different between fix vs predicate

English

Etymology

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin f?xus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from f?gere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eyg?- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks

Verb

fix (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
   1. (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
2. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
   1. (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

3. (transitive) To mend, to repair.

4. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
5. (transitive) 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

6. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

7. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
8. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

9. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
11. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.

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12. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
    • 1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:

      Accu?ing ?ome malignant Star,
      Not Britain, for that fateful War,
      Your kindne?s bani?hes your fear,
      Re?olv’d to fix for ever here.

    • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

      A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,
      Whose buzzing was the only sound of life,
      Flew there on restless wing,
      Seeking in vain one blossom, where to fix.

13. (intransitive) 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.

    • quicksilver will 'fix, so asto endure the hammer

Alternative forms

• fixe (archaic)

Synonyms

• (pierce): impale, run through, stick
• (hold in place): join, put together, unite; see also Thesaurus:join
• (mend; repair): patch, put to rights, rectify; see also Thesaurus:repair
• (make a contest unfair): doctor, rig
• (render infertile): neuter, spay, desex, castrate
• (settle or remain permanently): establish, settle down

Antonyms

• (to hold in place): move, change

Derived terms

• affix, affixative, fixed
• fixings, fixity, fixety
• fix someone's wagon, fix someone up with

Descendants

• ? Dutch: fixen, fiksen

Translations

Noun

fix (plural fixes)

1. A repair or corrective action.

   Hyponyms: bugfix, technofix

2. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation

3. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
4. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
5. A determination of location.

6. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

Descendants

• ? French: fixe, fix

Translations

References

Further reading

• fix on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Bouyei

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *w?j? (“fire”). Cognate with Thai ?? (fai), Northern Thai ?? (fai), Lao ?? (fai), Lü ?? (fay), Tai Dam ??, Shan ??? (pháy) or ??? (fáy), Tai Nüa ??? (fäy), Zhuang feiz, Saek ???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fi??/

Noun

fix

1. fire

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fixus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fiks/
• Rhymes: -iks

Adjective

fix (feminine fixa, masculine plural fixos, feminine plural fixes)

1. fixed, not changing
2. stationary

Derived terms

• fixar
• telefonia fixa

Further reading

• “fix” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?ks]
• Rhymes: -?ks

Noun

fix m

1. felt-tip pen, marker

Synonyms

• popisova?

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

fix

1. first-person singular present indicative of fixen
2. imperative of fixen

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiks/
• Homophone: fixe

Noun

fix m (plural fix)

1. Alternative spelling of fixe

German

Etymology

Latin f?xus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?ks]
• Homophone: Ficks

Adjective

fix (comparative fixer, superlative am fixesten)

1. fixed (costs, salary)

   Synonym: fest

2. quick

   Synonym: schnell

3. smart

   Synonym: aufgeweckt

Declension

Descendants

• ? Hungarian: fix

See also

• fix und fertig

Hungarian

Etymology

From German fix, from French fixe, from Latin figere, fixus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?fiks]
• Rhymes: -iks

Adjective

fix (not comparable)

1. fixed, steady

   Synonyms: rögzített, megszabott

2. immovable

   Synonym: szilárd

3. sure, certain

   Synonyms: biztos, bizonyos

Declension

Derived terms

(Compound words):

• fixpont

(Expressions):

• fix objektív

Noun

fix

1. a steady salary

Declension

References

Old French

Alternative forms

• fils, fis, fiz

Noun

fix m

1. inflection of fil:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Romanian

Etymology

From French fixe, from Latin fixus.

Adjective

fix m or n (feminine singular fix?, masculine plural fic?i, feminine and neuter plural fixe)

1. fixed

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

• Homophone: ficks

Adjective

fix

1. fixed, inflexible, rigid

   en fix idé

   a fixed idea

Declension

Related terms

• fixstjärna

Noun

fix c

1. a fix, a dose of an addictive drug

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• prædicate (archaic)

Etymology 1

From Middle French predicat (French prédicat), from post-classical Late Latin praedic?tum (“thing said of a subject”), a noun use of the neuter past participle of praedic? (“I proclaim”), as Etymology 2, below.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??d?k?t/

Noun

predicate (plural predicates)

1. (grammar) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

   • In the light of this observation, consider Number Agreement in a sentence like:
     (120)      They seem to me [_S — to be fools/^?a fool]
     Here, the Predicate Nominal fools agrees with the italicised NP they, in spite of the fact that (as we argued earlier) the two are contained in different Clauses at S-structure. How can this be? Under the NP MOVEMENT analysis of seem structures, sentences like (120) pose no problem; if we suppose that they originates in the — position as the subordinate Clause Subject, then we can say that the Predicate Nominal agrees with the underlying Subject of its Clause. How does they get from its underlying position as subordinate Clause Subject to its superficial position as main Clause Subject? By NP MOVEMENT, of course!

   • Thus, in (121) (a) persuade is clearly a three-place Predicate — that is, a Predicate which takes three Arguments: the first of these Arguments is the Subject NP John, the second is the Primary Object NP Mary, and the third is the Secondary Object S-bar [that she should resign]. By contrast, believe in (121) (b) is clearly a two-place Predicate (i.e. a Predicate which has two Arguments): its first Argument is the Subject NP John, and its second Argument is the Object S-bar [that Mary was innocent].

2. (logic) A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

3. (computing) An operator or function that returns either true or false.

Translations

Adjective

predicate (comparative more predicate, superlative most predicate)

1. (grammar) Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
2. Predicated, stated.
3. (law) Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.

Translations

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Latin praedic?tus, perfect passive participle of praedic? (“publish, declare, proclaim”), from prae + dic? (“proclaim, dedicate”), related to d?c? (“say, tell”). Doublet of preach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??d??ke?t/

Verb

predicate (third-person singular simple present predicates, present participle predicating, simple past and past participle predicated)

1. (transitive) To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
2. (transitive) To assume or suppose; to infer.
3. (transitive, originally US) to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
   • 1978, Michel Foucault, The Will to Knowledge, trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81):

     The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.

4. (transitive, grammar) To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
5. (transitive, logic) To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
   • 1911, Encyclopedia Britannica, Conceptualism

     This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).

Translations

Further reading

• predicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• predicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• predicate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'preciated

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /predi?t?sate/

Verb

predicate

1. adverbial present passive participle of predicar

Italian

Verb

predicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of predicare
2. second-person plural imperative of predicare
3. feminine plural past participle of predicare

Anagrams

• decrepita, decrepità, deprecati