. intransitive 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. quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer
17. intransitive, slang To shoot up; to inject a drug. 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.
18. transitive To arrange (an event etc.). Could you fix it for me to meet the band backstage?

Similar: impale, run through, stick, join, put together, unite, put to rights, rectify, patch, neuter, spay, desex

noun fixes · fixe

1. A repair or corrective action. That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
3. slang A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.
4. broadly, figuratively, slang Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
5. broadly, figuratively, slang A compulsive desire or thrill.
6. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.
7. An understanding, grasp of something. 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.
8. A determination of location. We have a fix on your position.
9. A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
10. US Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).

noun FIXs

1. abbreviation Abbreviation of factor IX (clotting factor IX).factor IX

proper noun Fixes

1. A surname.