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Fixed vs Unbending - What's the difference?

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Fixed is a related term of unbending.


As verbs the difference between fixed and unbending

is that fixed is (fix) while unbending is .

As adjectives the difference between fixed and unbending

is that fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same while unbending is inflexible and not yielding.

As a noun unbending is

the act of one who unbends.

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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    unbending

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • inflexible and not yielding
  • very reserved, aloof and antisocial

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who unbends.
  • * 1838 , The Eclectic Review
    • He was a frequent visitor at Wimbledon where Mr. Wilberforce now resided, and the following account is given of his social unbendings .