Fix vs Manage - What's the difference?
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A repair or corrective action.
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, 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.
English contranyms
1000 English basic words
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To direct or be in charge of.
To handle or control (a situation, job).
To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).
* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:
To succeed at an attempt
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, title= To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.
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, title= To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.
(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.
The act of managing or controlling something.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.xii:
* Francis Bacon
* Shakespeare
(horseriding) .
As an abbreviation fix
is (clotting factor ix).As a verb manage is
to direct or be in charge of.As a noun manage is
the act of managing or controlling something.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 withReferences
manage
English
Verb
(manag)- It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.
- The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}
Letters: Say it as simply as possible, passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“
On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
- (Dryden)
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* manageable * managed care * managed code * managed house * management * manager * managerial * unmanageableNoun
(-)- the winged God himselfe / Came riding on a Lion rauenous, / Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe [...].
- Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.
- the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl