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fixing
[ fik-sing ]
noun
- the act of a person or thing that fixes.
- fixings. Also fix·in's [] Informal.
- the necessary ingredients:
salad fixings.
- the appropriate accompaniments; trimmings:
turkey with all the fixings.
fixing
/ ˈfɪksɪŋ /
noun
- a means of attaching one thing to another, as a pipe to a wall, slate to a roof, etc
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Instead of spending their summer on devices, they’ll attend an outdoor camp, complete with the classic camp fixings like pools, sports, and arts and crafts.
Here, Wes Siler shows you his favorite method for cooking a whole chicken, and all the fixings, over an open fire.
Two years ago Whitehurst-Payne herself said Lincoln was dealing with problems that urgently needed fixing.
Nice kitchen appliances making cooking a breeze, and s’mores fixings come included.
The comparison reminded me of Georges Bataille’s idea that animals exist in the world like water in water, whereas humans are always trying to lift themselves out of life’s flux by objectifying, or fixing, the things that they are not.
The charges included corruption, perjury, bid-fixing and fraud.
His stories about his tenure in Washington hype his success in fixing housing problems in “inner cities.”
But Uber failed to take any steps in fixing their civil rights problem.
Both present alt cert in general—and TFA in particular—as a problem, as a project that urgently needs fixing.
Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder is fixing small businesses, one brilliant idea at a time.
Jos lifted himself on his elbow, and fixing his shining eyes on Ramona, said in Spanish, "My mother asks if you are travellers?"
They combine the fixing with the staining process, and stain differentially every normal and abnormal structure in the blood.
Fixing bayonets and leaving the sergeant dead in the doorway, they charged again into the mass of the enemy.
In a city lot courses and distances play a larger part in fixing the boundaries, and are more carefully defined.
Lastly, in fixing the loss the distinction between open and valued policies must be explained.
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