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fixed

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To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

Examples :

"The sharp pencil fixed the paper, piercing a small hole. "

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

Examples :

"A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board."

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To mend, to repair.

Examples :

"The leaky faucet needed to be fixed. "

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To prepare (food or drink).

Examples :

"She fixed dinner for the kids."

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Examples :

"A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."

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

Examples :

"Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."

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

Examples :

"The teacher fixed the students' incorrect answers to match the correct solutions on the worksheet. "

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

Examples :

"He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work."

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

Examples :

"The photographer fixed the negative to make the picture permanent. "

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To convert into a stable or available form.

Examples :

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

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

Examples :

"After weeks of traveling, the family finally fixed their home in a new town. "

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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.

Examples :

"The melted chocolate fixed in the pan, becoming solid and ready to be decorated. "

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

Examples :

"Every religion has its own fixed ideas."

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adjective

Examples :

"The bicycle's seat was fixed, so I could comfortably ride it. "

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Attached; affixed.

Examples :

"The picture was fixed to the wall with a small tack. "

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Chemically stable.

Examples :

"The scientist studied the fixed components of the soil sample. "

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Supplied with what one needs.

Examples :

"The school was fixed with enough computers for every student. "

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Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

Examples :

"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."

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Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

Examples :

"a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed"

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Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

Examples :

"The election for student council president was fixed; the results were pre-determined. "

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(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

Examples :

"The computer problem was fixed, so I could finally finish my homework. "

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Examples :

"The broken chair is now fixed and ready to use again. "

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