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The Meaning of fix
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(a.) Fixed; solidified.
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(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
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(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
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(v. t.) To transfix; to pierce.
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(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
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(v. t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
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(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
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(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
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(v. i.) 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.
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(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
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(n.) fettling.
Synonyms
tidy sum
,
smother
,
peck
,
mint
,
crush
,
plenty
,
lot
,
location
,
locating
,
localisation
,
raft
,
quite a little
,
passel
,
hole
,
mare's nest
,
press
,
jam
,
pile
,
muckle
,
fixture
,
mend
,
golf hole
,
electronic jamming
,
good deal
,
maw
,
fixing
,
mending
,
sight
,
gob
,
trap
,
deal
,
pickle
,
flock
,
stack
,
kettle of fish
,
fuddle
,
wad
,
messiness
,
hatful
,
mickle
,
hollow
,
heap
,
great deal
,
mess
,
repair
,
clutter
,
mess hall
,
mass
,
jamming
,
batch
,
yap
,
mountain
,
welter
,
spate
,
mussiness
,
slew
,
localization
,
jumble
,
cakehole
,
muss
,
muddle
,
reparation
,
pot
,
darn
,
stamping ground
,
haunt
,
neutering
,
fastener
,
holdfast
,
fixedness
,
fixation
,
hangout
,
habitue
,
altering
,
amends
,
fastening
,
fastness
,
resort
,
secureness
,
regular
,
fixity
,
patch
,
localisation principle
,
placement
,
localisation of function
,
localization principle
,
position
,
emplacement
,
positioning
,
localization of function
,
touch
,
furbish up
,
cook
,
desexualise
,
sterilize
,
ready
,
concern
,
prepare
,
get
,
set up
,
compensate
,
revivify
,
remediate
,
recompense
,
secure
,
pertain
,
sterilise
,
gear up
,
impact
,
regenerate
,
vivify
,
amend
,
situate
,
have-to doe with
,
heal
,
make
,
fasten
,
determine
,
renovate
,
bushel
,
desexualize
,
reestablish
,
define
,
specify
,
rejuvenate
,
reconstruct
,
sophisticate
,
quicken
,
refer
,
desex
,
affect
,
unsex
,
fixate
,
restore
,
relate
,
rectify
,
touch on
,
recreate
,
deposit
,
remedy
,
pay back
,
doctor up
,
posit
,
bear on
,
bear upon
,
come to
,
animate
,
reanimate
,
limit
,
revive
,
restitute
,
set
,
pay off
,
reinstate
,
doctor
,
indemnify
,
batten down
,
stop up
,
insure
,
guarantee
,
procure
,
ensure
,
assure
,
tighten
,
plug
,
batten
,
specialise
,
particularise
,
localize
,
fructify
,
coiffure
,
delimitate
,
delimit
,
mold
,
peg down
,
put
,
regulate
,
do
,
condition
,
place
,
learn
,
countersink
,
arrange
,
make up one's mind
,
lay
,
plant
,
coif
,
dress
,
trammel
,
localise
,
ascertain
,
mark
,
circumscribe
,
go under
,
square up
,
check
,
correct
,
nail down
,
delineate
,
particularize
,
decide
,
find out
,
see
,
sic
,
square off
,
jell
,
restrict
,
destine
,
coiffe
,
find
,
throttle
,
pose
,
pin down
,
influence
,
typeset
,
rig
,
qualify
,
bound
,
narrow
,
set apart
,
narrow down
,
watch
,
go down
,
congeal
,
intend
,
assign
,
confine
,
stipulate
,
restrain
,
shape
,
settle
,
lay out
,
specialize
,
adjust
,
designate
,
wee-wee
,
take
,
hit
,
bring in
,
construct
,
draw
,
stool
,
have
,
lay down
,
piddle
,
hold
,
piss
,
constitute
,
fudge
,
reach
,
earn
,
stimulate
,
get to
,
shit
,
name
,
falsify
,
make water
,
progress to
,
create
,
crap
,
take a shit
,
pretend
,
gain
,
defecate
,
establish
,
pee
,
realize
,
train
,
make up
,
develop
,
give
,
attain
,
relieve oneself
,
pull in
,
wee
,
induce
,
form
,
spend a penny
,
fake
,
micturate
,
take in
,
machinate
,
organise
,
score
,
build
,
make believe
,
throw
,
pass water
,
arrive at
,
pee-pee
,
ca-ca
,
devise
,
misrepresent
,
puddle
,
take a crap
,
clear
,
produce
,
nominate
,
groom
,
educate
,
manipulate
,
organize
,
take a leak
,
cause
,
urinate
,
get up
,
wangle
,
work
,
realise
,
seduce
,
mystify
,
experience
,
become
,
sustain
,
receive
,
scram
,
amaze
,
sire
,
drive
,
engender
,
go
,
get under one's skin
,
stick
,
suffer
,
beat
,
pay
,
set about
,
get down
,
fuck off
,
incur
,
contract
,
bring forth
,
grow
,
dumbfound
,
stupefy
,
start
,
arrest
,
beget
,
liquidate
,
bring
,
bewilder
,
mother
,
buy off
,
father
,
buzz off
,
catch
,
let
,
obtain
,
redeem
,
puzzle
,
flummox
,
repay
,
generate
,
capture
,
baffle
,
start out
,
vex
,
aim
,
perplex
,
gravel
,
begin
,
fetch
,
reward
,
commence
,
arrive
,
set out
,
convey
,
acquire
,
come
,
bugger off
,
nonplus
,
settle on
,
put forward
,
bank
,
state
,
postulate
,
lodge
,
locate
,
wedge
,
submit
,
launch
,
entrap
,
effect
,
frame
,
install
,
raise
,
found
,
effectuate
,
put together
,
tack
,
pitch
,
assemble
,
piece
,
rear
,
put in
,
instal
,
order
,
ensnare
,
erect
,
put up
,
tack together
,
bind
,
compel
,
fetter
,
oblige
,
shackle
,
engage
,
tie
Antonyms
free
,
loose
,
set free
,
unbind
,
unfasten
,
unloose
,
untie
Rhymes
affix
,
bix
,
bricks
,
brix
,
chicks
,
chopsticks
,
clicks
,
cliques
,
conflicts
,
crucifix
,
cyrix
,
depicts
,
dickes
,
dicks
,
dix
,
flicks
,
fricks
,
frix
,
hicks
,
hix
,
inflicts
,
intermix
,
kicks
,
knicks
,
mix
,
nicks
,
nix
,
nyx
,
picks
,
pix
,
politics
,
predicts
,
pricks
,
ricks
,
six
,
slicks
,
sticks
,
styx
,
ticks
,
tics
,
tricks
,
vicks
,
wickes