Add vs Fix - What's the difference?
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To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally.
* (rfdate) (John Locke)
To combine elements of (something) into one quantity.
To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
* 1611 , King James Version, Genesis 30:24:
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost):
To append, as a statement; to say further.
* 1855 , (Thomas Babington Macaulay), The History of England from the Accession of James the Second , volume 3, page 37 [http://books.google.com/books?id=w_M9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA37&dq=added]:
* 1900 , , (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Chapter 23
To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase.
* 1611 , King James Version, 1 Kings 12:14:
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=72-3, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (mathematics) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition.
(video games) An additional enemy that joined the fight after the primary target.
(computer science) An act or instance of adding.
A repair or corrective action.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
, volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
* (Alain Jourgensen)
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.
(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
(obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
# (by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
To attach; to affix; to hold in place.
# (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
To mend, to repair.
(informal) To prepare (food).
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 extortionSutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.]
(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
(transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
(informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
(transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
* (rfdate) (Waller)
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.
As a noun add
is .As an abbreviation fix is
(clotting factor ix).add
English
Verb
(en verb)- as easily as he can add together the ideas of two days or two years.
- The LORD shall add to me another son.
- Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
- He added that he would willingly consent to the entire abolition of the tax
- "Bless your dear heart," she said, "I am sure I can tell you of a way to get back to Kansas." Then she added , "But, if I do, you must give me the Golden Cap."
- I will add to your yoke
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial.
Synonyms
* annex * coalesce * join * unite * mention, noteAntonyms
* (quantity) subtract * (matter) removeUsage notes
* We add by bringing things together so as to form a whole. * We join by putting one thing to another in close or continuous connection. * We annex by attaching some adjunct to a larger body. * We unite by bringing things together so that their parts adhere or intermingle. * Things coalesce by coming together or mingling so as to form one organization. * To add' quantities; to '''join''' houses; to '''annex''' territory; to '''unite''' kingdoms; to make parties ' coalesceDerived terms
* * addition * additive * add-on * add upNoun
(en noun)- After engaging the boss for one minute, two adds will arrive from the back and must be dealt with.
fix
English
Alternative forms
* fixe (archaic)Noun
(es)Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul. Instead it offers fixes and patches.}}
- "Just one fix !"
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
- 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.
- She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
- That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
- She fixed dinner for the kids.
- A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
- Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
- He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
- Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.
- (Abney)
- Your kindness banishes your fear, / Resolved to fix forever here.
- (Francis Bacon)