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Confixed vs Nonfixed - What's the difference?

confixed | nonfixed |

As a verb confixed

is past tense of confix.

As an adjective nonfixed is

not fixed; capable of change or movement.

confixed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (confix)

    • confix

    English

    (wikipedia confix)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (linguistics) An affix consisting of a prefix and suffix affixed simultaneously to the root
  • *{{quote-book, 2005, Elizabeth Zeitoun, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, chapter=Tsou citation
    • , passage=As is demonstrated by m-as-ku, tens are derived from the confix m- ... -hu. }}
  • (linguistics, rare) An affix which is not divided, and which does not divide a root: thus, a prefix, suffix, or interfix
  • *{{quote-book, 1982, & Philip Luelsdorff, Towards a Language of Linguistics, url=, page=84
    • , passage=22. A PREFIX: a confix which precedes a root.}}

    Synonyms

    *(prefix-suffix unit) circumfix, ambifix

    Coordinate terms

    *(affixes)

    Verb

    (es)
  • (obsolete) To make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
  • *

    • nonfixed

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not fixed; capable of change or movement.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 1, author=The Associated Press, title=China: Profit Down for Fixed-Line Phone Company, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=China Telecom is gearing up for a “full services offering” to expand its nonfixed line broadband and wireless businesses as it struggles to compete with a cellphone rival, China Mobile . }}