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say it: fiks
fix is a verb and noun meaning "restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken". It carries 17 recorded senses.
kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
cytology
make infertile
“in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized”
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
“Get the children ready for school!”
“prepare for war”
“I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill”
informal terms for a difficult situation
“he got into a terrible fix”
“he made a muddle of his marriage”
something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug
“she needed a fix of chocolate”
colloquialism
the act of putting something in working order again
an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear
“collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers”
a determination of the place where something is
“he got a good fix on the target”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fix come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.