Crossword clues for fixing
fixing
- Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
- (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
- The sterilization of an animal
- The act of putting something in working order again
- Take vengeance on or get even
- Preparing
- Arranging fruit, receiving nothing in return
- Putting back together
- Making a repair
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fix \Fix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fixed (f[i^]kst); p. pr. & vb. n. Fixing.] [Cf. F. fixer.]
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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.
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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. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.]
--Sandys.(Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light.
--Abney.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.]
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(Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
Syn: To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle; determine.
Fixing \Fix"ing\ (f[i^]ks"[i^]ng), n.
The act or process of making fixed.
That which is fixed; a fixture.
pl. Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. [Colloq. U.S.]
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act of subverting a vote. 2 (label en UK usually plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (qualifier: screws, wall plugs, etc) n. 1 The act of subverting a vote. 2 (label en UK usually plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (qualifier: screws, wall plugs, etc) vb. 1 (present participle of fix English) 2 (label en southern US slang with infinitive) going; preparing; ready. (only used in fixing to English).
WordNet
n. the act of putting something in working order again [syn: repair, fix, fixture, mend, mending, reparation]
restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place [syn: fastener, fastening, holdfast]
the sterilization of an animal; "they took him to the vet for neutering" [syn: neutering, altering]
(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]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "fixing".
Court declared that: After a legislative body has fairly and fully investigated and acted, by fixing what it believes to be reasonable rates, the courts cannot step in and say its action shall be set aside because the courts, upon similar investigation, have come to a different conclusion as to the reasonableness of the rates fixed.
High Contracting Parties, before appealing to the Permanent Court of Arbitration, shall conclude a special Agreement defining clearly the matter in dispute and the scope of the powers of the Arbitrators, and fixing the periods for the formation of the Arbitral Tribunal and the several stages of the procedure.
My conversation with Asteria the night before came back to me, and as I glanced at her now she avoided my gaze, fixing her eyes on Mithradates alone.
Cassandra said, fixing Auger with an expressionless stare from within her aura of twinkling machines.
She failed by five, and was sentenced to a birthday birching which Maude herself applied whilst Alice was, still blind folded, undressed down to camisole and elegant black silk hose with purple rosette garters and tied with her arms in cross and her thighs widely yawned apart in the middle of the room, cords fixing to wrists and ankles being fixed at their other ends in turn to hooks set into the cellar wall.
Ford, Bonham, from his entrenched position there, supported by artillery, would stop the Yankee advance, thereby fixing it in place.
Ledare was fixing drinks for the adults and I was fixing enough pasta carbonara to feed a rugby team.
For instance, besides the fixing of the eye on a bright object, catalepsy may be produced by a sudden sound, as of a Chinese gong, a tom-tom or a whistle, the vibration of a tuningfork, or thunder.
Our abstract on fixing the vena cava during circulatory arrest was accepted.
Thirty thousand people are to be evacuated on foot and it is a question of fixing the route.
A thousand of these fish, which measured about two feet and a half in length, came up the river, and a large quantity were retained by fixing dams across the stream.
It was on the 2nd of April that Harding had employed himself in fixing the orientation of the island, or, in other words, the precise spot where the sun rose.
One of them prodded the fuel bladder with the barrel of his Kalashnikov, then began fixing his bayonet.
He was fixing a scene to indicate that Loon Kow had fought with the Mongol murderer and had finished the man who had stabbed him.
Since surgical groups in Terre Haute had begun fixing hernias through the laparoscope, her partners figured that they had better offer the procedure, too.