A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
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.
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.
A procedural plan, usually but not necessarily tabular in nature, indicating a sequence of operations and the planned times at which those operations are to occur.
A written or printed table of information, often forming an annex or appendix to a statute or other regulatory instrument, or to a legal contract.
A serial record of items, systematically arranged.
One of the five divisions into which controlled drugs are classified, or the restrictions denoted by such classification.
An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
To add a name to the list of people who are participating in something.
To plan an activity at a specific date or time in the future.
To create a time-schedule.
To admit (a person) to hospital as an involuntary patient under a schedule of the applicable mental health law.