fix

English

/ˈfɪks/

verb
Definitions
  • (transitive) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  • (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  • (transitive) To mend, to repair.
  • (transitive) To prepare (food or drink).
  • (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
  • (transitive) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  • (transitive) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • (transitive) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
  • (transitive) To convert into a stable or available form.
  • (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • (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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English fixen borrowed from Old French *fixer derived from Latin fīxus (immovable, steady, fixed, stable, fastened) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (stick, set up, set, jab, fix).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*dʰeygʷ-

Gloss

stick, set up, set, jab, fix

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