Customary vs Fixed - What's the difference?
customary | fixed |
A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual.
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*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
*1777 , Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland
*:The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.
(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 customary and fixed
is that customary is agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As a noun customary
is a book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.As a verb fixed is
(fix).customary
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(customaries)Adjective
(en adjective)Quotations
* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 39 *: When two people met for the first time in Diaspar—or even for the hundredth—it was customary to spend an hour or so in an exchange or courtesies before getting down to business, if any.Synonyms
*Derived terms
* customarilyfixed
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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