fix vs hole what difference
what is difference between fix and hole
English
Etymology
From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fixe (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgere (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks/
- Rhymes: -ɪks
Verb
fix (third-person singular simple present fixes, present participle fixing, simple past and past participle fixt or fixed)
- (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
- (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
- (transitive, by extension) (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
- (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive, figuratively, usually in the passive) To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate.
- (transitive) To mend, to repair.
- (transitive, informal) To prepare (food or drink).
- (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.
- (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
- (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
- (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
- (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
- (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
- 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography
- it is well to fix with sodium hyposulphite , and to wash as usual
- 1878, William de Wiveleslie Abney, A treatise on photography
- (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”:
- Accuſing ſome malignant Star,
Not Britain, for that fateful War,
Your kindneſs baniſhes your fear,
Reſolv’d to fix for ever here.
- Accuſing ſome malignant Star,
- 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.
- A cheerless place! the solitary Bee,
- 1665, Edmund Waller, “Upon Her Maiesties New Buildings at Somerset-House”:
- (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)
- A repair or corrective action.
- Hyponyms: bugfix, technofix
- A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
- (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
- A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.
- A determination of location.
- (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 *wɤjᴬ (“fire”). Cognate with Thai ไฟ (fai), Northern Thai ᨼᩱ (fai), Lao ໄຟ (fai), Lü ᦺᦝ (fay), Tai Dam ꪼꪡ, Shan ၽႆး (pháy) or ၾႆး (fáy), Tai Nüa ᥜᥭᥰ (fäy), Zhuang feiz, Saek วี๊.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fi˧˩/
Noun
fix
- fire
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fixus.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈfiks/
- Rhymes: -iks
Adjective
fix (feminine fixa, masculine plural fixos, feminine plural fixes)
- fixed, not changing
- 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): [ˈfɪks]
- Rhymes: -ɪks
Noun
fix m
- felt-tip pen, marker
Synonyms
- popisovač
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
fix
- first-person singular present indicative of fixen
- imperative of fixen
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fiks/
- Homophone: fixe
Noun
fix m (plural fix)
- Alternative spelling of fixe
German
Etymology
Latin fīxus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fɪks]
- Homophone: Ficks
Adjective
fix (comparative fixer, superlative am fixesten)
- fixed (costs, salary)
- Synonym: fest
- quick
- Synonym: schnell
- 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): [ˈfiks]
- Rhymes: -iks
Adjective
fix (not comparable)
- fixed, steady
- Synonyms: rögzített, megszabott
- immovable
- Synonym: szilárd
- sure, certain
- Synonyms: biztos, bizonyos
Declension
Derived terms
(Compound words):
- fixpont
(Expressions):
- fix objektív
Noun
fix
- a steady salary
Declension
References
Old French
Alternative forms
- fils, fis, fiz
Noun
fix m
- inflection of fil:
- oblique plural
- nominative singular
Romanian
Etymology
From French fixe, from Latin fixus.
Adjective
fix m or n (feminine singular fixă, masculine plural ficși, feminine and neuter plural fixe)
- fixed
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
- Homophone: ficks
Adjective
fix
- fixed, inflexible, rigid
- en fix idé
- a fixed idea
- en fix idé
Declension
Related terms
- fixstjärna
Noun
fix c
- a fix, a dose of an addictive drug
Declension
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊl/, [həʊɫ], [hɒʊɫ]
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- (US) IPA(key): /hoʊl/, [hoʊɫ]
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: whole
Etymology 1
From Middle English hole, hol, from Old English hol (“orifice, hollow place, cavity”), from Proto-West Germanic *hol, from Proto-Germanic *hulą (“hollow space, cavity”), noun derivative of Proto-Germanic *hulaz (“hollow”). Related to hollow.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure.
- The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid.
- 1840, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva:
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
Light horrors thro’ her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: […]
- […] her palfrey’s footfall shot
- An opening in a solid.
- (heading) In games.
- (golf) A subsurface standard-size hole, also called cup, hitting the ball into which is the object of play. Each hole, of which there are usually eighteen as the standard on a full course, is located on a prepared surface, called the green, of a particular type grass.
- (golf) The part of a game in which a player attempts to hit the ball into one of the holes.
- (baseball) The rear portion of the defensive team between the shortstop and the third baseman.
- (chess) A square on the board, with some positional significance, that a player does not, and cannot in future, control with a friendly pawn.
- (stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.
- In the game of fives, part of the floor of the court between the step and the pepperbox.
- (archaeology, slang) An excavation pit or trench.
- (figuratively) A weakness; a flaw or ambiguity.
- 2011, Fun – We Are Young
- But between the drinks and subtle things / The holes in my apologies, you know / I’m trying hard to take it back
- 2011, Fun – We Are Young
- (informal) A container or receptacle.
- (physics) In semiconductors, a lack of an electron in an occupied band behaving like a positively charged particle.
- (computing) A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- (slang, anatomy) An orifice, in particular the anus. When used with shut it always refers to the mouth.
- (Ireland, Scotland, particularly in the phrase “get one’s hole”) Sex, or a sex partner.
- (informal, with “the”) Solitary confinement, a high-security prison cell often used as punishment.
- Synonym: box
- 2011, Ahmariah Jackson, IAtomic Seven, Locked Up but Not Locked Down
- Disciplinary actions can range from a mere write up to serious time in the hole.
- (slang) An undesirable place to live or visit; a hovel.
- (figuratively) Difficulty, in particular, debt.
- (graph theory) A chordless cycle in a graph.
- (slang, rail transport) A passing loop; a siding provided for trains traveling in opposite directions on a single-track line to pass each other.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hole
- (solitary confinement): administrative segregation, ad-seg, block (UK), box, cooler (UK), hotbox, lockdown, pound, SCU, security housing unit, SHU, special handling unit
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Japanese: ホール (hōru)
- Sranan Tongo: olo
Translations
Verb
hole (third-person singular simple present holes, present participle holing, simple past and past participle holed)
- (transitive) To make holes in (an object or surface).
- (transitive, by extension) To destroy.
- (intransitive) To go into a hole.
- (transitive) To drive into a hole, as an animal, or a billiard ball or golf ball.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- If the player holes the red ball, he scores three, and upon holing his adversary’s ball, he gains two; and thus it frequently happens, that seven are got upon a single stroke, by caramboling and holing both balls.
- 1799, Sporting Magazine (volume 13, page 49)
- (transitive) To cut, dig, or bore a hole or holes in.
- to hole a post for the insertion of rails or bars
Derived terms
- holeable
- holer
- hole out
- hole up
Translations
Etymology 2
Adjective
hole (comparative holer or more hole, superlative holest or most hole)
- Obsolete spelling of whole.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
- Such was the arrangement of the alphabet over the hole North.
- 1843, Sir George Webbe Dasent (translator), A grammar of the Icelandic or Old Norse tongue (originally by Rasmus Christian Rask)
Anagrams
- Hoel, OHLE, helo, ohel, oleh
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɦolɛ]
Noun
hole
- inflection of hůl:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Verb
hole
- masculine singular present transgressive of holit
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoːlə/
Verb
hole
- inflection of holen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Hausa
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hóː.lèː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [hóː.lèː]
Verb
hōlḕ (grade 4)
- to relax, to enjoy oneself
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hāl
Adjective
hole
- healthy
- safe
- whole, complete, full
Alternative forms
- hol, ol, ole, hoal, hoale, hoel, hoil, hoille, holle, wholle
- hal, hale, halle (Northern)
References
- “hōl(e, adj.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Adverb
hole
- wholly
Alternative forms
- hol
References
- “hōl(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- whole, entirety
- health
- remedy, cure
Alternative forms
- hol
References
- “hōl(e, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Descendants
- English: whole
- Scots: hole, holl
Etymology 2
From Old English hol
Noun
hole (plural holes or holen)
- hole
Alternative forms
- hol, ol, ole, holle, hoil, houl, hul
Descendants
- English: hole
- Scots: hole
References
- “hō̆l(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3
From Old English hulu; see hull for more.
Noun
hole (plural holes)
- hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
- hut, shelter
- hull (of a ship)
Alternative forms
- hol, holle, hul, hule, ule, hulle, ulle, hoile, huole
Descendants
- English: hull
- Scots: huil
References
- “hol(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 4
Verb
hole
- past participle of helen (“to cover”)
- Synonym: heled
Alternative forms
- holn
Etymology 5
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of hol (“hollow”)
Etymology 6
Noun
hole (uncountable)
- Alternative form of oile (“oil”)
Etymology 7
Noun
hole (plural holen)
- Alternative form of oule (“owl”)
Etymology 8
Adjective
hole
- Alternative form of holy (“holy”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse hola
Noun
hole f or m (definite singular hola or holen, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- alternative form of hule
References
- “hole” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- hòle
Etymology
From Old Norse hola
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²hoːlə/
Noun
hole f (definite singular hola, indefinite plural holer, definite plural holene)
- a cave
- a cavity (anatomy)
- a den
Derived terms
- augehole
References
- “hole” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pennsylvania German
Etymology
From Middle High German holen, from Old High German holon, from Proto-West Germanic *holōn (“to fetch”). Compare German holen, Dutch halen. Related to English haul.
Verb
hole
- to fetch
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɦole]
Noun
hole f
- genitive singular of hoľa
Sotho
Noun
hole 17 (uncountable)
- far away
Yola
Verb
hole
- Alternative form of helt