Fix vs. Form — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fix and Form
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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Fix the out-of-date accounts.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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