fixed

Verb

• restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken
• cause to be firmly attached
  • "she fixed her gaze on the man"
• decide upon or fix definitely
• prepare for eating by applying heat
• take vengeance on or get even
• set or place definitely
• kill, preserve, and harden (tissue) in order to prepare for microscopic study
• make fixed, stable or stationary
• make infertile
• influence an event or its outcome by illegal means
• put (something somewhere) firmly
• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
• simple past and past participle of fix

Adjective Satellite

• (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
• fixed and unmoving; ; - Connor Cruise O'Brien
  • "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"
• incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g.
  • "living on fixed incomes"

Adjective

• securely placed or fastened or set
  • "a fixed piece of wood"
  • "a fixed resistor"

Adj

• Attached; affixed.
• Unable to move; unmovable.
• Unable to change or vary.
• Unlikely to change; stable.
• Unlikely to change; stable.
• Chemically stable.
• Supplied with what one needs.
• Recorded on a permanent medium.
• Surgically rendered sterile (e.g. spayed, neutered, or castrated).
• Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
• Resolved; corrected.
• Repaired.
• Being one of the signs Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius, associated with stability, permanence, and preservation.

Examples

• a fixed tomcat
• Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
• fixed assets
• He looked at me with a fixed glare.
• How are you fixed for money?
• I work fixed hours for a fixed salary.
• In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
• She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
• The mob made a lot of money from fixed horse races.
• the she-cat has been fixed
• The U.S. often relied on fixed elections to keep anti-communist dictatorships in power.

Synonyms

bushel, cook, define, deposit, desex, desexualise, desexualize, determine, doctor, fasten, fix, fixate, frozen, furbish up, gear up, get, limit, make, mend, pay back, pay off, posit, prepare, ready, repair, restore, rigid, secure, set, set up, situate, specify, sterilise, sterilize, touch on, unsex, bateless, bound, connected, consistent, equable, equal, even, even-keeled, fixed, immobile, immotile, immovable, immutable, inalterable, inanimate, inert, invariable, joined, lifeless, mended, monotonous, patched, perma-, permanent, perpetual, provided for, regular, samely, sessile, stable, static, stationary, steady, stuck, unabateable, unalterable, unchangeable, uncheckered, undeviating, uniform, unmovable, unmoveable, unvaried, unvarying, well-served

Antonyms

break, unfasten, unfixed, immobile, immutable, lacking, mobile, movable, moveable, present, steady, variable, volatile, wanting

Related Words

bribe, broken, crooked

Anagrams of fixed