fixes

1. (v) (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. 2. (v) (transitive) To mend, to repair. 3. (v) (ditransitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink). 4. (v) (transitive) 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 extortion. 5. (v) (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. 6. (n) A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament. 7. (v) (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. 8. (v) (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. 9. (v) (transitive, chess) To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns. 10. (v) (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. 11. (v) (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form. 12. (v) (transitive, mathematics, semantics) To map (a point or subset) to itself. 13. (n) A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid. 14. (n) (slang) A single dose of a narcotic drug, especially when injected. 15. (n) (figurative, by extension) Something that satisfies a yearning or a craving. 16. (n) (figurative, by extension) A compulsive desire or thrill. 17. (v) (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. 18. (v) (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. 19. (v) (slang, intransitive) To shoot; to inject a drug. 20. (v) (intransitive) 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. 21. (n) An understanding, grasp of something. 22. (n) A determination of location. 23. (n) (aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location. 24. (n) (US) Fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace) 25. (n) A repair or corrective action. 26. (v) (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. 27. (n) A surname. 28. (n) Abbreviation of factor IX (clotting factor IX). [Synonym of Christmas factor.]