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UNFIX

Definition: UNFIX

UNFIX

Transitive verb

1. To make fluid; to dissolve.

2. To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "UNFIX" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)


Crosswords: UNFIX

English words defined with "UNFIX": Unmortise. (references)

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Modern Usage: UNFIX

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Movie/TV Titles

Unfix (1996)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UNFIX

Language Translations for "UNFIX"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

shkëput (abstract, detach, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, dissociate, distract, disunite, extract, rip off, tear, tear off, tear up, uncouple, unhook, unstrap), e bëj të paqëndrueshëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏فك (break up, chap, detach, disassemble, disconnect, disengage, disentangle, disjoint, dismantle, dissociate, disunite, free, jaw, jaws, jowl, loose, loosening, mandible, release, separate, set free, take apart, take to pieces, undo, unfasten, untangle, untie, untying, unwind). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

размествам (change round, dislocate, interchange, jumble, permute, reverse, shuffle, transpose, unsettle), разбърквам (addle, agitate, clutter, derange, disarrange, disorder, jumble, litter, mess up, mix, mix up, muddle, puddle, rumple, scramble, tousle, trouble, tumble, unbalance, unsettle), откачам (declutch, get down, slip, uncouple, unfasten, unhang, unhook, unlink, unpeg, unyoke), отделям (abstract, cull, detach, discharge, disestablish, disjoin, dissever, disunite, educe, eject, eliminate, emit, estrange, evolve, excrete, exhale, extricate, exude, insulate, isolate, lay aside, part, prescind, pry, screen, seclude, secrete, segregate, separate, sequester, set apart, set off, sever, sort, spare, tear away, unjoin, unyoke). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不固定 (unfixed, unsettled). (various references)

   

Czech

  

uvolnit (disembody, disengage, dislodge, free, let loose, loose, relax, release, undo, unfreeze, unpin, unscrew, unstop, unstrap, untie, vacate, weaken). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

غیرثابت کردن , ازادکردن (Assert, Deliver, Ease, Extricate, Free, Liberate, Release, Uncage, Unfasten, Unhitch, Unloose, Unstring, Unwrap, Unyoke), رهاکردن (Abandon, Bolt, Disentangle, Dispossess, Drop, Extricate, Lax, Leave, Let, Liberate, Loose, Release, Surrender, Unbend, Uncork, Uncouple, Unfasten, Unfold, Unhand, Unhook, Unleash, Unloose, Unsling), بازکردن (Disclose, Disengage, Disentangle, Evolve, Solve, Splay, Unbend, Unbrace, Undo, Unfasten, Unfold, Unhinge, Unhitch, Unlock, Unpack, Untie, Untwist, Unwreathe). (various references)

   

French

  

enlever, détacher (unbind, uncouple, unfasten, unleash, unpin, unswathe, untie). (various references)

   

German

  

losmachen (cast off, disengage, free, groove, let off, loose, release, slip, take off, unfasten, unfurl, unhitch, unloose, unmoor, unstick, untie), abmachen (agree, agree on, arrange, settle, take down, take off, undo, untack). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαλαρώ (loosen, relax, ret, unbend, uncoil, unfasten), αποσπώ (abstract, break off, detach, distract, elicit, extort, extract, pluck, pry, pull, tease out, wean 1, wean 2, wrench, wrest, wring). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

leszerel (demobilize, disarm, discharge, disembody, dismantle, dismount, to cannibalize, to disarm, to disassemble, to dismantle, to dismount). (various references)

   

Italian

  

sciogliere (be dissolved, break up, crack, deatch, detach, disband, dissolve, loose, loosen, melt, release, render, resolve, set free, shake out, solve, thaw, unbend, unbind, unchain, undo, untie). (various references)

   

Manx

  

skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissipation, dissolution, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, leakage, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, run out, scatter, scattering, scramble, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfurl, unfurling). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ixunfay

   

Portuguese

  

soltar-se (unclasp), soltar (cob, discharge the battery, drop, extrication, free, give out, give over, heaven, let go, let me know, liberate, loose, loosener, open, release, relinquish, set free, set up, slacken, throw, unbend, unbind, unbrace, uncage, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unhand, unleash, unlink, unshackle, unstrap, untwine, utter), desarmar (defuse, disarm, disassemble, dismantle, unarm, unload, unrig, unship), afrouxar (ease, let up, loose, loosen, relax, slacken, unbend, unbrace, weaken), abalar (affect, concuss, convulse, depolarise, jar, jolterhead, move, scamper, shake, shock, stir, toss, unsettle). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

откреплять (unfasten). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

skinuti (decorticate, divest, do away, doff, get down, pull off, remove, shed, skim, strip, take down, take off, throw off, unhang, vail), oslabiti (become weak, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, go to the dogs, lose weight, relax, relieve, weaken), olabaviti (relax, set loose, slacken, unbrace, unloose). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

solucionar (crack, deatch, detach, release, remove, solve, sort out). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sökmek (cut loose, demount, detach, disassemble, disjoint, dismantle, dismount, knock down, Ravel, ravel out, read, rip, rip off, slit, spring, take down, tear down, undo, unpick, unravel, unrig, unstitch), çözmek (break, cipher out, compound, cut loose, decipher, defrost, detach, disengage, disentangle, figure out, loosen, puzzle out, read, reason, resolve, slack, slack up, solve, unbind, unbrace, unbuckle, uncoil, uncouple, undo, unfasten, ungird, unhitch, unlink, unloose, unpick, unravel, unriddle, unrope, unscramble, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, unwind, work out), çıkarmak (bare, belch, blank, bring out, bruit about, deduct, delete, derive, disconnect, dislocate, dislodge, dismantle, displace, divest, doff, draw off, draw out, drive out, drop, educe, eject, elicit, eliminate, emit, enact, enucleate, evolve, exclude, excogitate, excrete, exhale, exhaust, expel, expunge, extract, extricate, extrude, exude, foot, foot up, give forth, give off, haul up, hawk, issue, let out, make out, omit, order off, order out, oust, out, pay off, present, print out, provoke, publish, pull off, put off, put out, put up, reject, remove, rest, rout out, rout up, rule out, scratch, shoot out, slip off, spew forth, spew out, spew up, spit, start, stick out, strike, strike off, strike through, strip, strip off, subtract, take, take from, take off, take out, throw off, throw out, tide over, touch off, uncase, vent, void, vomit, winkle out, wipe out, wipe up, work out, wreak). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розладнувати (circumvent, counterwork, derange, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disturb, frustrate, overset, shatter, unhinge, unsettle), відкріпляти, відв'язуватися. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: UNFIX

Derivations

Words beginning with "UNFIX": unfixed, unfixes, unfixing, unfixt. (additional references)


Misspellings

"UNFIX" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ufi, unfy, unix. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: UNFIX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-i-n-u-x"

-2 letters: fin, fix, fun, nix.

-3 letters: if, in, nu, un, xi, xu.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-n-u-x"
 

+1 letter: influx, unfixt.

 

+2 letters: fluxing, fluxion, unfixed, unfixes.

 

+3 letters: fluxions, influxes, unfixing.

 

+4 letters: effluxion, fluxional, outfoxing, refluxing, suffixing.

 

+5 letters: effluxions, flummoxing, fluoxetine, foxhunting.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: UNFIX


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 4E 46 49 58

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    ..-.    ..    -..-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01001110 01000110 01001001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#70 &#73 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0046 0049 0058

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5548404358

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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