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From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.

fix (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
    1. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
      He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
  2. (transitive) To 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.
    A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
    The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.
    1. (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
      She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
    2. (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.
  3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
    That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
    You can't fix stupid.
    Fix this for me.
    1. (hyperbolic, chiefly with would) To be immensely pleasurable to.
      Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
      Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.
  4. (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
    She fixed dinner for the kids.
    • 1945, Marianne Steiff Finton Meisel, Years Before the Flood, page 14:
      She fixed Peter a slice of black bread and jam by cutting the hard crust petalwise around the edge, so the child could tear off convenient pieces.
    • 2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 94:
      I fixed us drinks—orange juice with some vodka I'd gotten on sale—and washed a few dishes to get my mind off Jess and the fact of his not texting back.
  5. (transitive) To 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.[1]
    A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
  6. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
    Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
  7. (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself.
    The function f : R → R ; f ( x ) := 4 x − 3 {\displaystyle f:\mathbb {R} \to \mathbb {R} ;f(x):=4x-3} {\displaystyle f:\mathbb {R} \to \mathbb {R} ;f(x):=4x-3} fixes the point 1 ∈ R {\displaystyle 1\in \mathbb {R} } {\displaystyle 1\in \mathbb {R} }, since f ( 1 ) = 4 ( 1 ) − 3 = 1 {\displaystyle f(1)=4(1)-3=1} {\displaystyle f(1)=4(1)-3=1}.
  8. (transitive, informal) To 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. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
  10. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
    Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
  11. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  1. (intransitive) 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.
  1. (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.

to mend or repair

to attach; to affix; to hold in place

to prepare — see also prepare

to make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair

to make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants

to render an animal infertile

to map (a point or subset) to itself

fix (plural fixes)

  1. A repair or corrective action.
    Hyponyms: bugfix, technofix
    That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
    • 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:
      Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.
  2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
    It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
  3. (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected.
    • 1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:
      And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.
    • 1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:
      Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix.
    • 1992, William Alain Jourgensen, “Just One Fix”, in Psalm 69, performed by Ministry:
      Just one fix!
    1. (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
    2. (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill.
  4. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
    • 1963, Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, page 160:
      As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in.
  5. An understanding, grasp of something.
    • 1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9:
      Each character comes to us with her own particular fix on reality, shaped by a lifetime of experience and by the urgencies of the moment.
  6. A determination of location.
    We have a fix on your position.
  7. (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
  8. (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

an instance of fixing

  1. ^ Sutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]

From Proto-Tai *wɤjᴬ (“fire”). Cognate with Ahom 𑜇𑜩 (phay),Thai ไฟ (fai), Northern Thai ᨼᩱ (fai), Lao ໄຟ (fai), Lü ᦺᦝ (fay), Tai Dam ꪼꪡ, Shan ၽႆး (phái) or ၾႆး (fái), Tai Nüa ᥜᥭᥰ (fäy), Zhuang feiz, Saek วี๊.

fix

  1. fire

Borrowed from Latin fixus.

fix (feminine fixa, masculine plural fixos, feminine plural fixes)

  1. fixed, not changing
  2. stationary

From fixační tužka. First attested in the 20th century.[1]

fix m inan

  1. felt-tip pen, marker
    Synonym: popisovač
  1. ^ Rejzek, Jiří (2015), “fix”, in Český etymologický slovník [Czech Etymological Dictionary] (in Czech), 3rd (revised and expanded) edition, Praha: LEDA, →ISBN, page 189

Borrowed from English fix.

fix m (plural fixes, no diminutive)

  1. fix (single dose of a narcotic drug)
  2. (figurative) fix (something that satisfies a yearning or a craving)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fix

  1. inflection of fixen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

fix m (invariable)

  1. alternative spelling of fixe

Inherited from Middle High German fix, influenced by French fixe.

fix (strong nominative masculine singular fixer, comparative fixer, superlative am fixesten)

  1. fixed (costs, salary)
    Synonym: fest
    Zu den fixen Kosten zählen Gehälter und Mieten. ― Fixed costs include salaries and rental fees.
  2. fixed, constant, stationary
    Synonyms: feststehend, konstant, unverändert
    Dieser Berg ist ein fixer Punkt in der Landschaft. ― This mountain is a fixed point in the landscape.
  3. (Austria) fixed, permanent
    Synonyms: dauernd, fest, ständig
    Voraussetzung für eine fixe Anstellung ist ein fixer Wohnort. ― A fixed residence is a requirement for permanent employment.
  4. (Austria) definitely (non-gradable)
    Synonyms: definitiv, endgültig, sicher
    Wir treffen ihn fix am nächsten Wochenende. ― We will definitely meet him next weekend.
  5. (colloquial) quick
    Synonyms: geschwind, flink, schnell
    Der Schaden wurde fix behoben ― The damage has been repaired quickly.
  6. (colloquial) agile, nimble, skilled, smart
    Synonyms: geschickt, wendig, flink
    Sie ist ein fixes Mädel. ― She is a skilled girl.

From German fix, from French fixe, from Latin figere, fixus.[1]

fix (not comparable)

  1. fixed, steady
    Synonyms: rögzített, megszabott
    fix fizetés ― steady salary
  2. immovable
    Synonym: szilárd
  3. (informal) sure, certain
    Synonyms: biztos, bizonyos, tuti
    Az fix! ― You bet!

fix

  1. a steady salary
    Havi százezer forint fixe van. ― He has a monthly salary of 100,000 Ft.

  2. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

Middle High German fix

Hunsrik fix

Inherited from Middle High German fix.

fix (comparative fixer, superlative fixest)

  1. quick; fast

fix

  1. quickly

fix m (plural **fix)

  1. Wieseman spelling of Fisch

Borrowed from Old French fix, a learned borrowing from Latin fixus, from fīgō, from fīvō, from Proto-Italic *feigʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ-.

fix

  1. quick

fix

  1. quickly

fix m

  1. alternative form of fisċ

Strong _a_-stem:

Learned borrowing from Latin fixus, from fīgō, from fīvō, from Proto-Italic *feigʷō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ-.

fix m (oblique and nominative feminine singular fixe)

  1. fixed (not able to move)
  2. (alchemy) nonvolatile

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fix m

  1. inflection of fil:
    1. oblique plural
    2. nominative singular

Borrowed from French fixe, from Latin fixus.

fix m or n (feminine singular fixă, masculine plural ficși, feminine/neuter plural fixe)

  1. fixed

fix

  1. (informal) exactly
    Fix asta îmi trebuia acum!
    This is exactly what I needed to deal with now!
  2. (precisely) o'clock
    Ne întâlnim la ședință la 19 fix. Ne vedem acolo!
    We're meeting at the conference at exactly 19 o'clock. See you there!

fix

  1. fixed, inflexible, rigid
    en fix idé
    a fixed idea

Inflection of fix

Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular fix — —
neuter singular fixt — —
plural fixa — —
masculine plural2 fixe — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 fixe — —
all fixa — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

fix c

  1. a fix, a dose of an addictive drug