Settled vs Fixed - What's the difference?
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Comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest.
(settle)
(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 adjectives the difference between settled and fixed
is that settled is comfortable and at ease, especially after a period of change or unrest while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As verbs the difference between settled and fixed
is that settled is past tense of settle while fixed is past tense of fix.settled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- It took me a while to feel settled after I moved to this big city.
Verb
(head)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