3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fix \Fix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fixed} (f[i^]kst); p. pr & vb
n. {Fixing}.] [Cf. F. fixer.]
1. To make firm, stable, or fast to set or place
permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to
implant; to secure; to make definite.
An ass's nole I fixed on his head. --Shak.
O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May
also fix their reverence. --Herbert.
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. --Ps.
cxii. 7.
And fix far deeper in his head their stings.
--Milton.
2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as
the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. --Pope.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
--Young.
3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] --Sandys.
4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating
with such applications as will make it insensible to the
action of light. --Abney.
5. 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 [Colloq. U.S.]
6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace)
with fettling.
Syn: To arrange; prepare; adjust place establish; settle;
determine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fixing \Fix"ing\ (f[i^]ks"[i^]ng), n.
1. The act or process of making fixed.
2. That which is fixed; a fixture.
3. pl Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings;
accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fixing
n 1: the act of putting something in working order again [syn: {repair},
{fix}, {mending}, {reparation}]
2: the sterilization of an animal [syn: {neutering}, {altering}]
3: (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue
sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations
they had in the living body [syn: {fixation}]
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