Definitions for fixed

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IPA: /fɪkst/

Fixed is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in fixed (defix).

Definitions for fixed

noun

1. Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
2. Informal. a repair, adjustment, or solution, usually of an immediate nature:
3. Navigation. a charted position of a vessel or aircraft, determined by two or more bearings taken on landmarks, heavenly bod-ies, etc. the determining of the position of a ship, plane, etc., by mathematical, electronic, or other means:
4. a clear determination:
5. Slang. an injection of heroin or other narcotic. the narcotic or amount of narcotic injected. a compulsively sought dose or infusion of something:
6. Slang. an underhand or illegal arrangement, especially one secured through bribery or influence. a contest, situation, etc., whose outcome is prearranged dishonestly.

Idioms

1. fix one's wagon, Informal. to exact retribution for an offense; treat someone vengefully:
2. in a fix, Older Slang. pregnant.

adjective

1. fastened, attached, or placed so as to be firm and not readily movable; firmly implanted; stationary; rigid.
2. rendered stable or permanent, as color.
3. set or intent upon something; steadily directed:
4. definitely and permanently placed:
5. not fluctuating or varying; definite:
6. supplied with or having enough of something necessary or wanted, as money.
7. coming each year on the same calendar date:
8. put in order.
9. Informal. arranged in advance privately or dishonestly:
10. Chemistry. (of an element) taken into a compound from its free state. nonvolatile, or not easily volatilized:
11. Mathematics. (of a point) mapped to itself by a given function. Compare Brouwer fixed-point theorem.

Verb phrases

1. fix on/upon, to decide on; determine:
2. fix up, Informal. to arrange for: to provide with; furnish. to repair; renew. to smooth over; solve:

verb (used with object)

1. to repair; mend.
2. to put in order or in good condition; adjust or arrrange:
3. to make fast, firm, or stable.
4. to place definitely and more or less permanently:
5. to settle definitely; determine:
6. to direct (the eyes, the attention, etc.) steadily:
7. to attract and hold (the eye, the attention, etc.).
8. to make set or rigid.
9. to put into permanent form.
10. to put or place (responsibility, blame, etc.) on a person.
11. to assign or refer to a definite place, time, etc.
12. to provide or supply with (something needed or wanted):
13. Informal. to arrange or influence the outcome or action of, especially privately or dishonestly:
14. to get (a meal); prepare (food):
15. Informal. to put in a condition or position to make no further trouble.
16. Informal. to get even with; get revenge upon:
17. Informal. to castrate or spay (an animal, especially a pet).
18. Chemistry. to make stable in consistency or condition; reduce from fluidity or volatility to a more stable state. to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a useful compound, as a nitrate fertilizer.
19. Photography. to render (an image) permanent by removing light-sensitive silver halides.
20. Microscopy. to kill, make rigid, and preserve for microscopic study.

verb (used without object)

1. to become fixed.
2. to become set; assume a rigid or solid form.
3. to become stable or permanent.
4. to settle down.
5. Slang. to inject oneself with a narcotic.
6. Chiefly Southern U.S. to prepare; plan (usually followed by an infinitive):

Origin of fixed

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at fix, -ed²

Examples for fixed

People on fixed incomes and government pensions are the first to feel the pain.

And this ideal of equality and individuality was fixed in the American mind.

She threw herself on the wide divan, and he fixed pillows under her head.

In 1870, the very Germanically-named August Ruengling fixed a harness for a circus rider and obtained free passes for his family.

Why, as I often say to myself, was such a man as this Solmes fixed upon?

Mrs. Van Geist fixed her niece with a sudden look of suspicion.

We have exacted from him what is at variance with the fixed Chinese policy of ages.

The teen refused to drop his knife, according to officers, fixed them with “a 100-yard stare,” and walked toward them.

Knowledge should be added to, daily, all the time, not fixed, he says.

One Air Force official said that with enough time and more money, the EOTS could be fixed.