Fix vs House - 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.
(lb) Human habitation.
#(senseid) A structure serving as an abode of human beings.
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, title= #An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection.
#A building used by people for something other than a main residence (typically with qualifying word).
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#A public house, an inn, or the management of such.
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#(senseid) A place of public entertainment, especially (without qualifying word) a theatre; also the audience for a live theatrical or similar performance.
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#(lb) A place of business; a company or organisation.
#(lb) The building where a deliberative assembly meets; hence, the assembly itself, forming a component of a (national or state) legislature.
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#A printer's or publishing company.
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#A place of gambling; a casino.
#A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities.
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(lb) Extended senses.
#(lb) Somewhere something metaphorically resides; a place of rest or repose.
#*1598 , (Ben Jonson), (Every Man in His Humour)
#*:Like a pestilence, it doth infect / The houses of the brain.
#*1815 , (Walter Scott), (The Lord of the Isles)
#*:Such hate was his, when his last breath / Renounced the peaceful house of death .
#The people who live in the same house; a household.
#*(Bible), (w) x.2:
#*:one that feared God with all his house
#A dynasty, a familial descendance; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one.
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#(lb) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart.
#*1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p.313:
#*:Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.
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#(lb) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice.
#Lotto; bingo.
#(senseid) House music.
# An aggregate of characteristics of a house.
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# (lb) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
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To keep within a structure or container.
* Evelyn
To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour.
* Sir Philip Sidney
To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
* Shakespeare
(astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
* Dryden
To contain or cover mechanical parts.
(obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
(obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
(nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
Fix is a related term of house.
As an abbreviation fix
is (clotting factor ix).As a proper noun house is
(us) the house of representatives, "the house".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 withhouse
English
Noun
(houses)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
citation, passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house , and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
Synonyms
* (establishment) shop * (company or organisation) shopDerived terms
* acid house * alehouse * auction house * basket house * birdhouse * boathouse * bring the house down * chapter house * country house * doghouse * doll's house * dosshouse * frame house * flophouse * full house * get on like a house on fire * glasshouse * Greek house * greenhouse * grow house * guesthouse, guest house * house arrest * houseboat * housebreaker * housecoat * house detective * household * householder * housekeeper * housekeeping * house leader * house lights * housemaid * house music * house of worship * houseplant * house poor * house-train * house warming * housewife * house wine * housework * housy-housy * lighthouse * lower house * meetinghouse, meeting house * on the house * outhouse * play house * playhouse * poorhouse * prisonhouse * public house * publishing house * put one's house in order * royal house * safe house * shophouse * storehouse * tiny house, 50 m2. * town house * tribal house * upper house * warehouse * wartime house * whorehouse * wirehouseExternal links
* (house) * *Verb
(hous)- The car is housed in the garage.
- House your choicest carnations, or rather set them under a penthouse.
- Palladius wished him to house all the Helots.
- You shall not house with me.
- Where Saturn houses .
- (Shakespeare)
- (Sandys)
- to house the upper spars