conquest vs fix

conquest

noun
  • An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle. 

  • Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. 

  • That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. 

  • A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags. 

  • A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections. 

verb
  • To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor. 

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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