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Fixed vs Cantilever - What's the difference?

fixed | cantilever |

As verbs the difference between fixed and cantilever

is that fixed is past tense of fix while cantilever is to project in the manner of a cantilever, or to project (something) by means of a cantilever.

As an adjective fixed

is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

As a noun cantilever is

a beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.

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
  • *
    • 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

    External links

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    cantilever

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia cantilever) (en noun)
  • (architecture) A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.

    • Derived terms

    * cantileverage * cantilever bridge

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To project in the manner of a cantilever, or to project (something) by means of a cantilever
  • * {{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 28, author=Nicolai Ouroussoff, title=Where Gods Yearn for Long-Lost Treasures, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Just above, the museums top floor seems to shift slightly, its corners cantilevering over the edge of the story below as if it is sliding off the top of the building. }}

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