English Dictionary

fix

/ˈfɪks/

verb

(transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. / (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

I need to fix my car.

意味（1）

(transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

意味（2）

(transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, I told you it wouldn't work!

意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

意味（4）

(transitive, chess) 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.

意味（5）

(transitive) To mend, to repair.

That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

意味（6）

(transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).

She fixed dinner for the kids.

意味（7）

(transitive) 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.

意味（8）

(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

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

意味（9）

(transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.

意味（10）

(transitive, 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.

意味（11）

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

意味（12）

(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.

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

意味（13）

(intransitive) 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,

Accuſing ſome malignant Star, Not Britain, for that fateful War, Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear, Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.

意味（14）

(intransitive) 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