different between sixer vs fixer

English

Etymology

From six +? -er.

Noun

sixer (plural sixers)

1. A Cub Scout or Brownie who leads a group of six. Whence also Senior Sixer.
   • 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book

     Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.

2. (slang) A prison sentence of six months
   • 1869, A Merchant. Editor: Frank Henderson, Six Years in the Prisons of England

     The copper knew I did that job, and had me up on suspicion some time after, and gave me a drag (three months) over it. The next bit I did was a 'sixer' (six months), and I escaped from prison in about three weeks after I got it.

English

Etymology

fix +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

fixer (plural fixers)

1. Agent noun of fix; one who, or that which, fixes.
2. (photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.
   • 2003, Bruce Warren, Photography: The Concise Guide, Cengage Learning (?ISBN), page 69

3. A person who serves as an agent to arrange for a desired result, perhaps by improper means.
4. (criminal justice, law) A person who arranges immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion, especially as a business endeavor for profit.
5. (journalism) A person who assists foreign journalists in volatile countries, often providing interpretation, personal connections, and transportation services.
   • 2007, Myriam Salama-Carr, Translating and Interpreting Conflict, Rodopi (?ISBN), page 25

6. (real estate, US) A fixer-upper.

Related terms

• the fix is in

Translations

Anagrams

• refix, xerif

French

Etymology

From fixe +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fik.se/

Verb

fixer

1. to fix, fasten
2. to fix, arrange, set (a date, price etc.)
3. (reflexive) to settle (in a place)
4. (transitive) to stare at
   • 2000, Jean-François Parot, L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux, JC Lattès 2012, p. 11:

     Sur le banc, deux hommes, envelopés de capes dont les pans noirs étaient à demi éclairés par la lueur d'un méchant falot, fixaient l'obscurité.

Conjugation

Descendants

• ? Romanian: fixa

Further reading

• “fixer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Verb

fixer

1. first-person singular future subjunctive of facer
2. third-person singular future subjunctive of facer

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?f?ks?]

Adjective

fixer

1. comparative degree of fix

Adjective

fixer

1. inflection of fix:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norman

Etymology

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Verb

fixer

1. (Jersey, transitive) to stare at