fix

Meanings

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
To mend, to repair.
To prepare (food or drink).
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.
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
To map a (point or subset) to itself.
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.
To convert into a stable or available form.
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.

A repair or corrective action.
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
A determination of location.
fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fixe, from Latin fīxus ("immovable; steady; stable; fixed"), from fīgere, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- ("to jab; stick; set"). Related to dig.

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