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Unfixed vs Fixed - What's the difference?

unfixed | fixed |

As adjectives the difference between unfixed and fixed

is that unfixed is not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

As verbs the difference between unfixed and fixed

is that unfixed is (unfix) while fixed is (fix).

unfixed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely
  • * {{quote-book, 1873,
  • , passage=The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef, but a runaway reef, unfixed and elusive. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2008, date=November 28, Ariane Dimitrov et al., Detection of GTP-Tubulin Conformation in Vivo Reveals a Role for GTP Remnants in Microtubule Rescue, Science, volume=322, issue=5906 citation
  • , passage=It was best to use unfixed cells permeabilized in the presence of glycerol and/or low taxol concentration to prevent microtubule depolymerization.}}

    Verb

    (head)
  • (unfix)
  • 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