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Definition: Fix Up

Fix Up

Verb

1. 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 Up

Synonym: arrange (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Fix Up

Specialty definitions using "fix up": COMMENDATIONFixMendRepair. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fix Up

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Fix Up

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Books

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Image Slideshow: Fix Up

Computer Images:
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Sounds Captioned with "Fix Up".

PlayCaption
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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Use in Literature: Fix Up

TitleAuthorQuote

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

I could fix up a little place, hide away

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: Fix Up

Expression using "fix up": fix up on. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fix Up

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fix up car

34

322 fix up

5
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Modern Translation: Fix Up

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.

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Anagrams: Fix Up

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.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Sounds
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Anagrams
13. Bibliography


  

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