Repairable vs Fixed - What's the difference?
repairable | fixed |
Able to be repaired.
(fix)
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed
*
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 adjectives the difference between repairable and fixed
is that repairable is able to be repaired while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As a verb fixed is
(fix).repairable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Luckily, the damage from the accident was repairable .
Synonyms
* (able to be repaired ): fixable, mendable, rectifiable, reparableDerived terms
* repairabilityfixed
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