Replace and Fix

verb

• Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected. )
  • usage: "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
• Take the place or move into the position of.
  • usage: "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
  • synonyms: supplant, supersede, supervene upon, supercede
• Put something back where it belongs.
  • usage: "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
  • synonyms: put back
• Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
  • usage: "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
  • synonyms: substitute, interchange, exchange

• (v.t.) To put in a new or different place.
• (v.t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition or the like.
• (v.t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
• (v.t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
• (v.t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

noun

• Informal terms for a difficult situation.
  • usage: "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage"
  • synonyms: hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish
• Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug.
  • usage: "she needed a fix of chocolate"
• The act of putting something in working order again.
  • synonyms: repair, fixing, fixture, mend, mending, reparation
• An exemption granted after influence (e. G., money) is brought to bear.
  • usage: "collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers"
• A determination of the place where something is.
  • usage: "he got a good fix on the target"
  • synonyms: localization, localisation, location, locating

verb

• Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken.
  • usage: "She repaired her TV set"; "Repair my shoes please"
  • synonyms: repair, mend, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
• Cause to be firmly attached.
  • usage: "fasten the lock onto the door"; "she fixed her gaze on the man"
  • synonyms: fasten, secure
• Decide upon or fix definitely.
  • usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
  • synonyms: specify, set, determine, define, limit
• Prepare for eating by applying heat.
  • usage: "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please"
  • synonyms: cook, ready, make, prepare
• Take vengeance on or get even.
  • usage: "We'll get them"; "That'll fix him good"; "This time I got him"
  • synonyms: pay back, pay off, get
• Set or place definitely.
  • usage: "Let's fix the date for the party"
• Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study.
• Make fixed, stable or stationary.
  • usage: "let's fix the picture to the frame"
  • synonyms: fixate
• Make infertile.
  • usage: "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized"
  • synonyms: sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise
• Influence an event or its outcome by illegal means.
  • usage: "fix a race"
• Put (something somewhere) firmly.
  • usage: "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot"
  • synonyms: situate, posit, deposit
• Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.
  • usage: "Get the children ready for school"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
  • synonyms: prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set

• (v.t.) To transfix; to pierce.
• (n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
• (v.i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
• (v.i.) 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.
• (v.t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
• (a.) Fixed; solidified.
• (v.t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
• (v.t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
• (v.t.) To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
• (n.) fettling.
• (v.t.) To make firm, stable or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.