Fix vs Compose - What's the difference?

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Fix is a related term of compose.

As an abbreviation fix

is (clotting factor ix).

As a verb compose is

As a noun compose is

compound.

fix

English

Alternative forms

* fixe (archaic)

Noun

(es)

A repair or corrective action.

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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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compose

English

(Composition)

Verb

(compos)

To make something by merging parts.

The editor composed a historical journal from many individual letters.

Try to compose your thoughts.

* Bishop Sprat

Zeal ought to be composed of the highest degrees of all pious affection.

To make up the whole; to constitute.

A church is composed of its members.

* I. Watts

A few useful things compose their intellectual possessions.

(nonstandard) To comprise.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.

The orator composed his speech over the week prior.

Nine numbered symphonies, including the Fifth, were composed by Beethoven.

It's difficult to compose without absolute silence.

* Alexander Pope

Let me compose / Something in verse as well as prose.

* B. R. Haydon

the genius that composed such works as the "Standard" and "Last Supper"

(sometimes, reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.

The defendant couldn't compose herself and was found in contempt.

* Dryden

Compose thy mind; / Nor frauds are here contrived, nor force designed.

To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.

To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.

* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 280:

By trying his best to compose matters with the mullahs, he had sincerely shown that he did not seek a violent collision

To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.

* Dryden

In a peaceful grave my corpse compose .

* Milton

How in safety best we may / Compose our present evils.

(printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

Derived terms

* composer * composite * composing stick * composition * compositor * composure * decompose