Difference between Fix and Get

What is the difference between Fix and Get?

Fix as a verb is to mend, to repair. while Get as a verb is to obtain, purchase or acquire.

Fix

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To mend, to repair. To attach, to become attached; to affix. To become acutely focused or obsessed. To prepare. To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins. To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. To map a (point or subset) to itself. To avenge, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. To purposefully stare at someone.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A repair or corrective action. A difficult situation; a quandry or dilemma. A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user. A prearrangement of the outcome of a competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

Example sentence: Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Get

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Offspring.Lineage.A difficult return or block of a shot.A git.A Jewish writ of divorce.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To obtain, purchase or acquire.To receive.To fetch.To become.To cause to become; to bring about.(used with preposition) To don or doff clothing, etc.To cause to do.To betake oneself.To arrive (at) or progress (towards a place or outcome).To go or come (to a specified place, or in a specified manner).To adopt or assume (a certain position or state).To begin (doing something).To take or catch (a scheduled transportation service).To respond to (a telephone call, a doorbell, etc).To be able, permitted (to do something); to have the opportunity (to do something).To understand.To be (used to form the passive of verbs).To become ill with or catch (a disease).To catch out, trick successfully.To perplex, stump.To find as an answer.To bring to reckoning; to catch (as a criminal).To physically assault.To hear completely; catch.To getter.

Example sentence: Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

We hope you now know whether to use Fix or Get in your sentence.

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