Competitive vs Fixed - What's the difference?
competitive | fixed |
(economics) capable of competing successfully
of or pertaining to competition
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(of someone's character) inclined to compete
(biochemistry) inhibiting the action of an enzyme by binding with it
(euphemistically, of prices) cheap, especially used of quality products
(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.
As adjectives the difference between competitive and fixed
is that competitive is while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As a verb fixed is
(fix).competitive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, page= , passage=Manchester United's Tom Cleverley impressed on his first competitive start and Lampard demonstrated his continued worth at international level in a performance that was little more than a stroll once England swiftly exerted their obvious authority.}}
Antonyms
* (of or pertaining to competition) cooperativeDerived terms
* competitively * competitiveness * competitive person * competitive advantage * competitive edgefixed
English
Verb
(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