The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fix \Fix\, v. i.
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To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here.
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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.
--Bacon.To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.
Usage examples of "to fix on".
If anything after this could excite surprise, it would be that they have been able so far to throw dust in the eyes of our own citizens, as to fix on those who wish merely to recover self- government the charge of subserving one foreign influence, because they resist submission to another.
She was clearly more insulted by the demented grin I was trying now to fix on her than she was by Bloor's attempt to push her head down into his lap.
The foreign trace he had failed to interpret clearly worried him, and he began to stop more and more frequently in an attempt to fix on it.
She began to fix on it, waiting for that single click on top of the quieter ticking.