Establish vs. Fix

(transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.

(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

(transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

(transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

Example: ‘So were the churches established in the faith.’; ‘The best established tempers can scarcely forbear being borne down.’; ‘Confidence which must precede union could be established only by consummate prudence and self-control.’;

To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

Example: ‘By the consent of all, we were establishedThe people's magistrates.’; ‘Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed.’;

To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; - said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.

Example: ‘He hath established it [the earth], he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited.’; ‘Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!’;

To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.

Example: ‘At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.’;

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; - used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

set up or found;

Example: ‘She set up a literacy program’;

set up or lay the groundwork for;

Example: ‘establish a new department’;

establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

Example: ‘The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound’; ‘The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture’;

institute, enact, or establish;

Example: ‘make laws’;

bring about;

Example: ‘The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth’;

place;

Example: ‘Her manager had set her up at the Ritz’;

use as a basis for; found on;

Example: ‘base a claim on some observation’;

build or establish something abstract;

Example: ‘build a reputation’;

set up on a firm or permanent basis

Example: ‘the scheme was established in 1975’;

initiate or bring about (contact or communication)

Example: ‘the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1992’;

achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for

Example: ‘he had established himself as a film star’; ‘the principle of the supremacy of national parliaments needs to be firmly established’;

introduce (a character, set, or location) into a film or play and allow its identification

Example: ‘establish the location with a wide shot’;

show (something) to be true or certain by determining the facts

Example: ‘the police established that the two passports were forgeries’;

ensure that one's remaining cards in (a suit) will be winners (if not trumped) by playing off the high cards in that suit

Example: ‘the right plan would be to establish dummy's diamonds’;

A repair or corrective action.

Example: ‘That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.’;

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

Example: ‘It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!’;

(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

A determination of location.

Example: ‘We have a fix on your position.’;

(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

Example: ‘He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"’;

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

Example: ‘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.’;

To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

Example: ‘She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.’;

(transitive) To mend, to repair.

Example: ‘That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.’;

To prepare (food).

Example: ‘She fixed dinner for the kids.’;

(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

Example: ‘A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.’;

To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

Example: ‘Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.’;

To map a (point or subset) to itself.

To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

Example: ‘He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.’;

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

To convert into a stable or available form.

Example: ‘Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.’;

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

(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.

Fixed; solidified.

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

Example: ‘An ass's nole I fixed on his head.’; ‘O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powersMay also fix their reverence.’; ‘His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.’; ‘And fix far deeper in his head their stings.’;

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

Example: ‘Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite.’; ‘One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.’;

To transfix; to pierce.

To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light.

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.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

Example: ‘Your kindness banishes your fear,Resolved to fix forever here.’;

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.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

Example: ‘Is he not living, then? No. is he dead, then? No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, - so that he is in an almighty fix.’;

fettling.

informal terms for a difficult situation;

Example: ‘he got into a terrible fix’; ‘he made a muddle of his marriage’;

something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;

Example: ‘she needed a fix of chocolate’;

the act of putting something in working order again

an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;

Example: ‘collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers’;

a determination of the location of something;

Example: ‘he got a good fix on the target’;

restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;

Example: ‘She repaired her TV set’; ‘Repair my shoes please’;

cause to be firmly attached;

Example: ‘fasten the lock onto the door’; ‘she fixed her gaze on the man’;

decide upon or fix definitely;

Example: ‘fix the variables’; ‘specify the parameters’;

prepare for eating by applying heat;

Example: ‘Cook me dinner, please’; ‘can you make me an omelette?’; ‘fix breakfast for the guests, please’;

take vengeance on or get even;

Example: ‘We'll get them!’; ‘That'll fix him good!’; ‘This time I got him’;

set or place definitely;

Example: ‘Let's fix the date for the party!’;

kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

make fixed, stable or stationary;

Example: ‘let's fix the picture to the frame’;

make infertile;

Example: ‘in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized’;

put (something somewhere) firmly;

Example: ‘She posited her hand on his shoulder’; ‘deposit the suitcase on the bench’; ‘fix your eyes on this spot’;

make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;

Example: ‘Get the children ready for school!’; ‘prepare for war’; ‘I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill’;