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FIXED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.
Example:
living on fixed incomes
Synonyms:
fixed; frozen
Classified under:
Similar:
unchangeable (not changeable or subject to change)
Derivation:
fixity (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
Classified under:
Similar:
determinate (precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause)
Derivation:
fixedness (the quality of being fixed and unchangeable)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Securely placed or fastened or set
Example:
a fixed resistor
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
fast; firm; immobile (securely fixed in place)
geostationary (of or having a geosynchronous orbit such that the position in such an orbit is fixed with respect to the earth)
geosynchronous (of or having an orbit with a fixed period of 24 hours (although the position in the orbit may not be fixed with respect to the earth))
leaded ((of panes of glass) fixed in place by means of thin strips of lead)
stationary (not capable of being moved)
taped (secured or held in place by tape)
unadjustable (not adjustable)
Also:
secure (not likely to fail or give way)
Antonym:
unfixed (not firmly placed or set or fastened)
Derivation:
fixedness; fixity (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Fixed and unmoving
Example:
a face rigid with pain
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
nonmoving; unmoving (not in motion)
Derivation:
fixedness (remaining in place)
fixity (the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb fix
Context examples:
This prince has several machines fixed on wheels, for the carriage of trees and other great weights.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
In his puppyhood, under the persecution of Lip-lip and the puppy-pack, and in his fighting days with Beauty Smith, he had acquired a fixed aversion for dogs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I looked up with a flush upon my face and remorse in my heart, but Mr. Mell's eyes were fixed on Steerforth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
You are not listening to my moral remarks, Mrs. Laurence, and Laurie paused, for Amy's eyes had an absent look, though fixed upon his face.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I then framed and fixed a resolution.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When I gave you this envelope I must confess that I had never intended that you should open it, for it had been my fixed intention to be with you before the hour.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At such moments, panting with red lolling tongue and with eyes fixed upon the big bull, it appeared to Buck that a change was coming over the face of things.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The participants to the study were placed on a fixed diet and allowed either a normal 8.5 hours of sleep or a restricted 4.5 hours of sleep for 4 consecutive days.
(Molecular ties between lack of sleep and weight gain, NIH)
Many people with chronic cancer-related pain experience intermittent flares of pain that can occur even though a person is taking analgesic medications on a fixed schedule for pain control.
(Breakthrough pain, NCI Thesaurus)
Slowly she advanced, her face pale and drawn with a frightful apprehension, her eyes fixed and staring, her terrified gaze riveted upon the dark figure on the floor.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
