Definition of Fix

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Definition of Fix

Fix

Fixed; solidified.

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

To transfix; to pierce.

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

To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

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

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.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

fettling.

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Fix Quotations

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
Wayne Dyer

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones.
Mitch Hedberg

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Wollstonecraft

There are a hell of a lot of jobs that are scarier than live comedy. Like standing in the operating room when a guy's heart stops, and you're the one who has to fix it!
Jon Stewart

Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Scott Adams

I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.
Muhammad Yunus

I had some things I had to fix. It took me 14 years to do it. But it was never really fun back in the day to work with directors who were a lot older and were like authoritarian and talking to you like that.
Mickey Rourke

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -"Fix it"- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.
Bill Parcells

Fix Translations

fix in Afrikaans is vasstel, vasmaak, bepaal, regmaak
fix in Dutch is nauwkeurig bepalen, determineren
fix in German is befestigen, fest
fix in Italian is fissare, fissare, fisso
fix in Latin is redintegro, condico
fix in Norwegian is feste, fiksere, avtale, ordne
fix in Portuguese is reparo
fix in Spanish is fijar, determinar, reparar, fija

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