fix vs grease

fix

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

  • 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 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. 

grease

verb
  • To kill, murder. 

  • To cause to go easily; to facilitate. 

  • To affect (a horse) with grease, the disease. 

  • To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly. 

  • To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. 

  • To bribe. 

noun
  • Any oily or fatty matter. 

  • Shorn but not yet cleansed wool. 

  • bribe money. 

  • Inflammation of a horse's heels, also known as scratches or pastern dermatitis. 

  • Animal fat in a melted or soft state. 

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