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WordNet 2.0 |
- a determination of the location of something |
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- an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear |
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- the act of putting something in working order again |
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- something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug |
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- informal terms for a difficult situation |
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- make infertile |
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- restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken |
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- make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc |
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- kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study |
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- make fixed, stable or stationary |
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- decide upon or fix definitely |
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- take vengeance on or get even |
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- cause to be firmly attached |
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- put (something somewhere) firmly |
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- set or place definitely |
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- prepare for eating by applying heat |
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
1. Fixed; solidified. [Obs.] Chaucer. |
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1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite. "An ass's nole I fixed on his head." -- Shak. "O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence." -- Herbert. "His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord." -- Ps. cxii. 7. "And fix far deeper in his head their stings." -- Milton. 2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. "Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite." -- Pope. "One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven." -- Young. 3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] Sandys. 4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. Abney. 5. 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. [Colloq. U.S.] 6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. Syn. -- To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle; determine. |
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1. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. "Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here." -- Waller. 2. 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. Bacon. To fix on |
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1. A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma. [Colloq.] "Is he not living, then? No. is he dead, then? No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix." -- De Quincey. 2. (Iron Manuf.) fettling. [U.S.] |
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