fixing

/หˆfษชksษชล‹/

IPA: /F IH1 K S IH0 NG/

verb
  1. 1

    To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

  2. 2

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

    โ€œA dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.โ€

  3. 3

    To mend, to repair.

    โ€œThat heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.โ€

  4. 4

    To prepare (food or drink).

    โ€œShe fixed dinner for the kids.โ€

  5. 5

    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

    โ€œA majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.โ€

  6. 6

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

    โ€œRover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.โ€

  7. 7

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

  8. 8

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

    โ€œHe got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.โ€

  9. 9

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

  10. 10

    To convert into a stable or available form.

    โ€œLegumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.โ€

  11. 11

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

  12. 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.

noun
  1. 1

    The act of subverting (fixing) a vote.

  2. 2

    (usually in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc)

  3. 3

    See fixings.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fix, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fixing