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Definition: Fix Up |
Fix UpVerb1. Find (something or someone) for; "I'll fix you up with a nice girl". 2. Make arrangements for; "Can you arrange a meeting with the President?". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Fix UpSynonym: arrange (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fix Up |
| Specialty definitions using "fix up": COMMENDATION ♦ Fix ♦ Mend ♦ Repair. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You know, if we fix up this car, it could be make-out city, you know that (Grease; writing credit: Jim Jacobs; Warren Casey) I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty (Carnal Knowledge; writing credit: Jules Feiffer) | |
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| Hair dryer; hair blower; blower; blow; dryer; dry; fan; heat; primp; deck out; doll up; dress up; fix up; groom; gussy up; preen; prepare; prink; slick; smarten; spiff; spruce; titivate. | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I could fix up a little place, hide away |
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Expression using "fix up": fix up on. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fix up car | 34 |
322 fix up | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "fix up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | reлl (arrange, regulation, rule), reël (arrange, regulation, rule), beskik (arrange), beredder (arrange, liquidate, put in order, tidy), bedissel (arrange, fix, prepare). (various references) | |
Albanian | vë në rregull (arrange, methodize, place, sort out, Square), rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up, trim), pajis (accoutre, arm oneself, endow, endue, equip, fit, fit out, fit up, furnish, habilitate, indue, outfit, rig out, set, store, supply), ndreq (adjust, arrange, change, clear, correct, dispose, dress, make amends, mend, piece, rectify, redress, refit, reform, reinstate, remake, remedy, repair, revise, spruce up, Square, straighten, tidy up, touch up, tune up). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уреждам (acquit, arrange, atone, compose, deal, dispose of, ground, negotiate, organize, patch, patch up, pay, quit, regulate, set right, settle, sew up, tee up, work out, wrap, wrap up), възстановявам (furbish, get better, give back, make good, mend, re establish, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, recover, reedify, re-enact, regenerate, reinstate, renovate, repair, restore, revive, revivify), настанявам (accommodate, collocate, encamp, establish, induct, instal, install, place, put up, set, set up, settle, station), поправям (adjust, alter, amend, blue pencil, castigate, cobble, correct, do up, doctor, emend, fix, mend, polish, recast, recondition, rectify, redeem, redress, remedy, renovate, repair, retouch, retrieve, revamp, revise, service, true, vamp), подкупвам (bribe, buy, buy over, corrupt, disarm, get at, grease, hand out bribes, lubricate, suborn), подправям (adulterate, cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), инсталирам (fix, instal, install, put in). (various references) | |
Chinese | 布置 (arrange, decorate). (various references) | |
Czech | zařídit (arrange, equip, fit out, fix, furnish, get up, manage, organize, see to, settle, wangle). (various references) | |
Danish | ordne (arrange). (various references) | |
Dutch | terechtbrengen (arrange, put in order, tidy), regelen (arrange, organize, put in order, regularize, regulate, tidy), ordenen (arrange), arrangeren (arrange), aanrichten (activate, arrange, cause, give rise to). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aranĝi (arrange). (various references) | |
Faeroese | skipa fyri (arrange, command, dictate, order, put in order, tell, tidy). (various references) | |
Finnish | somistaa (adorn, decorate, trim), järjestää (adjust, arrange, fix, organize, put in order, settle, stage). (various references) | |
French | disposer, arranger (fix). (various references) | |
German | arrangieren (arrange, fix, stage, to contrive). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szervez (arrange, organize, to get up, to institute, to set up), rendez (arrange, order, organize, regularize, sort, to acquit, to adjust, to calendar, to compose, to get up, to make up, to marshal, to order, to range, to regularize), elhelyez (house, instal, install, locate, Lodge, place, quarter, set, settle, situate, space, Stow, to accommodate, to depose, to fix up, to install, to park, to place, to plant, to recess, to seat, to stow). (various references) | |
Icelandic | innrétta (arrange, install, put in order, tidy). (various references) | |
Italian | sistemare (accommodate, adjust, arrange, compromise, fix, place, position, put in order, settle, settle down, smooth over, sort), predisporre (arrange, arrange in advance, induce, plan, predispose). (various references) | |
Malay | atur ... mengatur (arrange). (various references) | |
Norwegian | innrede (arrange, install, put in order, tidy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ixfay upay.(various references) | |
Polish | urządzać (arrange), organizować (arrange). (various references) | |
Portuguese | arranjar (accomodate, achieve, acquire, adjust, arrange, calculate, catch, collate, curry, do, do up, dress, fare, figure out, filibeg, find, fix, get, lay, lay out, make, nib, obtain, order, organize, patch, pick, pick up, pitch, place, prepare, procure, put in order, remake, schedule, settle, size, square up, tidy, titivate, to arrange, trim). (various references) | |
Romanian | repara (cobble, darn, doctor, fix, make amends for, make good, mend, overhaul, piece, readjust, reclaim, rectify, redress, reduce, refit, renovate, repair, retrieve), pregãtire (efficiency, grounding, preparation, priming, provision, savvy, training), organizare (economy, establishment, form, frame, framing, method, organization, scheme, structure), aranja (adjust, arrange, clench, compose, compound, concert, conclude, contrive, dispose, do, do out, engineer, fiddle, fix, impose, juggle, Marshal, order, organize, pose, posture, put in order, put to rights, put up, set, set out, set to rights, settle, size, stage, Stow, straighten, suit, tidy, tidy up, trim), aplana (accommodate, adjust, arrange, compose, make up, patch up, settle, smooth, stay). (various references) | |
Russian | урегулировать (hammer down, regulation, settle), уладить (arrange, settle), организовывать (organize). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | urediti (arrange, do up, iron out, lay, organize, put in order, redact, settle, tidy up). (various references) | |
Spanish | arreglar (accommodate, arrange, assort, do, doctor, dress, fix, frame, lay out, line up, mend, order, patch up, posh up, put in order, quadrate, regularize, regulate, rig up, set right, settle, sew up, smarten, smarten up, smooth, smooth out, sort, sort out, Square, stage, tell off, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, tie up, trim up). (various references) | |
Swedish | fixa (do in, nobble, set up), fastställa (appoint, ascertain, decide, define, determine, establish, fix, sanction, settle, uphold), inreda (arrange, fit up, furnish, install, put in order, tidy), bestämma (appoint, assign, be determined, condition, decide, decree, define, designate, destine, determine, direct, fix, intend, judge, mean, modify, name, qualify, rule, set, settle, sway), arrangera (arrange, arrange for, do, institute, lay on, organize, stage). (various references) | |
Thai | แต่งตัวอย่างเป็นทางการหรือเต็มยศ, หาที่พักให้กับ, ซ่อมแซม (fix, fix over, knit up, repair), จั"เตรียม (arrange, hold, set), จั"การ (direct, do, fix, hack, meet, tee up). (various references) | |
Turkish | tertíp etmek (arrange), sağlamak (accommodate, accommodate smb. with, arm, assure, carry, cater, cater for, come in, derive, enlist, ensure, extract, fend for, find, fix, furnish, get out of, implement, keep, lay in, lay on, maintain, make, obtain, procure, provide, provide with, provision, purvey, secure, suck, supply, yield), kurmak (activate, base, build, build up, cog, conspire, constitute, construct, erect, establish, float, form, found, frame, ground, install, institute, lay, line up, organize, pitch, plant, promote, put, put together, ruminate, set, set up, start, strike up, time, weave, wind up), düzenlemek (arrange, calendar, collocate, compose, construct, coordinate, dispose, do, do out, draw, draw up, engineer, execute, forge, form, frame, get things square, get up, give, grade, lay out, line up, methodize, Mount, order, organize, promote, put up, regularize, regulate, scheme, set, set out, shape, stage, string, whack up, work up), ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, gear, justify, lay on, measure, proportion, regularize, regulate, reset, scale, set, Square, standardize, syntonize, time, tone, trim, tune). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | установити, улаштувати (organize), врегулювати. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-p-u-x" | |
-1 letter: pfui. | |
-2 letters: fix, piu, pix. | |
-3 letters: if, pi, up, xi, xu. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-p-u-x" | |
+3 letters: superfix. | |
+5 letters: superfixes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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