fix /fiks/

1. To make firm or fast
2. To establish
3. To drive in
4. To settle
5. To make or keep permanent, solid, rigid, steady or motionless
6. To fasten or attach
7. To put to rights or mend
8. To arrange or attend to (a matter, sometimes by means of trickery)
9. To prepare
10. To castrate or spay
11. To prevent from causing further trouble (informal)
12. To get even with (informal)
13. To chastise (informal)

1. To settle or remain permanently
2. To become firm, stable or permanent

1. A difficulty (informal)
2. A dilemma (informal)
3. The position of an aircraft, a ship, etc as calculated from instrument readings
4. The establishment of a position by any means
5. A shot of heroin or other drug (slang)
6. A dose or experience of anything seen as or felt to be addictive (informal)
7. Something fraudulently or covertly arranged (informal)
8. A solution, esp when expedient or temporary, as in quick fix (informal)

fixˈable adjective

Capable of being fixed

fixˈāte transitive verb

1. To fix or make stable
2. To direct (the eyes) on an object
3. To arrest the emotional development of (psychology)
4. To preoccupy

To become preoccupied

fixāˈted adjective

fixāˈtion noun

1. The act of fixing or state of being fixed
2. Steadiness, firmness
3. A state in which a body does not evaporate
4. Conversion of atmospheric nitrogen into a combined form
5. Emotional arrest of personality, instinctive forces maintaining their earlier channels of gratification
6. Loosely, an abnormal attachment or an obsession
7. The process whereby biological specimens are chemically preserved for examination

fixˈative noun (esp photography)

A fixing agent

fixˈature noun

A gummy preparation for fixing the hair

fixed adjective

1. Settled
2. Not apt to evaporate
3. Steadily directed
4. Fast, lasting, permanent
5. Not varying or subject to alteration
6. (with for) disposed (in terms of)
7. Used substantively for fixed stars (Milton)

fixˈedly adverb

fixˈedness noun

fixˈer noun

1. A fixing agent (photography)
2. A person who makes (often illegal) arrangements

fixˈing noun

1. The act or process of making fixed
2. Arrangement
3. The process of removing unreduced silver halides after development of an emulsion (image technol)
4. (in pl) adjuncts or trimmings
5. (in pl) equipment

fixˈity noun

Fixedness

fixˈive adjective

fixˈture noun

1. Fixing
2. A movable thing that has become fastened to land or to a house
3. A fixed article of furniture
4. A thing or person permanently established in a place
5. A fixed or appointed time or event, such as a horse-race

fixˈure noun (Shakespeare)

Stability, position or firmness

fixed air noun

The name given by Dr Joseph Black in 1756 to what in 1784 was named by Lavoisier carbonic acid

fixed assets plural noun (commerce)

Long-lived assets such as plant and buildings, brands, processes, patents and financial investments

fixed capital see under capital¹

fixed charges plural noun

Overheads such as interest payments, allowance for depreciation, and fixed costs, which do not vary with the volume of business done

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