fixed

IPA: fˈɪkst

adjective

  • Attached; affixed.
  • Not able to move; unmovable.
  • Not able to change or vary.
  • Unlikely to change; Stable.
  • (chemistry) Chemically stable.
  • Supplied with what one needs.
  • (law) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
  • (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
  • Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
  • (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
  • Repaired
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Examples of "fixed" in Sentences

  • Jules was on his back, his expression fixed in a blank stare.
  • The term fixed by Madame Desvarennes with the Prince had expired that morning.
  • Finally the term fixed for carrying out certain obligations of the contract expired without their fulfillment by the company, and the concession was forfeited.
  • Egyptian finance, as he feared panic towards the end of the term fixed; but the Ambassador said that the Chancellor attached no importance to any form of control.
  • President Hutchins desired to resign the Presidency in 1914, at the end of the term fixed by him in his letter of acceptance, but the Regents were unanimous in their desire to have him remain in office.
  • We find it fixed in these stones, for which reason Dr. Black called it “fixed air”—finding it in these fixed things like marble and chalk—he called it fixed air because it lost its quality of air, and assumed the condition of a solid body.
  • Fortune, -- "Volve sua spera, e beata si gode:" the motive power of this wheel distinguishing its goddess from the fixed majesty of Necessitas with her iron nails; or [Greek: anankê], with her pillar of fire and iridescent orbits, _fixed_ at the centre.

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