{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "fɪks" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fix.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/fix.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; English fitch), from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.", "submean": [ "(transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.\nHe fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, \"I told you it wouldn't work!\"\n1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 111:She sniffed, too, comprehendingly, and fixed her son with a relentless eye." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.\nA dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.\nA leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.\nThe Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.", "submean": [ "(transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.\nShe's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.", "(transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns." ] }, { "mean": "(transitive) To mend, to repair.\nThat heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.\nYou can't fix stupid." }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).\nShe fixed dinner for the kids.\n1945, Marianne Steiff Finton Meisel, Years Before the Flood (page 14)\nShe fixed Peter a slice of black bread and jam by cutting the hard crust petalwise around the edge, so the child could tear off convenient pieces.\n2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 94:I fixed us drinks—orange juice with some vodka I'd gotten on sale—and washed a few dishes to get my mind off Jess and the fact of his not texting back." }, { "mean": "(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.\nA majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent." }, { "mean": "(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.\nRover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him." }, { "mean": "(transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map a (point or subset) to itself." }, { "mean": "(transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.\nHe got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work." }, { "mean": "(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light." }, { "mean": "(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.\nLegumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.\n1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography\nit is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual" }, { "mean": "(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.\n1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:\nAccuſing ſome malignant Star,Not Britain, for that fateful War,Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear,Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.\n1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: or T N Longman and O Rees, , by Biggs and Cottle, , →OCLC:A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,Flew there on restless wing,Seeking in vain one blossom, where to fix." }, { "mean": "(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.\n1631, Francis , “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. , 3rd edition, London: William Rawley; rinted by J H for William Lee , →OCLC:quicksilver will fix, so asto endure the hammer" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A repair or corrective action.\nHyponyms: bugfix, technofix\n2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic .  Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become.   But the scandals kept coming, . A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.\nThat plumber's fix is much better than the first one's." }, { "mean": "A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.\nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation\n1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:\"How come you're in this fix?\"\nIt rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!" }, { "mean": "(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.\n1953, William S. Burroughs, Junkie:And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge.\n1992, William Alain Jourgensen (lyrics and music), “Just One Fix”, in Psalm 69, performed by Ministry:Just one fix!" }, { "mean": "A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.\n1963, Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, page 160:As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in." }, { "mean": "A determination of location.\nWe have a fix on your position." }, { "mean": "(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "fix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "" ] }, { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }