fix – English noun declension

English noun forms of fix

Noun: fix
Singularfix
Pluralfixes

Sample Sentences

  • That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
  • 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. [2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:]
  • It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
  • "How come you're in this fix?" [1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 13:]
  • And Cash told me of cases where two hips take a fix together and then one pulls out his badge. [1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:]
  • Maybe I will find in yage what I was looking for in junk and weed and coke. Yage may be the final fix. [1953, William Lee [pseudonym; William S. Burroughs], Junkie, New York: Ace Books:]
  • Just one fix! [1992, William Alain Jourgensen, “Just One Fix”, in Psalm 69, performed by Ministry:]
  • As the professional thief notes: You can tell by the way the case is handled in court when the fix is in. [1963, Howard Saul Becker, Outsiders: studies in the sociology of deviance, page 160:]
  • Each character comes to us with her own particular fix on reality, shaped by a lifetime of experience and by the urgencies of the moment. [1981 December 1, Susan Saxe, “Survival with Agony and Art”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 9:]
  • We have a fix on your position.

Etymology

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig. See: Middle English Nouns 'fixen', Latin Nouns 'fīxus'.

Verbs referencing "fix"

Dutch Nouns fix.