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Repair
The technical meaning of maintenance involves functional checks, servicing, repairing or replacing of necessary devices, equipment, machinery, building infrastructure, and supporting utilities in industrial, business, governmental, and residential installations. Over time, this has come to often include both scheduled and preventive maintenance as cost-effective practices to keep equipment ready for operation at the utilization stage of a system lifecycle.
The marine transportation, offshore structures, industrial plant and facility management industries depend on maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) including scheduled or preventive paint maintenance programmes to maintain and restore coatings applied to steel in environments subject to attack from erosion, corrosion and environmental pollution.
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Repair (noun)
The act of repairing something.
“I took the car to the workshop for repair.”
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Repair (noun)
The result of repairing something.
“If you look closely you can see the repair in the paintwork.”
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Repair (noun)
The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
“The car was overall in poor repair before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent repair. But the other vehicle was beyond repair.”
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Repair (noun)
The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
“our annual repair to the mountains”
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Repair (noun)
A place to which one goes frequently or habitually; a haunt.
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Repair (verb)
To restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; to mend; to remedy.
“to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship”
“to repair a shattered fortune”
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Repair (verb)
To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for.
“to repair a loss or damage”
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Repair (verb)
To transfer oneself to another place.
“to repair to sanctuary for safety”
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Repair (verb)
to pair again
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Fix (noun)
A repair or corrective action.
“That plumber’s fix is much better than the first one’s.”
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Fix (noun)
A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma; a predicament.
“It rained before we repaired the roof, and were we in a fix!”
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Fix (noun)
A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
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Fix (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.
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Fix (noun)
A determination of location.
“We have a fix on your position.”
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Fix (noun)
fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace)
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Fix (verb)
To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
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Fix (verb)
To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
“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 fixes the date when Congress must meet.”
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Fix (verb)
(Of a piercing look) to direct at someone.
“He fixed me with a sickly grin, and said, “I told you it wouldn’t work!””
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Fix (verb)
To mend, to repair.
“That heater will start a fire if you don’t fix it.”
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Fix (verb)
To prepare (food).
“She fixed dinner for the kids.”
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Fix (verb)
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
“A majority of voters believed the election was fixed in favor of the incumbent.”
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Fix (verb)
To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
“Rover stopped digging under the fence after we had the vet fix him.”
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Fix (verb)
To map a (point or subset) to itself.
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Fix (verb)
To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
“He got caught breaking into lockers, so a couple of guys fixed him after work.”
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Fix (verb)
To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.
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Fix (verb)
To convert into a stable or available form.
“Legumes are valued in crop rotation for their ability to fix nitrogen.”
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Fix (verb)
To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
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Fix (verb)
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.