fix

verb18

1. •
   to make something that is broken or damaged work well again

   • That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
   • You can't fix stupid.
2. •
   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.
3. •
   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.
4. •
   To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

   • Accusing some malignant Star, Not Britain, for that fateful War, Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolv’d to fix for ever here. — 1665
5. •
   (figurative) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

   • She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
6. •
   To arrange (an event etc.).

   • Could you fix it for me to meet the band backstage?
7. •
   (informal) To prepare (food or drink).

   • She fixed dinner for the kids.
8. •
   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.

   • A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
9. •
   (US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

   • Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
10. •
    To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
11. •
    To convert into a stable or available form.

    • Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
12. •
    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.

    • quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer — 1627
13. •
    (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.
14. •
    (slang) To shoot up; to inject a drug.
15. •
    To map (a point or subset) to itself.
16. •
    To be immensely pleasurable to.

    • Some pizza rolls would fix me right now.
    • Getting tongued by a hot woman would fix me.
17. •
    (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

    • He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
18. •
    (no longer used) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

noun10

1. •
   A repair or corrective action.

   • That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
2. •
   A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

   • 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.

   • And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge. — 1953
4. •
   (slang, figurative) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving.
5. •
   A determination of location.

   • We have a fix on your position.
6. •
   A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

   • As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in. — 1963
7. •
   An understanding, grasp of something.

   • 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. — 1981
8. •
   (slang, figurative) A compulsive desire or thrill.
9. •
   A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
10. •
    (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of factor IX (clotting factor IX).