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fixed

/fɪkst/

verb

Meaning

  • To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

  • 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."

  • To mend, to repair.

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

  • To prepare (food or drink).

    "She fixed dinner for the kids."

  • 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

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

  • To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

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

  • (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.

  • 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."

  • To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

  • To convert into a stable or available form.

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

  • To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

  • 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.

Synonyms

join,
put together,
unite,
doctor,
rig,
patch,
put to rights,
rectify,
impale,
run through,
stick,
castrate,
desex,
neuter,
spay,
establish,
settle down

adjective

Meaning

  • Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

    "Every religion has its own fixed ideas."

  • Stationary.

  • Attached; affixed.

  • Chemically stable.

  • Supplied with what one needs.

    "She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements."

  • Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

    "In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972."

  • Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

    "a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed"

  • Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

  • (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

  • Repaired

Synonyms

immobile,
stable