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Fixed vs Based - What's the difference?

fixed | based |

As verbs the difference between fixed and based

is that fixed is (fix) while based is (base).

As adjectives the difference between fixed and based

is that fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same while based is founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms.

fixed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fix)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
    • 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.
  • Stationary.
  • Attached; affixed
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    • 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
  • Chemically stable.
  • Supplied with what one needs.
    • She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
  • (legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
    • 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.
  • (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
    • a fixed''' tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been '''fixed
  • Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

    • Synonyms

    * stable, immobile

    Antonyms

    * mobile

    Derived terms

    * fixed-gear bicycle * fixed-point * fixed-term * fixed-term contract * fixed addresses * fixed air * fixed asset * fixed assets * fixed charge * fixed charges * fixed costs * fixed disk * fixed disks * fixed feast * * * fixed income * fixed incomes * fixed limit * fixed point * fixed points * fixed route * fixed satellite * fixed satellites * fixed set * fixed sets * fixed star * fixed stars * fixed wave * fixed waves * fixedly * fixedness * fixednesses * fixety

    See also

    * broken * crooked * bribe

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    based

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • founded on; having a basis; often used in combining forms
    • That was a soundly based argument.

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (base)
  • Being derived from (usually followed by on' or ' upon ).
    • It's a new film based on a best-selling novel.
  • Having a
    • The ladder is based on the even sidewalk for stability.
  • Having a base of operations.
    • The company is based in New York.

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