Fix
Fix (fiks) , adjective
[Old English, from Latin fixus, past participle of figere to fix; compare French fixe.]
Fixed; solidified. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Fix (fikst) , transitive verb
[Compare French fixer.]
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.
O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers
May also fix their reverence.
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
And fix far deeper in his head their stings.
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.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
3.
To transfix; to pierce. [Obsolete] — Sandys
4.
(Photography) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to 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. [Colloquial United States]
6.
(Iron Manufacturing) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
Fix , intransitive verb
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.
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
Collocations (1)
To fix on , to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.
Fix , noun
1.
A position of difficulty or embarrassment; predicament; dilemma. [Colloquial]
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.
2.
(Iron Manufacturing) fettling. [United States]