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flacourtia
  • n  often spiny trees or shrubs of tropical Asia and Africa
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fixer-upper
  • n  a house or other dwelling in need of repair (usually offered for sale at a low price)
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flack
  • n  a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer
  • n  intense adverse criticism
  • n  artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes
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flack catcher
  • n  a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer
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fixing
  • n  the act of putting something in working order again
  • n  restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
  • n  the sterilization of an animal
  • n  (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
  • v  restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
  • v  cause to be firmly attached
  • v  decide upon or fix definitely
  • v  prepare for eating by applying heat
  • v  take vengeance on or get even
  • v  set or place definitely
  • v  kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
  • v  make fixed, stable or stationary
  • v  make infertile
  • v  influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
  • v  put (something somewhere) firmly
  • v  make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
    I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
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fixing agent
  • n  a chemical compound that sets or fixes something (as a dye or a photographic image)
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fixings
  • n  food that is a component of a mixture in cooking
    the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad
  • n  the accessories that normally accompany (something or some activity)
    an elaborate formal dinner with all the fixings
  • n  the act of putting something in working order again
  • n  restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place
  • n  the sterilization of an animal
  • n  (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
  • v  restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
  • v  cause to be firmly attached
  • v  decide upon or fix definitely
  • v  prepare for eating by applying heat
  • v  take vengeance on or get even
  • v  set or place definitely
  • v  kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
  • v  make fixed, stable or stationary
  • v  make infertile
  • v  influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
  • v  put (something somewhere) firmly
  • v  make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
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fixity
  • n  the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
  • n  the quality of being incapable of mutation
    Darwin challenged the fixity of species
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fixture
  • n  an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)
  • n  a regular patron
    a bum who is a Central Park fixture
  • n  the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
  • n  the act of putting something in working order again
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