Word Finder - fix

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A repair or corrective action.

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That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.

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A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

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It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!

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A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

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A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

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A determination of location.

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We have a fix on your position.

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Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

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To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

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To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

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A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.

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To mend, to repair.

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That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

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To prepare (food or drink).

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She fixed dinner for the kids.

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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

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A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.

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To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

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Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

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(sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.

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To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

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He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.

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To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

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To convert into a stable or available form.

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Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.

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To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

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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.

Daddy wants to fix your foot.

I meant... do I have time to fix you a hot lunch?

Try as I might, I couldn't fix the time or the location anywhere close to the present where we wanted to be.

I can fix it!

You can't fix a war that's been on for hundreds of thousands of years.

Can't you fix this?

They fix beautiful thoughts in her memory.

After all of Jonny's childhood injuries she'd healed, she couldn't fix her own heart!

I can't fix this one.

You-- and Darian-- have to fix this.

And then I fix it.

I can fix the village!

Fix them like Bianca fixed you!

I can fix it.

Well how do you expect him to fix it?

I swear to you on my honor that Napoleon was in such a fix as never before and might have lost half his army but could not have taken Smolensk.

To Pierre's timid look of inquiry after reading the letter she replied by asking him to go, but to fix a definite date for his return.

I take it you don't want to fix those snakes.

Unfortunately, it occurred over night and we couldn't fix the time in spite of three attempts to do so.

We're trying to get a fix on Mrs. Gustefson's cell phone.

I thought I might be able to fix the time setting by trial and error but I was at a loss establishing a location.

We can't fix it from the mortal realm.

If he fixed me, why can't he fix her?

Whatever my half-brother did to her, that should fix it, he explained.

Just fix us some supper instead of goggling at a naked woman and getting all tingly when we don't have time.

Gabriel had to fix this.

I can't fix whatever is wrong down there, Gabriel said in frustration.

Finding a mate wasn't a priority, not when he was trying to fix his world.

He didn't know why they broke in the first place or how to fix them if it happened again.

In hand-to-hand fighting before the walls of Newcastle, Douglas is said to have won Sir Henry's pennon, which he swore to fix upon the walls of Dalkeith.

Wages have also been the subject of legislation; special commissions have been empowered to regulate the wages in the so-called " home " industries (sweating), and an arbitration board has been appointed to fix the salaries of clerks in the metal industry, thus minimizing the danger of conflicts in respect of wages having to be settled by means of strikes.

On his death in 1580, after a brief reign of seventeen months, the male line of the royal family which traced its descent from Henry, first count of Portugal (c. i ioo), came to an end; and all attempts to fix the succession during his lifetime having ignominiously failed, Portugal became an easy prey to Philip II.

This innate power of variation has enabled the florist to obtain, and ultimately to "fix," so many remarkable varieties.

Castlereagh's great efforts were rewarded by a declaration that the slave trade was to be abolished, though each power was left free to fix such a date as was most convenient to itself.

So, if you can find a way to fix it, we'll be much obliged to you.

But the poor little girl couldn't fix her attention.

Then during the first day spent in inaction and solitude (he tried several times to fix his attention on the masonic manuscripts, but was unable to do so) the idea that had previously occurred to him of the cabalistic significance of his name in connection with Bonaparte's more than once vaguely presented itself.

If he fell into my hands, when I'd caught him I'd bury him in the ground with an aspen stake to fix him down.

We are thus able to fix its exact position; for a little to the west of Bow church is Bread Street, then came a block of houses, and the next thoroughfare was Friday Street.

The various wards were each presided over by an alderman from an early period, but we cannot fix the time when they were united as a court of aldermen.

But, though we may refuse to accept the accuracy of this figure of Nabonidus, it is not possible at present to fix a definite date for the early kings of Agade.

The extraordinary variety of form and complication of structure exhibited by the appendages of the scolex are adaptations to fix FIG.

Laws were passed, for example in 1503, requiring that new ordinances of "fellowships of crafts or misteries" should be approved by the royal justices or by other crown officers; and the authority of the companies to fix the price of wares was thus restricted.

Besides giving to the world the first accurate description of the holy city and the Haj ceremonies, he was the first to fix the position of Mecca by astronomical observations, and to describe the physical character of its surroundings.

Although the double standard was in force, gold was practically demonetized by the monetary reform of 1872 because of the failure to fix a legal ratio between the two metals.

But to spread and fix the enamel so that neither at the rim nor in the interior shall there be any break of continuity, or any indication that the base is copper, not porcelain, demands quite exceptional skill.

By way of revenge, Aeschines endeavoured to fix the blame for these disasters upon Demosthenes.

For instance, some species of Philodendron have a growth like that of ivy, with feeding roots penetrating the soil and clasping roots which fix the plant to its support.

It then proceeds to fix the point of difference in the fact that no agreement had been reached on the question "whether the true body and blood of Christ are corporeally present in the bread and wine" ("Nit vergleicht haben wir uns, ob der war leib and plut Christi leiblich im brot and wein sey").

In 1888 an elective commission was established with power to fix maximum rates, which has met with general commendation throughout the country.