Fixing vs Fixed - What's the difference?
fixing | fixed |
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(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 verbs the difference between fixing and fixed
is that fixing is present participle of lang=en while fixed is past tense of fix.As a noun fixing
is the act of subverting a vote.As an adjective fixed is
not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.fixing
English
Alternative forms
* (modal verb) fina, finnaVerb
(head)Alternative forms
* fixin'Synonyms
* (going) about, fittingSee also
* going tofixed
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
