The difference between Fix and Neuter

When used as nouns, fix means a repair or corrective action, whereas neuter means an organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden hydrangea.

When used as verbs, fix means to pierce, whereas neuter means to remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring.

Neuter is also adjective with the meaning: neutral.

check bellow for the other definitions of Fix and Neuter

  1. Fix as a noun:

    A repair or corrective action.

    Examples:

    "That plumber's fix is much better than the first one's."

  2. Fix as a noun:

    A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.

    Examples:

    "It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!"

  3. Fix as a noun (informal):

    A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.

  4. Fix as a noun:

    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. Fix as a noun:

    A determination of location.

    Examples:

    "We have a fix on your position."

  6. Fix as a noun (US):

    fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)

  1. Fix as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.

    Examples:

    "He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, "I told you it wouldn't work!"

  2. Fix as a verb (transitive):

    To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.

    Examples:

    "A dab of chewing gum will [[fix]] your note to the bulletin board."

    "A leech can [[fix]] itself to your skin without you feeling it."

    "The Constitution [[fix]]es the date when Congress must meet."

    "She's fixed on the idea of becoming a doctor."

  3. Fix as a verb (transitive):

    To mend, to repair.

    Examples:

    "That heater will start a fire if you don't fix it."

  4. Fix as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To prepare (food).

    Examples:

    "She fixed dinner for the kids."

  5. Fix as a verb (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

    Examples:

    "A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent."

  6. Fix as a verb (transitive, US, informal):

    To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.

    Examples:

    "Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him."

  7. Fix as a verb (transitive, mathematics, sematics):

    To map a (point or subset) to itself.

  8. Fix as a verb (transitive, informal):

    To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.

    Examples:

    "He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work."

  9. Fix as a verb (transitive):

    To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.

  10. Fix as a verb (transitive, chemistry, biology):

    To convert into a stable or available form.

    Examples:

    "Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen."

    "rfquotek Abney"

  11. Fix as a verb (intransitive):

    To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.

  12. Fix as a verb (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.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Francis Bacon"

  1. Neuter as an adjective (now, uncommon):

    Neutral; on neither side; neither one thing nor another.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: impartianeutral"

  2. Neuter as an adjective (grammar):

    Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.

    Examples:

    "a neuter noun"

    "the neuter definite article"

    "a neuter termination"

    "the neuter gender"

  3. Neuter as an adjective (grammar):

    Intransitive.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: intransitive"

    "a neuter verb"

  4. Neuter as an adjective (biology):

    Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.

  5. Neuter as an adjective (literary):

    Sexless, nonsexual.

  1. Neuter as a noun (biology):

    An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; especially, one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.

  2. Neuter as a noun:

    A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.

  3. Neuter as a noun (grammar):

    The neuter gender.

  4. Neuter as a noun (grammar):

    A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

  5. Neuter as a noun (grammar):

    An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.

  1. Neuter as a verb:

    To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly as applied to domestic animals.

  2. Neuter as a verb:

    To rid of sexuality.

  3. Neuter as a verb:

    To drastically reduce the effectiveness of something.

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