fix
修复,固定,修理,修整
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fixed or fixt [fikst], /fɪkst/, fix·ing.
- : to repair; mend.
- : to put in order or in good condition; adjust or arrange: She fixed her hair in a bun.
- : to make fast, firm, or stable.
- : to place definitely and more or less permanently: to fix a circus poster to a wall.
- : to settle definitely; determine: to fix a price.
- : to direct steadily: His eyes were fixed on the distant ship.
- : to attract and hold.
- : to make set or rigid.
- : to put into permanent form.
- : to put or place on a person.
- : to assign or refer to a definite place, time, etc.
- : to provide or supply with: How are you fixed for money?
- : Informal. to arrange or influence the outcome or action of, especially privately or dishonestly: to fix a jury; to fix a game.
- : to get; prepare: What time shall I fix supper?
- : Informal. to put in a condition or position to make no further trouble.
- : Informal. to get even with; get revenge upon: I'll fix him!
- : Informal. to castrate or spay.
- : Chemistry. to make stable in consistency or condition; reduce from fluidity or volatility to a more stable state.to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a useful compound, as a nitrate fertilizer.
- : Photography. to render permanent by removing light-sensitive silver halides.
- : Microscopy. to kill, make rigid, and preserve for microscopic study.
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fixed or fixt, fix·ing.
- : to become fixed.
- : to become set; assume a rigid or solid form.
- : to become stable or permanent.
- : to settle down.
- : Slang. to inject oneself with a narcotic.
- : Chiefly Southern U.S. to prepare; plan: I was just fixing to call you. We're fixing to go to Colorado this summer.
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- : Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
- : Informal. a repair, adjustment, or solution, usually of an immediate nature: Can you think of a fix for the problem?
- : Navigation. a charted position of a vessel or aircraft, determined by two or more bearings taken on landmarks, heavenly bod-ies, etc.the determining of the position of a ship, plane, etc., by mathematical, electronic, or other means: The navigator took a fix on the sun and steered the ship due north.
- : a clear determination: Can you get a fix on what he really means?
- : Slang. an injection of heroin or other narcotic.the narcotic or amount of narcotic injected.a compulsively sought dose or infusion of something: to need one's daily fix of soap operas on TV.
- : Slang. an underhand or illegal arrangement, especially one secured through bribery or influence.a contest, situation, etc., whose outcome is prearranged dishonestly.
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- : fix on / upon to decide on; determine: We won't be able to fix on a location for the banquet until we know the number of guests.
- : fix up, Informal. to arrange for: to fix up a date.to provide with; furnish.to repair; renew.to smooth over; solve: They weren't able to fix up their differences.
Phrases
- fix someone's wagon
- fix up
- get a fix
- get a fix on
- if it ain't broke don't fix it
- in a fix
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Those efforts take resources, but experts cautioned against seemingly easy fixes like requiring people to provide proof of residency or other documentation.
Maryland Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Hogan administration to make immediate and long-term fixes to the state’s “broken” unemployment system, which has been plagued with problems since the beginning of the pandemic.
I spoke with Kipp Godfrey, the general manager and overseer of tens of thousands of fixes at America’s premier technical gear-mending shop, Rainy Pass Repair, about how you can maximize your ski kit’s life and efficacy for seasons to come.
She also outlined several fixes that have been made in response to feedback.
New additions in the release notes include the ability to read smaller QR codes with the iPhone cameras, notifications to tell users "when the camera of your iPhone is unable to be verified as a new, genuine Apple camera," and a number of bug fixes.
Further, there are maintenance crews who have to fix those drones.
Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.
The bill, which passed Congress without opposition, is only a temporary fix and expires in 2015.
We need to “fix our schools,” even while recognizing that our efforts thus far are only works-in-progress.
And then it broke down, and the woman says, 'I'm sorry, but we have to fix the internet, so it's down for the rest of the flight.'
To fix on any one stage in such an evolution, detach it, affirm it, is to wrest a true scripture to its destruction.
Look till you fix them for the rest of your days well in memory, and then say what in the devil's name you could make of them.
First I had better fix the sequence of the munition cables, for upon them the whole attack has hung—or rather, hung fire.
"I'd have been in a pretty fix if he had finished my house, and I had tried to move my furniture into it," he muttered.
Meadow Mouse was too well acquainted with old Mr. Crow to get himself into any such fix as that.