fix vs join

fix

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

  • 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. 

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

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

join

verb
  • To accept, or engage in, as a contest. 

  • To unite in marriage. 

  • To produce an intersection of data in two or more database tables. 

  • To come into the company of. 

  • To come together; to meet. 

  • To become a member of. 

  • To connect or combine into one; to put together. 

  • To enter into association or alliance, to unite in a common purpose. 

noun
  • An intersection of data in two or more database tables. 

  • The act of joining something, such as a network. 

  • The lowest upper bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol ∨. 

  • An intersection of piping or wiring; an interconnect. 

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