Fix vs Fin - What's the difference?
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A repair or corrective action.
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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.
(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.
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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.
(ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver.
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A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft.
A similar structure on the tail of a bomb, used to help keep it on course.
A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.
A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.
An extending part on a surface of a radiator, engine, heatsink, etc., used to facilitate cooling.
A sharp raised edge (generally in concrete) capable of damaging a roof membrane or vapor retarder.
(senseid)To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc.
To swim in the manner of a fish.
To provide (a motor vehicle etc) with fins.
As an abbreviation fix
is (clotting factor ix).As a noun fin is
finn.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)
Synonyms
* (make a contest unfair) doctor, rig * (render infertile) neuter, spay, desex, castrate * See alsoAntonyms
* (to hold in place) move, changeDerived terms
* affix, affixative, fixed * fixings, fixity, fixety * fix someone's wagon, fix someone up withfin
English
(wikipedia fin)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Synonyms
* (appendange of a fish) * (appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal) flipper (of mammals) * (aircraft component) * (of a bomb) vane * (hairstyle) Mohican * (device worn by divers) flipperDerived terms
* anal fin * caudal fin * dorsal fin * finning * paired fins * pectoral fin * pelvic fin * tail fin * unpaired finsVerb
- A neutrally buoyant diver does not need to fin to maintain depth.