Definition of "fix"

fix

/ˈfɪks/

verb
third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed
1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  1. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
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    She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.
    1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 111
2. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  1. (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
  2. (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
4. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
  Quotations
  She fixed Peter a slice of black bread and jam by cutting the hard crust petalwise around the edge, so the child could tear off convenient pieces.
  1945, Marianne Steiff Finton Meisel, Years Before the Flood, page 14
  I fixed us drinks—orange juice with some vodka I'd gotten on sale—and washed a few dishes to get my mind off Jess and the fact of his not texting back.
  2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, page 94
5. (transitive) 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.
6. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
7. (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
8. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
9. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
10. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
  Quotations
  it is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual
  1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography
11. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  Quotations
  Accuſing ſome malignant Star,Not Britain, for that fateful War,Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear,Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.
  1665, Edmund Waller, Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House
  A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,Flew there on restless wing,Seeking in vain one blossom, where to fix.
  1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […]
12. (intransitive) 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.
  Quotations
  quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
13. (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
  Quotations
  She doesn't have to worry about stool pigeons because every law in the Federal District knows that Lupita sells junk. She keeps outfits in glasses of alcohol so the junkies can fix in the joint and walk out clean.
  1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books
noun
plural fixes
1. A repair or corrective action.
  Quotations
  Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
  Quotations
  "How come you're in this fix?"
  1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13
3. (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
  Quotations
  And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.
  1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books
  Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.
  1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books
  Just one fix!
  1992, William Alain Jourgensen (lyrics and music), “Just One Fix”, in Psalm 69, performed by Ministry
4. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
  Quotations
  As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.
  1963, Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, page 160
5. A determination of location.
6. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

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