Engross vs Fix - What's the difference?

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Engross is a related term of fix.

As a verb engross

is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

As an abbreviation fix is

(clotting factor ix).

engross

English

Verb

(es)

(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials

* De Quincey

laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail

(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:

Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.

To completely engage the attention of.

She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.

(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:

As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

* Spenser

waves engrossed with mud

* Shakespeare

not sleeping, to engross his idle body

(obsolete) To amass.

* Shakespeare

to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

Synonyms

* (to buy up the whole supply of) corner the market

Coordinate terms

* (to write out in large characters) longhand

References

fix

English

Alternative forms

* fixe (archaic)

Noun

(es)

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= 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.}}

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.

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

* (Alain Jourgensen)

"Just one fix !"

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.

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

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

# (by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

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

To attach; to affix; to hold in place.

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.

# (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

To mend, to repair.

That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.

(informal) To prepare (food).

She fixed dinner for the kids.

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.]

A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.

(transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

(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.

He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.

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.

Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.

(Abney)

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

* (rfdate) (Waller)

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.

(Francis Bacon)

Synonyms

* (make a contest unfair) doctor, rig * (render infertile) neuter, spay, desex, castrate * See also

Antonyms

* (to hold in place) move, change

Derived terms

* affix, affixative, fixed * fixings, fixity, fixety * fix someone's wagon, fix someone up with

References

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