canter vs fix

canter

noun
  • One who cants or whines; a beggar. 

  • One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. 

  • A ride on a horse at such speed. 

  • A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals. 

verb
  • To move at such pace. 

  • To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. 

fix

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

  • fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace) 

  • 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 repair or corrective action. 

  • A determination of location. 

  • A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. 

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

  • 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 attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. 

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

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

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

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

  • To convert into a stable or available form. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • To mend, to repair. 

  • To prepare (food or drink). 

  • To map a (point or subset) to itself. 

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