fixed

B2
Pronunciation
/fɪkst/
Verb
12 definition(s)
1 Definition

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

2 Definition

To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

Example Sentences
  • A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
3 Definition

To mend, to repair.

Example Sentences
  • That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
4 Definition

To prepare (food or drink).

Example Sentences
  • She fixed dinner for the kids.
5 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
6 Definition

To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

Example Sentences
  • Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
7 Definition

(sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.

8 Definition

To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

Example Sentences
  • He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
9 Definition

To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

10 Definition

To convert into a stable or available form.

Example Sentences
  • Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
11 Definition

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

12 Definition

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.

Adjective
10 definition(s)
1 Definition

Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

Example Sentences
  • Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
2 Definition

Stationary.

3 Definition

Attached; affixed.

4 Definition

Chemically stable.

5 Definition

Supplied with what one needs.

Example Sentences
  • She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
6 Definition

Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

Example Sentences
  • 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.
7 Definition

Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

Example Sentences
  • a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
8 Definition

Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

9 Definition

(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

10 Definition

Repaired