Definitions from Wiktionary (FIX)
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
▸ verb: (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To mend, to repair.
▸ verb: (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
▸ verb: (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
▸ verb: (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
▸ verb: (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
▸ noun: A repair or corrective action.
▸ noun: A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
▸ noun: (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
▸ noun: (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
▸ noun: (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
▸ noun: A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
▸ noun: An understanding, grasp of something.
▸ noun: A determination of location.
▸ noun: (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
▸ noun: (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Abbreviation of factor IX. (clotting factor IX) [Synonym of Christmas factor]
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▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
▸ verb: (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
▸ verb: (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive) To mend, to repair.
▸ verb: (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
▸ verb: (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
▸ verb: (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
▸ verb: (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
▸ verb: (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.
▸ verb: (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.
▸ noun: A repair or corrective action.
▸ noun: A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
▸ noun: (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
▸ noun: (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
▸ noun: (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
▸ noun: A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
▸ noun: An understanding, grasp of something.
▸ noun: A determination of location.
▸ noun: (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
▸ noun: (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Abbreviation of factor IX. (clotting factor IX) [Synonym of Christmas factor]
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