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fix

UK/fɪks/

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New Zealand/fəks/

fix verb: to pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

Verb

fix (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
    1. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
      • He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
      • She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 111
  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.
    1. (figuratively, passive, transitive, usually) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
      • She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
    2. (transitive) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
  3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
    • That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
    • You can't fix stupid.
    1. (excessive, transitive) To be immensely pleasurable to.
      • Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
      • Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.
  4. (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
    • She fixed dinner for the kids.
    • She fixed Peter a slice of black bread and jam by cutting the hard crust petalwise around the edge, so the child could tear off convenient pieces.1945, Marianne Steiff Finton Meisel, Years Before the Flood, page 14
  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.
    • A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
    Synonyms:
    doctor, rig
  6. (US, informal, transitive) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
    • Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
  7. (transitive) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
    • The function f#58;#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#92;to#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#59;f(x)#58;#61;4x-3 fixes the point 1#92;in#92;mathbb#123;R#125;, since f(1)#61;4(1)-3#61;1.
  8. (informal, transitive) 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) To convert into a stable or available form.
    • Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
    • it is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography
  11. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
    • Accuſing ſome malignant Star,
      Not Britain, for that fateful War,
      Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear,
      Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.1665, Edmund Waller, Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House
    • 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.1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and...
  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.
    • quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
  13. (intransitive, slang) To shoot up; to inject a drug.
    • She doesn't have to worry about stool pigeons because every law in the Federal District knows that Lupita sells junk. She keeps outfits in glasses of alcohol so the junkies can fix in the joint and walk out clean.1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books
  14. (transitive) To arrange (an event etc.).
    • Could you fix it for me to meet the band backstage?

Noun (1)

fix (plural fixes)

  1. A repair or corrective action.
    • That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
    • 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...2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21
  2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
    • It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
    • "How come you're in this fix?"1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13
  3. (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
    • And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books
    • Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books
    1. (broadly, figuratively, slang) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
    2. (broadly, figuratively, slang) A compulsive desire or thrill.
  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.
    • As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.1963, Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, page 160
  5. An understanding, grasp of something.
    • Each character comes to us with her own particular fix on reality, shaped by a lifetime of experience and by the urgencies of the moment.1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9
  6. A determination of location.
    • We have a fix on your position.
  7. A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
  8. (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).

Noun (2) capitalized: FIX

FIX (plural FIXs)

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of factor IX (clotting factor IX).

Proper noun capitalized: Fix

Fix (plural Fixes)

  1. A surname.

fix meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

fix in Hindi

ठीक करना

fix in Tamil

சரிசெய்ய, சரி செய்ய, சரிசெய்வதற்கு

fix in Urdu

ٹھیک کرنا, فکس کرنا

fix in Bengali

ঠিক করা
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fix in Telugu
సరిచేయడానికి
fix in Malayalam
ശരിയാക്കുക, ശരിയാക്കാൻ, ശരിയാക്കുവാൻ
fix in Kannada
ಸರಿಪಡಿಸಲು
fix in Punjabi
ਫਿੱਕਸ ਕਰਨਾ
fix in Odia
ଠିକ କରିବା
fix in Nepali
फिक्स गर्ने
fix in Arabic
صَلَّحَ ṣallaḥa, أَصْلَحَ ʔaṣlaḥa
fix in Persian
تعمیر کردن ta'mir kardan, درست کردن dorost kardan, تنگنا tangnâ, تعمیر ta'mir
fix in Thai
ซ่อม sɔ̂m, เตรียม dtriiam
fix in Vietnamese
sửa chữa, chuẩn bị

Examples of fix in a sentence

  • The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
  • I fixed us drinks—orange juice with some vodka I'd gotten on sale—and washed a few dishes to get my mind off Jess and the fact of his not texting back.2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 94:

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Synonyms of fix

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Antonyms

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Forms of fix

Verb
third-person singular presentfixes
present participlefixing
past participlefixt
pastfixt
past participlefixed
pastfixed
second-person singular present (archaic)fixest
second-person singular past (archaic)fixedst
third-person singular present (archaic)fixeth
alternative verb (archaic)fixe
Noun
pluralfixes
pluralFIXs
Proper noun
pluralFixes

Past tense of fix: fixt or fixed

Plural of fix: fixes

Origin of fix

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

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Questions about fix

What does fix mean?
Fix means to pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
What is fix in Hindi?
Fix in Hindi is ठीक करना. See Fix meaning in Hindi.
How do you use fix in a sentence?
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
What part of speech is fix?
Fix can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce fix?
Fix is pronounced /fɪks/ (UK).
What is the past tense of fix?
The past tense of fix is fixt.

Words near fix in the dictionary

  1. fiveways
  2. fiving
  3. fivish
  4. FIW
  5. Fiwaga
  6. fix
  7. fix it again Tony
  8. fix on
  9. fix room
  10. fix rooms
  11. fix someone's clock

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fix (page history and authors); FIX (page history and authors); Fix (page history and authors); fix (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fix (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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