Definition of "fix" in Anglais

verb

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

2. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

   • A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
   • A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
   • The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.

3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.

   • That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
   • You can't fix stupid.

4. (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).

   • She fixed dinner for the kids.

5. (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.

6. (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.

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

   • The function f#58;#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#92;to#92;mathbb#123;R#125;#59;f(x)#58;#61;4x-3 fixes the point 1#92;in#92;mathbb#123;R#125;, since f(1)#61;4(1)-3#61;1.

8. (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.

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

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

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

11. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

12. (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.

13. (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug.

noun

1. A repair or corrective action.

   • That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.

2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.