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Fixed

verb
/fɪkst/
Word Frequency: 52.8

Definitions

1.verbTo pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
2.verbTo attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
"A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board."
3.verbTo mend, to repair.
"That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it."
4.verbTo prepare (food or drink).
"She fixed dinner for the kids."
5.verbTo 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
"A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."
6.verbTo surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
"Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."
7.verb(sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
8.verbTo take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
"He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work."
9.verbTo render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
10.verbTo convert into a stable or available form.
"Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen."
11.verbTo become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
12.verbTo 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.
13.adjectiveNot changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
"Every religion has its own fixed ideas."
14.adjectiveStationary.
15.adjectiveAttached; affixed.
16.adjectiveChemically stable.
17.adjectiveSupplied with what one needs.
"She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements."
18.adjectiveOf sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
"In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972."
19.adjectiveSurgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
"a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed"
20.adjectiveRigged; fraudulently prearranged.
21.adjective(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
22.adjectiveRepaired

Synonyms

joinput togetherunitedoctorrigpatchput to rightsrectifyimpalerun throughstickcastrate

Antonyms

changemovemobile

Rhymes With

affixedtransfixedmixednixedintermixedunmixedmixtebetwixt
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