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Fix can be a verb or a noun.

fix used as a verb:

  1. To mend, to repair.
    "That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it."
  2. To attach, to become attached; to affix.
    "A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board."
  3. To become acutely focused or obsessed.
    "She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor."
  4. To prepare.
    "She fixed dinner for the kids."
  5. To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins.
    "A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."
  6. To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion
  7. To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
    "Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."
  8. To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  9. To avenge, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
    "He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work."
  10. To purposefully stare at someone.
    "He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!""

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

fix used as a noun:

  1. A repair or corrective action.
    "That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's."
  2. A difficult situation; a quandry or dilemma.
    "It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!"
  3. A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
    ""Just one fix!" -Alain Jourgensen"
  4. A prearrangement of the outcome of a competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is fix?

As detailed above, 'fix' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
  2. Verb usage: A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
  3. Verb usage: A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
  4. Verb usage: She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.
  5. Verb usage: She fixed dinner for the kids.
  6. Verb usage: A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.
  7. Verb usage: Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.
  8. Verb usage: He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.
  9. Verb usage: He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"
  10. Noun usage: That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.
  11. Noun usage: It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!
  12. Noun usage: "Just one fix!" -Alain Jourgensen

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of fix are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of fix, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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