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Fix vs. Form — What's the Difference?

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Fix

To correct or set right; adjust
Fix a misspelling.
Fix the out-of-date accounts.

Form

The shape and structure of an object
The form of a snowflake.

Fix

To restore to proper condition or working order; repair
Fix a broken machine.

Form

The body or outward appearance of a person or an animal; figure
In the fog we could see two forms standing on the bridge.

Fix

To make ready for a specific purpose, as by altering or combining elements; prepare
Fixed the room for the guests.
Fix lunch for the kids.
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Form

A model of the human figure or part of it used for displaying clothes.

Fix

To spay or castrate (an animal).

Form

A mold for the setting of concrete.

Fix

To influence the outcome or actions of (something) by improper or unlawful means
Fix a prizefight.
Fix a jury.

Form

The way in which a thing exists, acts, or manifests itself
An element usually found in the form of a gas.

Fix

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

Form

(Philosophy) The essential or ideal nature of something, especially as distinguished from its matter or material being.

Fix

To place securely; make stable or firm
Fixed the tent poles in the ground.

Form

A kind, type, or variety
A cat is a form of mammal.

Fix

To secure to another; attach
Fixing the notice to the board with tacks.

Form

(Botany) A subdivision of a variety usually differing in one trivial characteristic, such as flower color.

Fix

To put into a stable or unalterable form
Tried to fix the conversation in her memory.

Form

Method of arrangement or manner of coordinating elements in verbal or musical composition
Presented my ideas in outline form.
A treatise in the form of a dialogue.

Fix

To make (a chemical substance) nonvolatile or solid.

Form

A particular type or example of such arrangement
The essay is a literary form.

Fix

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

Form

Procedure as determined or governed by regulation or custom
Gave his consent solely as a matter of form.

Fix

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

Form

Manners or conduct as governed by etiquette, decorum, or custom
Arriving late to a wedding is considered bad form.

Fix

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

Form

A fixed order of words or procedures, as for use in a ceremony
"As they had never had a funeral aboard a ship, they began rehearsing the forms so as to be ready" (Arthur Conan Doyle).

Fix

To direct steadily
Fixed her eyes on the road ahead.

Form

A document with blanks for the insertion of details or information
Insurance forms.

Fix

To capture or hold
The man with the long beard fixed our attention.

Form

Performance considered with regard to acknowledged criteria
A musician at the top of her form.

Fix

To set or place definitely; establish
Fixed her residence in a coastal village.

Form

A pattern of behavior or performance
Remained true to form and showed up late.

Fix

To determine with accuracy; ascertain
Fixed the date of the ancient artifacts.

Form

Fitness, as of an athlete or animal, with regard to health or training
A dog in excellent form.

Fix

To agree on; arrange
Fix a time to meet.

Form

A racing form.

Fix

To assign; attribute
Fixing the blame.

Form

A grade in a British secondary school or in some American private schools
The sixth form.

Fix

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

Form

A linguistic form.

Fix

To direct one's efforts or attention; concentrate
We fixed on the immediate goal.

Form

The external aspect of words with regard to their inflections, pronunciation, or spelling.

Fix

To become stable or firm; harden
Fresh plaster will fix in a few hours.

Form

Chiefly British A long seat; a bench.

Fix

Chiefly Southern US To be on the verge of; to be making preparations for. Used in progressive tenses with the infinitive
We were fixing to leave without you.

Form

The lair or resting place of a hare.

Fix

The act of adjusting, correcting, or repairing.

Form

To give form to; shape
Form clay into figures.

Fix

(Informal) Something that repairs or restores; a solution
No easy fix for an intractable problem.

Form

To make or fashion by shaping
Form figures out of clay.

Fix

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

Form

To develop in the mind; conceive
Her reading led her to form a different opinion.

Fix

A clear determination or understanding
A briefing that gave us a fix on the current situation.

Form

To arrange oneself in
Holding out his arms, the cheerleader formed a T. The acrobats formed a pyramid.

Fix

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.

Form

To organize or arrange
The environmentalists formed their own party.

Fix

A difficult or embarrassing situation; a predicament
"If we get left on this wreck we are in a fix" (Mark Twain).

Form

To fashion, train, or develop by instruction, discipline, or precept
Formed the recruits into excellent soldiers.

Fix

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

Form

To come to have; develop or acquire
He formed the habit of walking to work.

Fix

To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.

Form

To enter into (a relationship)
They formed a friendship.

Fix

(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"

Form

To constitute or compose, especially out of separate elements
The bones that form the skeleton.

Fix

(transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
A dab of chewing gum will fix your note to the bulletin board.
A leech can fix itself to your skin without you feeling it.
The Constitution fixes the date when Congress must meet.

Form

To produce (a tense, for example) by inflection
Form the pluperfect.

Fix

To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor.

Form

To make (a word) by derivation or composition.

Fix

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.

Form

To become formed or shaped
Add enough milk so the dough forms easily into balls.

Fix

(transitive) To mend, to repair.
That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it.
You can't fix stupid.

Form

To come into being by taking form; arise
Clouds will form in the afternoon.

Fix

To prepare (food or drink).
She fixed dinner for the kids.

Form

To assume a specified form, shape, or pattern
The soldiers formed into a column.

Fix

(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.
A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.

Form

To do with shape.

Fix

To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.

Form

The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.

Fix

To map a (point or subset) to itself.

Form

A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.

Fix

To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.

Form

Regularity, beauty, or elegance.

Fix

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

Form

(philosophy) The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.

Fix

To convert into a stable or available form.
Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.

Form

Characteristics not involving atomic components. en

Fix

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

Form

(dated) A long bench with no back.

Fix

(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.

Form

(fine arts) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.

Fix

A repair or corrective action.
That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's.

Form

(crystallography) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Fix

A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!

Form

(social) To do with structure or procedure.

Fix

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

Form

An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.

Fix

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

Form

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.

Fix

A determination of location.
We have a fix on your position.

Form

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
A republican form of government

Fix

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

Form

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
A matter of mere form

Fix

Fixed; solidified.

Form

(archaic) A class or rank in society.

Fix

To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
An ass's nole I fixed on his head.
O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powersMay also fix their reverence.
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
And fix far deeper in his head their stings.

Form

(UK) A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).

Fix

To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.

Form

Level of performance.
The team's form has been poor this year.
The orchestra was on top form this evening.

Fix

To transfix; to pierce.

Form

A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).

Fix

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

Form

A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
To apply for the position, complete the application form.

Fix

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.

Form

A specimen document to be copied or imitated.

Fix

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

Form

(grammar) A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
Participial forms;
Verb forms

Fix

To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
Your kindness banishes your fear,Resolved to fix forever here.

Form

The den or home of a hare.

Fix

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.

Form

A window or dialogue box.

Fix

A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
Is he not living, then? No. is he dead, then? No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, - so that he is in an almighty fix.

Form

Essentials

Fix

Fettling.

Form

(taxonomy) An infraspecific rank.

Fix

Informal terms for a difficult situation;
He got into a terrible fix
He made a muddle of his marriage

Form

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

Fix

Something craved, especially an intravenous injection of a narcotic drug;
She needed a fix of chocolate

Form

(geometry) A quantic.

Fix

The act of putting something in working order again

Form

A specific way of performing a movement.

Fix

An exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear;
Collusion resulted in tax fixes for gamblers

Form

(transitive) To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
When you kids form a straight line I'll hand out the lollies.

Fix

A determination of the location of something;
He got a good fix on the target

Form

(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
Roll out the dough to form a thin sheet.

Fix

Restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken;
She repaired her TV set
Repair my shoes please

Form

(intransitive) To take shape.
When icicles start to form on the eaves you know the roads will be icy.

Fix

Cause to be firmly attached;
Fasten the lock onto the door
She fixed her gaze on the man

Form

To put together or bring into being; assemble.
The socialists did not have enough MPs to form a government.
Paul McCartney and John Lennon formed The Beatles in Liverpool in 1960.

Fix

Decide upon or fix definitely;
Fix the variables
Specify the parameters

Form

To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
By adding "-ness", you can form a noun from an adjective.

Fix

Prepare for eating by applying heat;
Cook me dinner, please
Can you make me an omelette?
Fix breakfast for the guests, please

Form

(transitive) To constitute, to compose, to make up.
Teenagers form the bulk of extreme traffic offenders.

Fix

Take vengeance on or get even;
We'll get them!
That'll fix him good!
This time I got him

Form

To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
Singing in a choir helps to form a child's sociality.

Fix

Set or place definitely;
Let's fix the date for the party!

Form

To provide (a hare) with a form.

Fix

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

Form

To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

Fix

Make fixed, stable or stationary;
Let's fix the picture to the frame

Form

The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
The form of his visage was changed.
And woven close close, both matter, form, and style.

Fix

Make infertile;
In some countries, people with genetically transmissible disbilites are sterilized

Form

Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.

Fix

Put (something somewhere) firmly;
She posited her hand on his shoulder
Deposit the suitcase on the bench
Fix your eyes on this spot

Form

Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
Those whom form of lawsCondemned to die.

Fix

Make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc;
Get the children ready for school!
Prepare for war
I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill

Form

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
Though well we may not pass upon his lifeWithout the form of justice.

Form

Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
The earth was without form and void.
He hath no form nor comeliness.

Form

A shape; an image; a phantom.

Form

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

Form

A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.

Form

The seat or bed of a hare.
As in a form sitteth a weary hare.

Form

The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.

Form

The boundary line of a material object. In (painting), more generally, the human body.

Form

The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.

Form

The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.

Form

That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; - called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.

Form

Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.

Form

The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.

Form

To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
God formed man of the dust of the ground.
The thought that labors in my forming brain.

Form

To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
'T is education forms the common mind.
Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind.

Form

To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; - said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority.

Form

To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.

Form

To treat (plates) so as to bring them to fit condition for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but now the plates or grids are coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.

Form

To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.

Form

To run to a form, as a hare.

Form

The phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something;
The inflected forms of a word can be represented by a stem and a list of inflections to be attached

Form

A category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality;
Sculpture is a form of art
What kinds of desserts are there?

Form

A perceptual structure;
The composition presents problems for students of musical form
A visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them

Form

Any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline);
He could barely make out their shapes through the smoke

Form

Alternative names for the body of a human being;
Leonardo studied the human body
He has a strong physique
The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak

Form

The spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance;
Geometry is the mathematical science of shape

Form

The visual appearance of something or someone;
The delicate cast of his features

Form

(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary;
The reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system

Form

A printed document with spaces in which to write;
He filled out his tax form

Form

(biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups;
A new strain of microorganisms

Form

An arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse;
The essay was in the form of a dialogue
He first sketches the plot in outline form

Form

A particular mode in which something is manifested;
His resentment took the form of extreme hostility

Form

A body of students who are taught together;
Early morning classes are always sleepy

Form

An ability to perform well;
He was at the top of his form
The team was off form last night

Form

A life-size dummy used to display clothes

Form

A mold for setting concrete;
They built elaborate forms for pouring the foundation

Form

To compose or represent:
This wall forms the background of the stage setting
The branches made a roof
This makes a fine introduction

Form

Create (as an entity);
Social groups form everywhere
They formed a company

Form

Develop into a distinctive entity;
Our plans began to take shape

Form

Give a shape or form to;
Shape the dough

Form

Make something, usually for a specific function;
She molded the riceballs carefully
Form cylinders from the dough
Shape a figure
Work the metal into a sword

Form

Establish or impress firmly in the mind;
We imprint our ideas onto our children

Form

Give shape to;
Form the clay into a head

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