Establish vs. Fix — What's the Difference?

Set up on a firm or permanent basis

To correct or set right; adjust

Achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for

To restore to proper condition or working order; repair

Show (something) to be true or certain by determining the facts

To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare

Ensure that one's remaining cards in (a suit) will be winners (if not trumped) by playing off the high cards in that suit

To spay or castrate (an animal).

To cause (an institution, for example) to come into existence or begin operating; found; set up.

To influence the outcome or actions of (something) by improper or unlawful means

To bring about; generate or effect

(Informal) To take revenge upon (someone); get even with.

To place or settle in a secure position or condition

To place securely; make stable or firm

To cause to become regular or usual

To secure to another; attach

To cause to be able to grow or thrive

To put into a stable or unalterable form

To cause to be recognized and accepted

To make (a chemical substance) nonvolatile or solid.

To introduce and put (a law, for example) into force.

(Biology) To convert (nitrogen or carbon) into stable, biologically assimilable compounds.

To prove the validity or truth of

To kill and preserve (a specimen) intact for microscopic study.

To make a state institution of (a church).

To prevent discoloration of (a photographic image) by washing or coating with a chemical preservative.

(transitive) To make stable or firm; to confirm.

To direct steadily

(transitive) To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.

To capture or hold

(transitive) To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

To set or place definitely; establish

(transitive) To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.

To determine with accuracy; ascertain

To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.

To agree on; arrange

To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.

To assign; attribute

To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; - said of a colony, a state, or other institutions.

(Computers) To convert (data) from floating-point notation to fixed-point notation.

To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.

To direct one's efforts or attention; concentrate

To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; - used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.

To become stable or firm; harden

Set up or found;

Chiefly Southern US To be on the verge of; to be making preparations for. Used in progressive tenses with the infinitive

Set up or lay the groundwork for;

The act of adjusting, correcting, or repairing.

Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment;

(Informal) Something that repairs or restores; a solution

Institute, enact, or establish;

The position, as of a ship or aircraft, determined by visual observations with the aid of equipment.

Bring about;

A clear determination or understanding

Place;

An instance of arranging a special consideration, such as an exemption from a requirement, or an improper or illegal outcome, especially by means of bribery.

Use as a basis for; found on;

A difficult or embarrassing situation; a predicament

Build or establish something abstract;

(Slang) An amount or dose of something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic.

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.

To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns.

(transitive) To mend, to repair.

To prepare (food or drink).

(transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion.

To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

To map a (point or subset) to itself.

To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

To convert into a stable or available form.

(intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

(intransitive) 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.

A repair or corrective action.

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

(informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

A determination of location.

(US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

Fixed; solidified.

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.

To transfix; to pierce.

To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light.

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.

To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

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.

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

Fettling.

Informal terms for a difficult situation;

Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;

The act of putting something in working order again

An exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;

A determination of the location of something;

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;

Cause to be firmly attached;

Decide upon or fix definitely;

Prepare for eating by applying heat;

Take vengeance on or get even;

Set or place definitely;

Kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study

Make fixed, stable or stationary;

Make infertile;

Put (something somewhere) firmly;

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;