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Fixing

noun

1.

The act of putting something in working order again. Synonyms: fix, fixture, mend, mending, repair, reparation.

2.

Restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place. Synonyms: fastener, fastening, holdfast.

3.

The sterilization of an animal. Synonyms: altering, neutering.

4.

(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body. Synonym: fixation.

Fix

verb

(past & past part. fixed; pres. part. fixing)

1.

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken. Synonyms: bushel, doctor, furbish up, mend, repair, restore, touch on. "Repair my shoes please"

2.

Cause to be firmly attached. Synonyms: fasten, secure. "She fixed her gaze on the man"

3.

Decide upon or fix definitely. Synonyms: define, determine, limit, set, specify. "Specify the parameters"

4.

Prepare for eating by applying heat. Synonyms: cook, make, prepare, ready. "Can you make me an omelette?" , "Fix breakfast for the guests, please"

5.

Take vengeance on or get even. Synonyms: get, pay back, pay off. "That'll fix him good!" , "This time I got him"

6.

Set or place definitely.

7.

Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study.

8.

Make fixed, stable or stationary. Synonym: fixate.

9.

Make infertile. Synonyms: desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex.

10.

Influence an event or its outcome by illegal means.

11.

Put (something somewhere) firmly. Synonyms: deposit, posit, situate. "Deposit the suitcase on the bench" , "Fix your eyes on this spot"

12.

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc. Synonyms: gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up. "Prepare for war" , "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"

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— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... and sighed. Painful reflections on the first events of her life were retraced in her mind; but in the evening she saw Oswald again, more her slave than ever; and all that remained in her mind of the conversation of Prince Castel-Forte was the desire of fixing Lord Nelville in Italy by making him enamoured of the beauties of every kind with which that country abounds. It was with this intention that she wrote to him the following letter. The freedom of the life which is led in Rome excused this proceeding, and Corinne in particular, though she might ...

— Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) - Or Italy • Mme de Stael

... Imogen then, fixing her eye on Iachimo, demanded no other boon than this: that Iachimo should be made to confess whence he had the ring he ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... is by the isosceles triangle. Make a right-angled triangle as above, with sides six, eight, and ten feet (A,B,C); then, after firmly fixing the right angle, cut down the eight-foot side to six feet and saw off the ten-foot side to fit. Place this with the side D B on the river bank in line with the sight object (X) across. Put three pegs to mark the three {66} corner places. Then ...

— Boy Scouts Handbook - The First Edition, 1911 • Boy Scouts of America

... on the point of laughing he at once opened his mouth, and laughed with enthusiasm. Probably he was a man of grateful heart who wished to repay his employers for the good treatment which he had received. Once, however, his features assumed a look of grimness as, fixing his eyes upon his vis-a-vis, the boys, he tapped sternly upon the table. This happened at a juncture when Themistocleus had bitten Alkid on the ear, and the said Alkid, with frowning eyes and open mouth, was preparing himself to sob in piteous fashion; until, recognising ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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