fixed Definition

fix
verb fixed, fixing

1. To attach or place something firmly.

Example: fixed it to the wall
Example: fixed the blame on him
Thesaurus: secure, fasten, attach, install, bind, implant, embed, anchor.
2. To mend or repair something.

Example: fixed the brakes on the bike
Thesaurus: repair, mend, correct, restore.
3. To direct; to concentrate.

Example: fixed his eyes on her
4. To transfix someone.

Example: fixed him with a stare
5. To arrange or agree (a time, etc).

Example: Let's fix a meeting for Monday
6. To establish (the time of an occurrence).
7. colloq
To arrange (the result of a race, trial, etc) dishonestly.
Example: They fixed the verdict
Thesaurus: prearrange, preplan, set up, rig.
8. colloq
To bribe or threaten someone into agreement.
9. colloq
To thwart, punish or kill someone.
Thesaurus: get even with, pay back, get, even the score with.
10. photog.
To make (the image in a photograph) permanent by the use of chemicals which dissolve unexposed silver halides.
11. colloq
To prepare (a meal, etc).
Example: I'll fix breakfast
(N Amer)
12. To tidy something. See also fixed.

noun fixes

1. colloq
A situation which is difficult to escape from; a predicament.
Example: She got herself in a real fix
Thesaurus: difficulty, predicament, mess, plight, dilemma, quandary, scrape, jam, pickle (slang).
2a. slang
An act of injecting a narcotic drug, etc, usually by drug addicts;
2b. slang
The quantity injected or to be injected in this way
Example: Give us a fix!
Thesaurus: injection, dose, shot, hit (slang).
3. A calculation of the position of a ship, etc, by radar, etc.

Etymology: 15c: from Latin fixare.

Phrasal Verb: fix on something

To choose it; to single it out.

Phrasal Verb: fix something up

To arrange it (eg a meeting).To get a place ready for some purpose.To set it up, especially temporarily.

Phrasal Verb: fix someone up

With something to provide them with what is needed.
Example: She can fix you up with a flat

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fixed
adj

1. Fastened; immovable.
2. Unvarying; unchanging; set or established.

Example: fixed ideas
3. Said of a gaze or expression: steady; concentrated; rigid.
4. Said of a point: stationary.
5. Permanent.

Example: a fixed address

Derivative: fixedly
adverb

Derivative: fixedness
noun

Idiom: fixed for something

colloq
Supplied with, especially financially
Example: How are you fixed for cash?