fix

Meaning

Noun

1. A repair or corrective action.
2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
3. (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
4. (broadly, figuratively, slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
5. (broadly, figuratively, slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
6. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
7. An understanding, grasp of something.
8. A determination of location.
9. A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
10. (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
2. (broadly, obsolete, transitive) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
3. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
4. (figuratively, passive, transitive, usually) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
5. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
6. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
7. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
8. (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
9. (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.
10. (US, informal, transitive) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
11. (transitive) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
12. (informal, transitive) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
13. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
14. (transitive) To convert into a stable or available form.
15. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
16. (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.
17. (intransitive, slang) To shoot; to inject a drug.

Synonyms

repair

mend

fasten

set

attach

settle

determine

arrange

appoint

restore

secure

correct

establish

renovate

stick

decide

affix

prepare

make

adjust

make fast

define

place

direct

heal

join

patch

bind

mount

fix up

assign

specify

prescribe

difficulty

set up

amend

jam

limit

ready

refit

pin

predicament

stabilize

improve

fixing

order

take care of

remedy

fixate

plight

Translations

réparer

fixer

reparieren

arreglar

fijar

reparar

riparare

consertar

aggiustare

befestigen

repareren

arreglar

déterminer

fissare

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɪks/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fixen

In summary

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.