Word Finder - fixed

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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.

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Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

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Every religion has its own fixed ideas.

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Stationary.

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Attached; affixed.

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Chemically stable.

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Supplied with what one needs.

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She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.

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Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

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In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.

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Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

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a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed

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Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

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(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

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Repaired

Lisa got up every morning and fixed breakfast.

I fixed the door so it locks from the inside.

That might not be fixed for a while.

His gaze was fixed on her, so she continued.

She fixed his meals, took care of the house and chores.

And I'll stay until the issue is fixed.

The end-plane of this cylinder receives the pressure of the micrometer screw, so that by turning the small drum-head the coincidence-reading of the movable web with the fixed web can be changed, and thus any given angle can be measured with different FIG.

Everyone stood up respectfully when the Military Governor, having stayed about half an hour alone with the dying man, passed out, slightly acknowledging their bows and trying to escape as quickly as possible from the glances fixed on him by the doctors, clergy, and relatives of the family.

He went up to him, took his hand (a thing he never used to do), and drew it downwards as if wishing to ascertain whether it was firmly fixed on.

Close to the corner, on an overcoat, sat an old, unshaven, gray-bearded soldier as thin as a skeleton, with a stern sallow face and eyes intently fixed on Rostov.

She sat behind the bookcase with her eyes fixed on a streak of light escaping from the pantry door and listened to herself and pondered.

Is he ill? asked Natasha, her frightened eyes fixed on her friend.

Her irritability had suddenly quite vanished, and her anxious, imploring eyes were fixed on him with greedy expectation.

When Felipa came through the back door, Aaron fixed his attention on her.

But Natasha was not asleep; with pale face and fixed wide-open eyes she looked straight before her.

With compressed and parched lips and dry fixed eyes, she sat at the window, uneasily watching the people who drove past and hurriedly glancing round at anyone who entered the room.

A board was found, fixed on two saddles and covered with a horsecloth, a small samovar was produced and a cellaret and half a bottle of rum, and having asked Mary Hendrikhovna to preside, they all crowded round her.

From the day when Pierre, after leaving the Rostovs' with Natasha's grateful look fresh in his mind, had gazed at the comet that seemed to be fixed in the sky and felt that something new was appearing on his own horizon--from that day the problem of the vanity and uselessness of all earthly things, that had incessantly tormented him, no longer presented itself.

All eyes were fixed on him.

He glanced once at the companion's face, saw her attentive and kindly gaze fixed on him, and, as often happens when one is talking, felt somehow that this companion in the black dress was a good, kind, excellent creature who would not hinder his conversing freely with Princess Mary.

Then I'll get mine fixed.

Deidre struggled to remember if this had ever happened before and if so, how it was fixed.

If that was Gladys Turnbull's alarm clock, I hope she gets it fixed.

I fixed him, but he wasn't a fully turned vamp yet.

It came in the form of letting go of her past and embracing her future, not trying to fix something that couldn't be fixed.

Her gaze was fixed on him, something obviously going on behind eyes that couldn't decide whether they were green or blue.

His chocolate gaze was fixed on her face, exploring every inch of it.

His gaze lifted and fixed on hers.

He looked startled, his gaze fixed on her eyes.

Saturday morning Alex was lounging against the kitchen counter nursing a cup of coffee while she fixed breakfast.

When she looked up at him, his attention was fixed on Senor Medena.

She leaned forward in her chair and fixed her attention on him.

He lunged out of the chair and fixed her with an incredulous stare.

A gas station that fixed flats, a few houses and the store – that was about it.

It was completely fixed.

And the nature of this reality again can neither be consistently represented as a fixed and hard substance nor as an unalterable something, but only as a fixed order of recurrence of continually changing events or impressions.

But, further, every attempt to think clearly what those relations are, what we really mean, if we talk of a fixed order of events, forces upon us the necessity of thinking also that the different things which stand in relations or the different phases which follow each other cannot be merely externally strung together or moved about by some indefinable external power, in the form of some predestination or inexorable fate.

It is supposed by some that Saccharomyces is a very degraded Ascomycete, in which the Torula condition has become fixed.

Annual Variation.-When observations are made at irregular hours, or at only one or two fixed hours, it is doubtful how representative they are.

In 803 and 810 he made a treaty with Charlemagne, by which the limits of the two empires were amicably fixed.

Between this point and the time when equity became settled as a portion of the legal system, having fixed principles of its own, various views of its nature seem to have prevailed.

A fixed fine, for example, operates very unequally on rich and poor.

The micrometer of Auzout and Picard was provided with silk fibres or silver wires instead of the edges of Gascoigne, but one of the silk fibres remained fixed while the other was moved by a screw.

Each movable web must pass the other without coming in contact with it or the fixed wire, and without rubbing on any part of the brasswork.

Next the star B is bisected by the fixed web and A by the movable one.

The obvious remedy is to make all measures on opposite sides of the fixed web before reversing in position-angle - a precaution, however, which no careful observer would neglect.

But in OS measures index error can be eliminated by bisecting both stars with the same web (or different webs of known interval fixed on the same frame), and not employing the fixed web at all.

The cylinder is rigidly fixed in the studs C, C, and these are attached to the foundation plate f.

The five fixed webs are attached to the table which is secured to the bottom of the box by the screws p. The three movable webs are attached to the projections XX on the frame aa.

These furrows have apparently been cut in situ with a very accurate engine; for not the slightest departure from parallelism can be detected in any of the movable webs relative to the fixed webs.