Word Finder - fixes

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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.

This can save quite a bit of money as blazer fixes can often be expensive.

I decided to wait until the major bug fixes were corrected before playing the game.

She said, " There are no quick fixes.

There are a few online stores that sell replicas, but don't forget about less expensive quick fixes to your costume needs in the form of tinted swim goggles.

Another tradition - accepted by the Kurds, Syrians and Nestorians - fixes on Mount Judi, in the south of Armenia, on the left bank of the Tigris, near Jezire, as the Ark's resting-place.

He thus fixes the date at the same period as Isaac Taylor had done in his Greeks and Goths and The Alphabet.

The Ordo Romanus fixes the spring fast in the first week of March (then the first month); the summer fast in the second week of June; the autumnal fast in the third week of September; and the winter fast in the complete week next before Christmas eve.

The eyepiece micrometer allows its errors to be diminished, if one measures at different points and then fixes a mean value.

The manuscripts in which Marie's poems are preserved date from the late 13th or even the 14th century, but the language fixes the date of the poems in the second half of the 12th century.

The outer layer (the mesophyll) fixes CO2 using the enzyme PEP carboxylase to form 4-carbon organic acids.

If your dog travels on the seat they should wear a safety harness which fixes to the car seat belts.

Activision have just released this rather sizable patch for Elite Force II, which contains a long list of fixes.

Reasons for upgrading the kernel may include a better virtual memory subsystem, or important security fixes.

Scheduling Family Viewing Policy This fixes the nine o'clock watershed.

There is also a fungus named Xylaria vaporaria, which sometimes fixes itself on mushroombeds and produces such an enormous quantity of string-like spawn that the entire destruction of the bed results.

Aphides are provided with a mealy skin, which does not allow water to be attached to it, and thus insecticides for destroying them contain soft soap, which fixes the solution to the skin; paraffin is added to corrode the skin, and the up the breathing pores and so produces asphyxiation.

It is true that tradition largely fixes the form of figures and symbols in apocalyptic. Yet each new apocalypse is to some extent a reinterpretation of traditional material, which the writer uses not wholly freely but with reverence from the conviction that they contained the key to the mysteries of the present and the past.

Laurent and others were right, and that Clostridium pasteurianum, for instance, if protected from access of free oxygen by an envelope of aerobic bacteria or fungi, and provided with the carbohydrates and minerals necessary for its growth, fixes nitrogen in proportion to the amount of sugar consumed.

In what ways are chains of failures of technical fixes historically connected to chains of attempts to escape the experimenter 's regress?

If you present a manufacturer with your state's lemon laws after a number of fixes have been made, there is a chance that you will get recompense without having to take things to a legal arena.

Many people complain about how the heat is collected in most memory foam mattresses and the CoolMax Mattress fixes this issue.

Did you know there are a few quick fixes you can use to camouflage these blemishes?

Phixr.com is the ideal website for quick photo fixes.

Quick fixes, which can be found on this demo site, include how to fix an underexposed or overexposed photograph, accurate resizing techniques, masking and montage techniques and even subtler editing tricks like selecting a subject's hair.

Even people who are very confident in their baking and decorating skills can suffer some mishaps along the way, so take plenty of time to prepare for making the cake, and be ready with quick fixes if something does happen to go wrong.

From heavyweight rain suits to temporary fixes, you can find rain gear at department stores, catalogs and the Internet.

Hemming the pants and shortening the sleeves are two common fixes, but try to get the best fit possible when you shop.

Organic soil fixes vary depending on soil composition and what deficiency is present.

These differences are what make one soil different from another and influences which organic soil fixes are needed.

When searching for organic soil fixes for your clay soil, your goals should be to increase the nutrients available to your plants and to loosen the soil texture.

If you decide to purchase this game, keep in mind that you may need to download the bug patch fixes (unless they release a newer version with it included).

At the same time, the update fixes several known bugs including the teleporter bug found in the Relic map.

Quick and Easy Fashion Fixes lets you dress someone who is in need of a last minute outfit.

One of the easiest fixes for putting up long hair when nothing else is working, or when you're just in a hurry, is a classic bun.

Most Braun shaver repair needs have easy fixes.

As you can tell, there are many quick fixes for your blender problems.

While childcare vouchers can certainly save the day for parents who are in dire need of daycare for their children, participants must look at these vouchers as temporary fixes.

Should your computer crash before you do, some hotels offer technical assistance with quick fixes by "technology concierges," or 24-hour IT help lines.

While anti-spyware developers are working to develop fixes, no current program is able to detect this bug.

A user should regularly check Microsoft for updates and download critical security fixes as soon as they become available.

From small changes to large fixes, some important recalls have occurred that you may need to take care of as soon as possible.

If you're looking for quick fixes and fad diets, you won't find them here.

Unfortunately there are no quick fixes and there does not seem to be any immediate financial relief for the homeowners who want to quickly replace their defective drywall.

Perhaps the top five lingerie fixes can help.

Ruby is not about "quick fixes" or gimmicks when it comes to losing weight.

She became addicted to drugs, which led to her sex addiction as she bartered sex in order to get her fixes.

There are no quick fixes for these kinds of eye problems, but topical moisture is always beneficial.

This information is reviewed as the program checks for and fixes errors.

He was still at college in Vienna when the sudden death of his father raised him to the Khedivate; and he was barely of age according to Turkish law, which fixes majority at eighteen in cases of succession to the throne.

The presbytery fixes the former for specific business; the latter is summoned by the moderator, either on his own initiative or on the requisition of two or more members of presbytery, for the transaction of business which has suddenly emerged.