fixings
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- 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
- Some of the fixings : a sun room overlooking Long Island Sound, ten-car garage, six-room gatehouse, terraced gardens, tennis court, oval swimming pool, five horse stalls .
- Jenny and her friends were careful to avoid high-fat, calorie-laden fare at the salad bar, but for those who don't exercise restraint, salad-bar fixings can become vegetarian junk .
- Whistler's mother seems like she just sat down after killing, plucking and roasting a turkey with all the fixings.