Repair vs. Fix

Repairnoun

The act of repairing something.

Repairnoun

The result of repairing something.

Repairnoun

The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.

Repairnoun

The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

Repairnoun

A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.

Repairverb

To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.

Repairverb

To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.

Repairverb

To transfer oneself to another place.

Repairverb

to pair again

Repairverb

To return.

Repairverb

To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.

Repairverb

To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.

Repairverb

To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.

Repairnoun

The act of repairing or resorting to a place.

Repairnoun

Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.

Repairnoun

Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.

Repairnoun

Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

Repairnoun

the act of putting something in working order again

Repairnoun

a formal way of referring to the condition of something;

Repairnoun

a frequently visited place

Repairverb

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

Repairverb

make amends for; pay compensation for;

Repairverb

move, travel, or proceed toward some place;

Repairverb

set straight or right;

Repairverb

give new life or energy to;

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;