fixed
Because it is a word with a single syllable, fixed is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions offixed
- To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
Example: "A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board."
- To mend, to repair.
Example: "That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it."
- To prepare (food or drink).
Example: "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 extortion
Example: "A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."
- To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
Example: "Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."
- (sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
Example: "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.
- To convert into a stable or available form.
Example: "Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen."
- To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
- 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.
- Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Example: "Every religion has its own fixed ideas."
- Stationary.
- Attached; affixed.
- Chemically stable.
- Supplied with what one needs.
Example: "She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements."
- Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
Example: "In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972."
- Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
Example: "a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed"
- Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
- (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
- Repaired
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