"fix" Definition

Definitions for the word "fix" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. a.
Fixed; solidified.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. t.
To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. t.
To transfix; to pierce.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. i.
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
fettling.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v.
1 make firm or stable; fasten, secure. 2 decide, settle, specify (a price, date, etc.). 3 mend, repair. 4 implant in the mind. 5 a (foll. By on, upon) direct (the eyes etc.) Steadily, set. B attract and hold (the attention, eyes, etc.). C (foll. By with) single out with one''s look etc. 6 place definitely, establish. 7 determine the exact nature, position, etc., of; refer (a thing) to a definite place or time; identify, locate. 8 a make (the eyes, features, etc.) Rigid. B (of eyes, features, etc.) Become rigid. 9 us colloq. Prepare (food or drink). 10 congeal or become congealed. 11 colloq. Punish, kill, deal with (a person). 12 colloq. A bribe or threaten into supporting. B gain a fraudulent result of (a race etc.). 13 slang inject a narcotic. 14 make (a colour, photographic image, etc.) Fast or permanent. 15 (of a plant etc.) Assimilate (nitrogen or carbon dioxide). n. 1 colloq. Dilemma, predicament. 2 a finding one''s position by bearings etc. B position found in this way. 3 slang dose of an addictive drug. be fixed (usu. Foll. By for) colloq. Be situated (regarding) (how is he fixed for money?). Fix on (or upon) choose, decide on. Fix up 1 arrange, organize. 2 accommodate. 3 (often foll. By with) provide (a person) (fixed me up with a job). fixable adj. [latin figo fix-]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
a predicament, or dilemma; “an awful FIX,” a terrible position; “to FIX one’s flint for him,” _i.e._, to “settle his hash,” to “put a spoke in his wheel.”
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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