FIXED

fixed, frozen

(adjective) incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. “frozen prices”; “living on fixed incomes”

fixed

(adjective) (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value

fixed

(adjective) securely placed or fastened or set; “a fixed piece of wood”; “a fixed resistor”

fixed, set, rigid

(adjective) fixed and unmoving; “with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare”; “his bearded face already has a set hollow look”- Connor Cruise O’Brien; “a face rigid with pain”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

fixed

simple past tense and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

Stationary.

Attached; affixed.

Chemically stable.

Supplied with what one needs.

(legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

(of a problem) Resolved; corrected.

Repaired

Synonyms

• (not able to be changed, staying the same): stable, immobile

Antonyms

• (not able to be changed, staying the same): mobile

Anagrams

• defix

Source: Wiktionary

Fixed, a.

1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.

2. (Chem.)

Definition: Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.

– Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.

– Fixed ammunition (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading.

– Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery.

– Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc.

– Fixed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4.

– Fixed fact, a well established fact. [Colloq.] -- Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light.

– Fixed oils (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not be distilled unchanged; -- distinguished from volatile or essential oils.

– Fixed pivot (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels.

– Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.

FIX

Fix, a. Etym: [OE., fr. L. fixus, p.p. of figere to fix; cf. F. fixe.]

Definition: Fixed; solidified. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Fix, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fixed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fixing.] Etym: [Cf. F. fixer.]

1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make efinite. An ass's nole I fixed on his head. Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. Milton.

2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. Young.

3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] Sandys.

4. (Photog.)

Definition: To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications a will make it insensible to the action of light. Abney.

5. To put in prder; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room. [Colloq. U.S.]

6. (Iron Manuf.)

Definition: To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.

Syn.

– To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establis; settle; determine.

Fix, v. i.

1. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here. Waller.

2. 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. Bacon. To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.

Fix, n.

1. A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dillema. [Colloq.] Is he not living, then No. is he dead, then No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey.

2. (Iron Manuf.)

Definition: fettling. [U.S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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