Establish vs. Fix
Establishverb
(transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.
Establishverb
(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
Establishverb
(transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
Establishverb
(transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
Establishverb
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.
Establishverb
To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
Establishverb
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.
Establishverb
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.
Establishverb
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.
Establishverb
set up or found;
Establishverb
set up or lay the groundwork for;
Establishverb
establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;
Establishverb
institute, enact, or establish;
Establishverb
bring about;
Establishverb
place;
Establishverb
use as a basis for; found on;
Establishverb
build or establish something abstract;
Establishverb
set up on a firm or permanent basis
Establishverb
initiate or bring about (contact or communication)
Establishverb
achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for
Establishverb
introduce (a character, set, or location) into a film or play and allow its identification
Establishverb
show (something) to be true or certain by determining the facts
Establishverb
ensure that one's remaining cards in (a suit) will be winners (if not trumped) by playing off the high cards in that suit
Fixnoun
A repair or corrective action.
Fixnoun
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
Fixnoun
(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
Fixnoun
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
Fixnoun
A determination of location.
Fixnoun
(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
Fixverb
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
Fixverb
(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
Fixverb
(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
Fixverb
To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
Fixverb
(transitive) To mend, to repair.
Fixverb
To prepare (food).
Fixverb
(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
Fixverb
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
Fixverb
To map a (point or subset) to itself.
Fixverb
To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
Fixverb
(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
Fixverb
To convert into a stable or available form.
Fixverb
(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Fixverb
(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.
Fixadjective
Fixed; solidified.
Fixverb
To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
Fixverb
To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
Fixverb
To transfix; to pierce.
Fixverb
To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light.
Fixverb
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.
Fixverb
To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
Fixverb
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Fixverb
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.
Fixnoun
A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
Fixnoun
fettling.
Fixnoun
informal terms for a difficult situation;
Fixnoun
something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;
Fixnoun
the act of putting something in working order again
Fixnoun
an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;
Fixnoun
a determination of the location of something;
Fixverb
restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;
Fixverb
cause to be firmly attached;
Fixverb
decide upon or fix definitely;
Fixverb
prepare for eating by applying heat;
Fixverb
take vengeance on or get even;
Fixverb
set or place definitely;
Fixverb
kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
Fixverb
make fixed, stable or stationary;
Fixverb
make infertile;
Fixverb
put (something somewhere) firmly;
Fixverb
make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;
