fixing

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The act of making firm, stable, steadfast, or secure; the act of determining, settling, establishing, or rendering permanent; consolidation; establishment; the process by which anything is fixed.
• noun The act of repairing or putting to rights or in order.
• noun In machinery, a piece of cast-iron adapted to carry pillow-blocks and the like.
• noun In metallurgy, the coating of the lining of the revolving chamber of the Danks furnace (see puddle) with a second or working lining, accomplished by covering the first lining with a melted coating formed of hydrated non-silicious ore of iron mixed with scrap-iron; also, the coating so applied. This fixing is analogous to the fettling of the ordinary puddling-furnace.
• noun Establishment in life; the act of setting up in housekeeping, or of furnishing a house.
• noun plural Things needed for fixing, preparing, or putting in order; arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; garnishings of any kind: as, railroad fixings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or process of making fixed.
• noun That which is fixed; a fixture.
• noun Colloq. U.S. Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun The act of subverting a vote.
• verb Present participle of fix.
• verb southern US, slang, with infinitive Going; preparing; ready.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the sterilization of an animal
• noun the act of putting something in working order again
• noun (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
• noun restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place