fix

• fixe (archaic)

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪks/

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• Rhymes: -ɪks

fix (plural fixes)

1. A repair or corrective action.
   • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:

     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.

   That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.

2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.

   It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!

3. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
   • Alain Jourgensen

     (Can we date this quote?) "Just one fix!"

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.
   • 1963, Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, page 160:

     As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.

5. A determination of location.

   We have a fix on your position.

6. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

• See also Thesaurus:difficult situation

• (repair or corrective action): bugfix, technofix

fix (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.

      He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"

2. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

   A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.

   A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.

   The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.

   1. (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

      She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.

   That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

4. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).

   She fixed dinner for the kids.

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[1]

   A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.

6. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

   Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

7. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
8. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

   He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.

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.

    Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Abney to this entry?)

11. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
    • 1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:

      Accuſing ſome malignant Star,
      Not Britain, for that fateful War,
      Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear,
      Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.

    • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

      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.

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.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

• (pierce): impale, run through, stick
• (hold in place): join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
• (mend; repair): patch, put to rights, rectify; see also Thesaurus:repair
• (make a contest unfair): doctor, rig
• (render infertile): neuter, spay, desex, castrate
• (settle or remain permanently): establish, settle down

• (to hold in place): move, change

From Proto-Tai *wɤjᴬ (“fire”). Cognate with Thai ไฟ (fai), Northern Thai ᨼᩱ (fai), Lao ໄຟ (fai), Lü ᦺᦝ (fay), Tai Dam ꪼꪡ, Shan ၽႆး (pháy) or ၾႆး (fáy), Tai Nüa ᥜᥭᥰ (fay²), Zhuang feiz, Saek วี๊.

• IPA^(key): /fi˧˩/

fix

1. fire

Borrowed from Latin fixus.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfiks/
• Rhymes: -iks

fix (feminine fixa, masculine plural fixos, feminine plural fixes)

1. fixed, not changing
2. stationary

• fixar

• “fix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfɪks]
• Rhymes: -ɪks

fix m

1. felt-tip pen, marker

• popisovač

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fix

1. first-person singular present indicative of fixen
2. imperative of fixen

• fixe

Borrowed from English fix.

• IPA^(key): /fiks/
• Homophone: fixe

fix m (plural fix)

1. fix

• IPA^(key): [fɪks]

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• Homophone: Ficks

fix (comparative fixer, superlative am fixesten)

1. fixed (costs, salary)
2. quick
3. smart

• (fixed): fest
• (quick): schnell
• (smart): aufgeweckt

• fix und fertig

From German fix, from French fixe, from Latin figere, fixus.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈfiks]

fix (not comparable)

1. fixed, steady

   Synonyms: rögzített, megszabott

   fix fizetés ― steady salary

2. immovable

   Synonym: szilárd

3. sure, certain

   Synonyms: biztos, bizonyos

   Az fix! ― You bet!

• fix objektív

fix

1. a steady salary

   Havi százezer forint fixe van. ― He has a monthly salary of 100,000 Ft.

• fils, fis, fiz

fix m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

• Homophone: ficks

fix

1. fixed, inflexible, rigid

   en fix idé

   a fixed idea

• fixstjärna

fix c

1. a fix, a dose of an addictive drug