Fix vs. Rectify
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A repair or corrective action.
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A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
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(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
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A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
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A determination of location.
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(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.
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(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
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To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
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(transitive) To mend, to repair.
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To prepare (food).
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(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
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To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
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To map a (point or subset) to itself.
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To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
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(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
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To convert into a stable or available form.
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(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
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(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.
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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.
Fixnoun
A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
Fixnoun
fettling.
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informal terms for a difficult situation;
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something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;
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the act of putting something in working order again
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an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;
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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;
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decide upon or fix definitely;
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prepare for eating by applying heat;
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take vengeance on or get even;
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set or place definitely;
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kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
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make fixed, stable or stationary;
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make infertile;
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put (something somewhere) firmly;
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make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;
Rectifyverb
To heal (an organ or part of the body).
Rectifyverb
(transitive) To restore (someone or something) to its proper condition; to straighten out, to set right.
Rectifyverb
(transitive) To remedy or fix (an undesirable state of affairs, situation etc.).
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To purify or refine (a substance) by distillation.
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(transitive) To correct or amend (a mistake, defect etc.).
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To correct (someone who is mistaken).
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To adjust (a globe or sundial) to prepare for the solution of a proposed problem.
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To convert (alternating current) into direct current.
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To determine the length of a curve included between two limits.
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(transitive) To produce (as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling bad wines or strong spirits (whisky, rum, etc.) with flavourings.
Rectifyverb
To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorders.
Rectifyverb
To refine or purify by repeated distillation or sublimation, by which the fine parts of a substance are separated from the grosser; as, to rectify spirit of wine.
Rectifyverb
To produce ( as factitious gin or brandy) by redistilling low wines or ardent spirits (whisky, rum, etc.), flavoring substances, etc., being added.
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math: determine the length of;
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reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities;
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bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one;
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set straight or right;
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make right or correct;
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convert into direct current;
Rectify
Rectify is an American television drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series from SundanceTV. It stars Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Smith-Cameron, Adelaide Clemens, Clayne Crawford, and Luke Kirby, and premiered on April 22, 2013, with a first season run of six episodes.A second season of ten episodes, premiered on June 19, 2014.
