Uniform vs Fixed - What's the difference?
uniform | fixed |
Unvarying; all the same.
Consistent; conforming to one standard.
* Hooker
(mathematics) with speed of convergence not depending on choice of function argument; as in uniform continuity, uniform convergence
A distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 * F. W. Robertson
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Phonetic equivalent for the letter U in the ICAO spelling alphabet, informally known as the NATO phonetic alphabet.
A uniformed police officer (as opposed to a detective).
* 1996 , S. J. Rozan, Concourse , Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-95944-3, page 265,
* 2001 , Christine Wiltz, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld , Da Capo Press, ISBN 0-306-81012-3, page 113,
* 2004 , , Penny Dreadful , MacAdam/Cage Publishing, ISBN 1-931561-81-8, page 81,
To clothe in a uniform.
* {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition=
, passage=You can't erect an army by uniforming and drilling a few hundred thousand clerks and farmers. }}
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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 adjectives the difference between uniform and fixed
is that uniform is unvarying; all the same while fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.As verbs the difference between uniform and fixed
is that uniform is to clothe in a uniform while fixed is past tense of fix.As a noun uniform
is a distinctive outfit that serves to identify members of a group.uniform
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The only doubt is how far churches are bound to be uniform in their ceremonies.
Derived terms
* uniformity * uniformlyNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- There are many things which a soldier will do in his plain clothes which he scorns to do in his uniform .
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16.
- Skeletor held the gun against Speedo’s head, held Speedo between himself and the cops who stood, motionless and futile, where they’d stopped. Robinson, Lindfors, Carter, three uniforms and I watched helpless as Skeletor, dragging Speedy with him, inched out the gate, started backing down the hill.
- Four men flew out of it, three uniforms and one in what appeared to be an English riding outfit—boots, whip, the whole nine yards. He called out, “I’m the superintendent of police.”
- Eyes to the front now and there was the body, a lump of black and brown. Moon counted three uniforms and a photographer, the medical examiner and his assistant.
Verb
(en verb)citation
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