Fixed vs Idler - What's the difference?
fixed | idler |
(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.
One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
(nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watchOED 2nd edition 1989
A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idler%20wheelhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idler+pulleyOED 2nd edition 1989
(idle)
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As adjectives the difference between fixed and idler
is that fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same while idler is (idle).As a verb fixed
is (fix).As a noun idler is
one who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.fixed
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