fix

  • (noun): A repair or corrective action.
  • (noun): A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
  • (noun): A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
  • (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): A determination of location.
  • (noun): Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
  • (verb): To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  • (verb): To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  • (verb): To mend, to repair.
  • (verb): To prepare (food or drink).
  • (verb): 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): To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  • (verb): (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • (verb): To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • (verb): To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
  • (verb): To convert into a stable or available form.
  • (verb): To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • (verb): 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.
  • That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
  • It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
  • We have a fix on your position.
  • A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
  • That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.