fixingn.

/ˈfɪksɪŋ/

Etymology: < fix adj. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of fix v. in various senses. Also with adverbs, as fixing out, fixing up; and gerundially with omission of in.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun]

fixing1605

armoury1716

weapon-making1936

weaponeering1955

society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration

dispositionc1374

ministrationc1390

disposing1406

procuration?a1425

guidingc1425

economy?1440

conduct1454

solicitation1492

regimenta1500

mayning1527

enterprisea1533

handlinga1538

conduction1565

manyment1567

disposure1569

conveyance1572

managing1579

disposement1583

government1587

carriage1589

manage1591

steerage1597

management1598

steering1599

manurance1604

fixing1605

dispose1611

administry?1616

husbandry1636

dispensatorship1637

admin1641

managery1643

disposal1649

mesnagery1653

contrectation1786

conducting1793

wielding1820

managership1864

operation1872

operating1913

case management1918

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun]

dighting1340

repairinga1387

mending1402

reparellingc1410

reparation?a1425

beeting1517

reparationing1536

remending1537

righting1615–16

fixing up1769

servicing1918

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > fitting shell with fuse

fixing1769

fusing1895

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying > equipping or fitting out

furniture1529

reparelling1534

outsetting1561

equipage1598

arming1599

accoutring1653

equipping1704

equipment1748

outfit1748

outfitting1822

fixing out1883

society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > determining price of gold

fixing1939

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Yy3^v The fixing of the good [hours of the mind] hath bene practised by two meanes, vowes..and obseruances, or exercises.

1666 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1743) I. 251 I find multitudes of arms are fixing amongst the Irish gunsmiths.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Mortar While the shells are fixing, the powder-room is to be shut.

1792 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 267 To superintend the fixing up of the said figure.

1817 J. Keats Lett. in Wks. (1889) III. 53 Another reason of my fixing is, that I am more in reach of the places around me.

1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 157 For the daughters..table-linen and bedding were to be stored away for their fixing out.

1910 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 36 28 This enables the breeder to dispense entirely with the old and laborious method of so-called ‘fixing’ by continuous selection.

1929 C. E. McClung Handbk. Microsc. Technique i. 7 Fixing is the process of preserving, by means of coagulation, the normal structural characters of organs, tissues and cells.

1939 Times 10 July 13/1 Gold to the amount of £183,000 was dealt in at the fixing.

1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 202/1 Gold fixing, determining the price of gold on the London Gold Market.

1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 264/1 The traditional ‘gold-fixing’ is carried out [at the premises of N. M. Rothschild in London] by representatives of four firms of bullion dealers.

1967 Times 18 Mar. 16/5 At the fixing in London the gold price was lowered 1d. to 251s. 5¼d.

b. Photography. The process of rendering (a negative, etc.) permanent; concrete that which fixes.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > fixing agent

fixing1853

hypo1855

preservative1862

fixing-bath1868

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > rendering negative permanent

fixing1853

1853 Family Herald 3 Dec. 510/2 In the next operation, the fixing, it will become much lighter.

c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 146/1 Hyposulphite of soda is largely prepared for photographic ‘fixing’.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 65 For the fixing of the image we should recommend the use of a dipping bath.

c. A method or means of fixing. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > method of fixing securely

anchorage1599

fixing1660

1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 360 [The Jewish feasts] were..only..fixings of their thoughts, apt to wander to the Gentile Customes.

1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 121 To cut the rock..so as to get a firm fixing for our work.

2. concrete.

a. In plural (originally U.S.) Apparatus, equipment; trimming of a dress; the adjuncts to any dish, garnishing. Also (Australian slang), strong liquor (Barrère and Leland 1889). Also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > garnish > [noun]

garnish1673

fixing1820

topping1926

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation

pertinencea1513

garnish1527

trapping1596

trimming1625

trim1665

garniture1668

trimmage1693

fixing1820

fakement1843

doings1847

the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements

ornament?c1225

i-wendea1250

atil1297

tacklea1325

apparel1330

conreyc1330

farec1330

tirec1330

apparementc1340

apparelmentc1374

graithc1375

appurtenancec1386

geara1400

warnementa1400

stuff1406

parelling?a1440

farrements1440

stuffurec1440

skippeson1444

harnessa1450

parela1450

implements1454

reparel1466

ordinance1475

habiliments1483

ornation1483

muniments1485

mountures1489

outred1489

accomplement?c1525

trinketc1525

garnishing1530

garniture1532

accoutrementsc1550

furniments1553

tackling1558

instrument1563

ordinara1578

appointment?1578

outreiking1584

appoint1592

dighting1598

outreik1598

apparate?c1600

accomplishment1605

attirail1611

coutrement1621

apparatusa1628

equipage1648

thing1662

equipment1717

paraphernalia1736

tack1777

outfit1787

fittinga1817

fixing1820

set-out1831

rigging1837

fixture1854

parapherna1876

clobber1890

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking

ornament?c1225

i-wendea1250

atil1297

tacklea1325

apparel1330

conreyc1330

farec1330

tirec1330

apparementc1340

apparelmentc1374

graithc1375

appurtenancec1386

geara1400

warnementa1400

stuff1406

parelling?a1440

farrements1440

stuffurec1440

skippeson1444

harnessa1450

parela1450

implements1454

reparel1466

ordinance1475

habiliments1483

ornation1483

muniments1485

outred1489

trinketc1525

garnishing1530

garniture1532

accoutrementsc1550

furniments1553

tackling1558

instrument1563

ordinara1578

appointment?1578

outreiking1584

supellectile1584

appoint1592

dighting1598

outreik1598

materialsa1600

apparate?c1600

attirail1611

coutrement1621

apparatusa1628

outrig1639

equipage1648

thing1662

equipment1717

paraphernalia1736

fixture1767

tack1777

outfit1787

fittinga1817

fixing1820

matériel1821

set-out1831

rigging1837

parapherna1876

clobber1890

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]

drink1042

liquor1340

bousea1350

cidera1382

dwale1393

sicera1400

barrelc1400

strong drinkc1405

watera1475

swig1548

tipple1581

amber1598

tickle-brain1598

malt pie1599

swill1602

spicket1615

lap1618

John Barleycornc1625

pottle1632

upsy Englisha1640

upsy Friese1648

tipplage1653

heartsease1668

fuddle1680

rosin1691

tea1693

suck1699

guzzlea1704

alcohol1742

the right stuff1748

intoxicant1757

lush1790

tear-brain1796

demon1799

rum1799

poison1805

fogram1808

swizzle1813

gatter1818

wine(s) and spirit(s)1819

mother's milkc1821

skink1823

alcoholics1832

jough1834

alky1844

waipiro1845

medicine1847

stimulant1848

booze1859

tiddly1859

neck oil1860

lotion1864

shrab1867

nose paint1880

fixing1882

wet1894

rabbit1895

shicker1900

jollop1920

mule1920

giggle-water1929

rookus juice1929

River Ouse1931

juice1932

lunatic soup1933

wallop1933

skimish1936

sauce1940

turps1945

grog1946

joy juice1960

1820–1 R. Flower Let. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) X. 126 ‘There wife,’ said he, ‘did you ever see such fixings?’ He felt the paper, looked in a mirror.., and gazed with amazement.

1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. ii. 30 ‘Your fixen seem none of the best for such a calling.’

1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 228 White wheat and chicken fixings.

1840 Kentucky Rifle (Danville, Kentucky) 31 Oct. 110/2 Let every man that can play a fiddle or blow a horn, bring his fixins along and make music.

1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 46 Said my opposite neighbour, handing me a dish of potatoes..‘will you try some of these fixings?’

1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 31 Throw yourself wide on the literary fixins and poetry, for the galls.

1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ii. 21 Delicious frog ‘fixings’.

1855 R. Browning Bishop Blougram in Men & Women II. 212 Neat ship-shape fixings and contrivances.

1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. i. 18 We don't make no charge for the ride an' all the other fixins.

1864 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 333 There is a setting of surroundings—as the Americans would say, of fixings—without which the reality is not itself.

1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 30 He's.. lost his rod and fixins.

1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/1 Fixings, certain items like plugs, pallets, nogs and backings used to fix joinery.

1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves v. 40 She was undeniably an eyeful, being slim, svelte and bountifully equipped with golden hair and all the fixings.

b. = fix n. 2.

ΚΠ

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 874/2.

Compounds

C1.

fixing agent n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > fixative

fixer1849

fixing agent1855

fixative1870

1855 T. F. Hardwich Man. Photogr. Chem. v. 52 The Iodide and Bromide of Potassium have both been employed as fixing agents.

1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. iv. 28 In determining the fixing agent to employ in silver printing.

1919 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. Almanac 248 The fixing agent is hypo.

1936 C. J. Wallis Pract. Biol. 6 Immerse the object in several times its own volume of the fixing agent.

1944 B. J. Orban Oral Histol. & Embryol. xvi. 326 The length of time necessary for a fixing agent to act upon a tissue varies.

1968 C. E. Engel Photogr. for Scientist v. 254 The fixing agent must not affect the silver of the developed image.

fixing fluid n.

ΚΠ

1927 H. E. Jordan Text-bk. Histol. (ed. 4) xx. 727 An excellent fixing fluid for general embryologic work.

fixing process n.

ΚΠ

c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 141/2 The fixing process is intended to dissolve away that portion of the silver salt which has not been acted on by the light.

fixing solution n. Photography.

ΚΠ

1872 W. F. Stanley Photogr. 21 The quantity of fixing solution required will be in proportion to the number of prints to be fixed.

C2.

fixing-bath n. (a) Photography the bath in which a developed negative or positive is plunged in order to fix it; (b) Tanning (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > fixing agent

fixing1853

hypo1855

preservative1862

fixing-bath1868

1868 M. C. Lea Man. Photogr. 35 The negative fixing-bath consists of a strong solution of hyposulphite of soda.

1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxxix. 601 [The tanner] prepares a new liquor termed the ‘fixing-bath’, consisting of water sufficient to cover the skins [etc.].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fixing
释义	fixingn. /ˈfɪksɪŋ/ Etymology: < fix adj. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of fix v. in various senses. Also with adverbs, as fixing out, fixing up; and gerundially with omission of in. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > production and development of arms > [noun] fixing1605 armoury1716 weapon-making1936 weaponeering1955 society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration dispositionc1374 ministrationc1390 disposing1406 procuration?a1425 guidingc1425 economy?1440 conduct1454 solicitation1492 regimenta1500 mayning1527 enterprisea1533 handlinga1538 conduction1565 manyment1567 disposure1569 conveyance1572 managing1579 disposement1583 government1587 carriage1589 manage1591 steerage1597 management1598 steering1599 manurance1604 fixing1605 dispose1611 administry?1616 husbandry1636 dispensatorship1637 admin1641 managery1643 disposal1649 mesnagery1653 contrectation1786 conducting1793 wielding1820 managership1864 operation1872 operating1913 case management1918 society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > mending or repairing > [noun] dighting1340 repairinga1387 mending1402 reparellingc1410 reparation?a1425 beeting1517 reparationing1536 remending1537 righting1615–16 fixing up1769 servicing1918 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > fitting shell with fuse fixing1769 fusing1895 the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > action of providing or supplying > equipping or fitting out furniture1529 reparelling1534 outsetting1561 equipage1598 arming1599 accoutring1653 equipping1704 equipment1748 outfit1748 outfitting1822 fixing out1883 society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > pricing > [noun] > determining price of gold fixing1939 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Yy3^v The fixing of the good [hours of the mind] hath bene practised by two meanes, vowes..and obseruances, or exercises. View more context for this quotation 1666 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1743) I. 251 I find multitudes of arms are fixing amongst the Irish gunsmiths. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Mortar While the shells are fixing, the powder-room is to be shut. 1792 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 267 To superintend the fixing up of the said figure. 1817 J. Keats Lett. in Wks. (1889) III. 53 Another reason of my fixing is, that I am more in reach of the places around me. 1883 E. C. Rollins New Eng. Bygones (new ed.) 157 For the daughters..table-linen and bedding were to be stored away for their fixing out. 1910 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 36 28 This enables the breeder to dispense entirely with the old and laborious method of so-called ‘fixing’ by continuous selection. 1929 C. E. McClung Handbk. Microsc. Technique i. 7 Fixing is the process of preserving, by means of coagulation, the normal structural characters of organs, tissues and cells. 1939 Times 10 July 13/1 Gold to the amount of £183,000 was dealt in at the fixing. 1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 202/1 Gold fixing, determining the price of gold on the London Gold Market. 1965 J. L. Hanson Dict. Econ. 264/1 The traditional ‘gold-fixing’ is carried out [at the premises of N. M. Rothschild in London] by representatives of four firms of bullion dealers. 1967 Times 18 Mar. 16/5 At the fixing in London the gold price was lowered 1d. to 251s. 5¼d. b. Photography. The process of rendering (a negative, etc.) permanent; concrete that which fixes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > fixing agent fixing1853 hypo1855 preservative1862 fixing-bath1868 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > [noun] > rendering negative permanent fixing1853 1853 Family Herald 3 Dec. 510/2 In the next operation, the fixing, it will become much lighter. c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 146/1 Hyposulphite of soda is largely prepared for photographic ‘fixing’. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) III. 65 For the fixing of the image we should recommend the use of a dipping bath. c. A method or means of fixing. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > method of fixing securely anchorage1599 fixing1660 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 360 [The Jewish feasts] were..only..fixings of their thoughts, apt to wander to the Gentile Customes. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) 121 To cut the rock..so as to get a firm fixing for our work. 2. concrete. a. In plural (originally U.S.) Apparatus, equipment; trimming of a dress; the adjuncts to any dish, garnishing. Also (Australian slang), strong liquor (Barrère and Leland 1889). Also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > garnish > [noun] garnish1673 fixing1820 topping1926 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation pertinencea1513 garnish1527 trapping1596 trimming1625 trim1665 garniture1668 trimmage1693 fixing1820 fakement1843 doings1847 the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements ornament?c1225 i-wendea1250 atil1297 tacklea1325 apparel1330 conreyc1330 farec1330 tirec1330 apparementc1340 apparelmentc1374 graithc1375 appurtenancec1386 geara1400 warnementa1400 stuff1406 parelling?a1440 farrements1440 stuffurec1440 skippeson1444 harnessa1450 parela1450 implements1454 reparel1466 ordinance1475 habiliments1483 ornation1483 muniments1485 mountures1489 outred1489 accomplement?c1525 trinketc1525 garnishing1530 garniture1532 accoutrementsc1550 furniments1553 tackling1558 instrument1563 ordinara1578 appointment?1578 outreiking1584 appoint1592 dighting1598 outreik1598 apparate?c1600 accomplishment1605 attirail1611 coutrement1621 apparatusa1628 equipage1648 thing1662 equipment1717 paraphernalia1736 tack1777 outfit1787 fittinga1817 fixing1820 set-out1831 rigging1837 fixture1854 parapherna1876 clobber1890 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking ornament?c1225 i-wendea1250 atil1297 tacklea1325 apparel1330 conreyc1330 farec1330 tirec1330 apparementc1340 apparelmentc1374 graithc1375 appurtenancec1386 geara1400 warnementa1400 stuff1406 parelling?a1440 farrements1440 stuffurec1440 skippeson1444 harnessa1450 parela1450 implements1454 reparel1466 ordinance1475 habiliments1483 ornation1483 muniments1485 outred1489 trinketc1525 garnishing1530 garniture1532 accoutrementsc1550 furniments1553 tackling1558 instrument1563 ordinara1578 appointment?1578 outreiking1584 supellectile1584 appoint1592 dighting1598 outreik1598 materialsa1600 apparate?c1600 attirail1611 coutrement1621 apparatusa1628 outrig1639 equipage1648 thing1662 equipment1717 paraphernalia1736 fixture1767 tack1777 outfit1787 fittinga1817 fixing1820 matériel1821 set-out1831 rigging1837 parapherna1876 clobber1890 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun] drink1042 liquor1340 bousea1350 cidera1382 dwale1393 sicera1400 barrelc1400 strong drinkc1405 watera1475 swig1548 tipple1581 amber1598 tickle-brain1598 malt pie1599 swill1602 spicket1615 lap1618 John Barleycornc1625 pottle1632 upsy Englisha1640 upsy Friese1648 tipplage1653 heartsease1668 fuddle1680 rosin1691 tea1693 suck1699 guzzlea1704 alcohol1742 the right stuff1748 intoxicant1757 lush1790 tear-brain1796 demon1799 rum1799 poison1805 fogram1808 swizzle1813 gatter1818 wine(s) and spirit(s)1819 mother's milkc1821 skink1823 alcoholics1832 jough1834 alky1844 waipiro1845 medicine1847 stimulant1848 booze1859 tiddly1859 neck oil1860 lotion1864 shrab1867 nose paint1880 fixing1882 wet1894 rabbit1895 shicker1900 jollop1920 mule1920 giggle-water1929 rookus juice1929 River Ouse1931 juice1932 lunatic soup1933 wallop1933 skimish1936 sauce1940 turps1945 grog1946 joy juice1960 1820–1 R. Flower Let. in R. G. Thwaites Early Western Trav. (1904) X. 126 ‘There wife,’ said he, ‘did you ever see such fixings?’ He felt the paper, looked in a mirror.., and gazed with amazement. 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie I. ii. 30 ‘Your fixen seem none of the best for such a calling.’ 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 228 White wheat and chicken fixings. 1840 Kentucky Rifle (Danville, Kentucky) 31 Oct. 110/2 Let every man that can play a fiddle or blow a horn, bring his fixins along and make music. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. ii. 46 Said my opposite neighbour, handing me a dish of potatoes..‘will you try some of these fixings?’ 1843 J. S. Robb Streaks Squatter Life 31 Throw yourself wide on the literary fixins and poetry, for the galls. 1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ii. 21 Delicious frog ‘fixings’. 1855 R. Browning Bishop Blougram in Men & Women II. 212 Neat ship-shape fixings and contrivances. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. i. 18 We don't make no charge for the ride an' all the other fixins. 1864 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 333 There is a setting of surroundings—as the Americans would say, of fixings—without which the reality is not itself. 1882 B. Harte Flip, & Found at Blazing Star 30 He's.. lost his rod and fixins. 1957 N.Z. Timber Jrnl. Mar. 52/1 Fixings, certain items like plugs, pallets, nogs and backings used to fix joinery. 1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves v. 40 She was undeniably an eyeful, being slim, svelte and bountifully equipped with golden hair and all the fixings. b. = fix n. 2. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 874/2. Compounds C1. fixing agent n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > fixative fixer1849 fixing agent1855 fixative1870 1855 T. F. Hardwich Man. Photogr. Chem. v. 52 The Iodide and Bromide of Potassium have both been employed as fixing agents. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. iv. 28 In determining the fixing agent to employ in silver printing. 1919 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. Almanac 248 The fixing agent is hypo. 1936 C. J. Wallis Pract. Biol. 6 Immerse the object in several times its own volume of the fixing agent. 1944 B. J. Orban Oral Histol. & Embryol. xvi. 326 The length of time necessary for a fixing agent to act upon a tissue varies. 1968 C. E. Engel Photogr. for Scientist v. 254 The fixing agent must not affect the silver of the developed image. fixing fluid n. ΚΠ 1927 H. E. Jordan Text-bk. Histol. (ed. 4) xx. 727 An excellent fixing fluid for general embryologic work. fixing process n. ΚΠ c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 141/2 The fixing process is intended to dissolve away that portion of the silver salt which has not been acted on by the light. fixing solution n. Photography. ΚΠ 1872 W. F. Stanley Photogr. 21 The quantity of fixing solution required will be in proportion to the number of prints to be fixed. C2. fixing-bath n. (a) Photography the bath in which a developed negative or positive is plunged in order to fix it; (b) Tanning (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > chemicals > [noun] > fixing agent fixing1853 hypo1855 preservative1862 fixing-bath1868 1868 M. C. Lea Man. Photogr. 35 The negative fixing-bath consists of a strong solution of hyposulphite of soda. 1885 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxxix. 601 [The tanner] prepares a new liquor termed the ‘fixing-bath’, consisting of water sufficient to cover the skins [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fixingadj. Etymology: < fix v. + -ing suffix².Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈfixing. That fixes. Often difficult to distinguish from the verbal noun used attributively: see fixing n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [adjective] > inveterate (of habits or attitudes) > rendering inveterate fixing1873 addictive1962 1651 J. French Art Distillation i. 10 By the adding of some fixing thing to it [any volatile body]. 1873 P. G. Hamerton Intellect. Life x. x. 387 The gradual fixing power of habit. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1605adj.1651
随便看	take one's heels take one's hook take one's inn take one's inns take one's journey take one's lair take one's leave take one's leave of take one's licence take one's life take one's lodge take one's lucky take one's maker take one's mansion take one's measure take one's measures take one's medicine take one's mind off take one's mind off from take one's mutton with take one's nap take one's own life take one's own sweet time take one's own time take one's own way

fixingn.

Compounds

fixingadj.