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say it: FIK-sing
fixing is a noun meaning "the act of putting something in working order again". It is pronounced /ˈfɪksɪŋ/ — FIK-sing. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the act of putting something in working order again
the sterilization of an animal
“they took him to the vet for neutering”
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
histology
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 fixing 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.