Assured vs Fixed - What's the difference?
assured | fixed | Synonyms |
(assure)
Guaranteed
Confident.
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(fix)
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed
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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.
Assured is a synonym of fixed.
As verbs the difference between assured and fixed
is that assured is (assure) while fixed is (fix).As adjectives the difference between assured and fixed
is that assured is guaranteed while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.assured
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(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Youngster Townsend caught the eye on the wing, with his fantastic goal capping a classy performance, while Danny Rose continued his rapid development with an assured display at full-back.}}
Synonyms
* (guaranteed) sickerDerived terms
* assuredly * mutual assured destruction * self-assured * unassuredfixed
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- fixed assets
- I work fixed''' hours for a '''fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- ''He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- 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.
- a fixed''' tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been '''fixed
