fix- +

1. To place securely; to make stable or firm.
2. To secure to another; to attach.
3. To repair; to mend.
4. To put in order or in good condition; to adjust or to arrange.
5. To make firm or stable.
6. To place definitely and more or less permanently.
5. To settle definitely; to determine; such as, to fix a price.
6. To direct (the eyes, the attention, etc.) steadily: "His eyes were fixed on the 'blue moon' or the second full moon of the month."
7. To put or place (responsibility, blame, etc.) on a person.
8. To assign or to refer to a definite place, time, etc.
9. To provide or to supply with (something needed or wanted): "She was fixed with enough money for the trip."
10. Informal: to arrange or to influence the outcome or action of some action: especially, privately or dishonestly: "The coach was found guilty of trying to fix the game."
11. To get (a meal); to prepare (food): "She wanted to know what time to fix dinner."
12. Informal: to castrate or to spay (an animal; especially, a pet).
13. Etymology: fix ultimately comes from Latin figere, "fasten". Its past participle fixus made its way into English along two distinct routes, partly via the Old French adjective fix, "fixed" and partly via the medieval Latin verb fixare.

1. That which may be fixed, established, or rendered firm.
2. Capable of being made ready for service.

1. To pay attention to exclusively and obsessively.
2. To attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way.
3. To be totally obsessed or preoccupied with somebody or something.

1. The act or operation of holding, suturing, or fastening something in a fixed position.
2. The condition of being held in a fixed position.
3. An arrest of development at a particular stage, which like regression (return to an earlier stage), if temporary is a normal reaction to setbacks and difficulties; but if protracted or frequent, is a cause of developmental failures and emotional problems.
4. A close and suffocating attachment to another person, especially a childhood figure; such as, one's mother or father.
5. Stability; firmness; steadiness; a state of being established; such as, a fixation in matters of religion.

1. A varnish dissolved in alcohol and sprayed over pictures to prevent smudging.
2. A compound; such as, ethanol or formaldehyde which fixes tissues and cells for microscopic study.
3. Something that fixes, protects, or preserves; especially, a liquid preservative applied to artwork; such as, watercolor paintings or charcoal drawings.

1. In a fixed manner: "I noticed that he stared at me fixedly."
2. Firmly; in a settled or established manner; steadfastly.

1. The quality of being fixed and unchangeable.
2. The quality of being fixed in place.
3. Remaining in place.

1. Someone who intervenes with authorities for a person in trouble (usually using underhand or illegal methods for a fee).
2. A chemical compound that sets or fixes something; such as, a dye or a photographic image.
3. A synthetic narcotic drug similar to morphine but less habit-forming; used in narcotic detoxification and maintenance of heroin addiction.
4. A skilled worker whose job is to repair things.

1. The quality or state of being fixed and unchanging.
2. Something that is unchanging.
3. Something which is fixed or immovable.

1. Something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.; for example, a light fixture, kitchen fixtures, and electrical fixtures.
2. A person or thing which has been long established in the same place or position.
3. Any of various devices for holding work in a machine tool; especially, one for machining in a straight line, as in a planer or milling machine.
4. Various devices for holding parts in certain positions during welding, assembly, etc.
5. In law, a movable chattel, as a machine or heating plant, that, by reason of annexation to real property and adaptation to continuing use in connection with the realty, is considered a part of the realty.
6. In Britain, an event that takes place regularly.

1. To fix in the mind; to instill.
2. To fix, to fasten, or to drive in: "He infixed the fatal spear as the warrior attacked him."
2. To implant; such as, to infix a habit.
3. To instill (a fact, idea, etc.) in the mind or the memory; to impress.
4. In linguistics, to insert (a morphological element) into the body of a word.
5. To insert a linking element into the middle of a word; for example, in the word acidophilus, the letter "o" is an infix.

Words, or word parts, inserted into the middle of other words.

Would you agree that thermo; as in, hydrothermotherapy is an infix or would it be preferable to call it an intrafix?

Placing words, or word elements, within a compound word; for example, ichthyoacanthotoxin, audiospectograph, electrocardiophonogram, acrohypothermy, aerothermodynamics, etc.

A reference to an anther or other plant part; attached by the middle.

In general, an operation in which omentum is fastened to some other tissue, especially one in which the omentum is used as a circulatory bridge to reduce congestion or provide vascular nutrition.

The omentum is a sheet of fat that is covered by the peritoneum (a smooth transparent membrane that lines the abdomen and doubles back over the surfaces of the internal organs to form a continuous sac).

The greater omentum is attached to the bottom edge of the stomach, and hangs down in front of the intestines. Its other edge is attached to the transverse colon.

The lesser omentum is attached to the top edge of the stomach, and extends to the under surface of the liver.

Related word families intertwined with "to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach" word units: pon-; prosth-; stato-; the-, thes-.

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