verb Download 🔗Share To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. Examples : "The hunter, fixing the rabbit with his arrow, prepared to bring dinner home. " action weapon Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share 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." action technical work time Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To mend, to repair. Examples : "My dad is fixing the broken bicycle in the garage. " technical machine building utility industry work action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To prepare (food or drink). Examples : "She fixed dinner for the kids." food drink Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share 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 Examples : "A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent." politics government law moral business game sport society attitude Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. Examples : "Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him." animal medicine biology Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself. Examples : "The teacher is fixing x to equal 5 in this problem; from now on, x always represents 5 within this specific equation. " math computing technical logic Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share 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." law police moral action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. Examples : "The photographer carefully fixed the negative to prevent fading. " technology art chemistry science Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To convert into a stable or available form. Examples : "Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen." technical machine technology process utility industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Examples : "After years of traveling, she felt like fixing in her hometown and starting a family. " action process Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share 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 hot metal is slowly fixing as it cools, becoming solid enough to shape. " chemistry material substance physics Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The act of subverting (fixing) a vote. Examples : "The investigation revealed a wide-scale fixing of the election votes, leading to recounts in several districts. " politics government law action state Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc) Examples : "The box of fixings included screws, nails, and wall plugs, which we needed to hang the picture frame securely. " building technical item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share See fixings. Examples : "The furniture came flat-packed, so we had to buy the fixings separately. " item thing Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
