Definition of fixed in English:

fixed

adjective fɪkstfɪkst

1Fastened securely in position.
a fixed iron ladder down the port side
Example sentencesExamples
- Thread the fixed clamp jaws securely to the pipe sections.
- Many portholes had long been taken by souvenir-hunters, although several rows securely fixed indicated that the wreck was not quite ready to give everything away.
- It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch.
Synonyms
fastened, secure, fast, firm, stable
rooted, riveted, moored, anchored, permanent
1. 1.1 (of a person's expression) held for a long time without changing, especially to conceal other feelings.
  a fixed smile
  Example sentencesExamples
  He does this while staring me straight in the eye, a fixed smile on his face.
  But because Mia was their first child, they assumed the fixed expression on her face was normal for a newborn baby.
  Cabin crew are supposed to wear fixed smiles: she looked as gloomy as gloomy can be.
  She has staring eyes and a permanent pert, fixed smile.
  I rushed to the mouth of my garage and stood next to Will, who was looking out with a fixed expression.
  It is then that they noticed that his eyes have a fixed expression, then when they saw him open the book in hand and move his fingers across to read the Braille and laugh to himself.
  Most of her paintings were self-portraits showing her with a fixed, expressionless face staring out at viewers.
  He seemed to carry on a silent battle, but then sighed and a fixed expression came over his face.
  Now there was a book that told us what really goes on behind the tall railings and fixed smiles.
  I lost my patience and I lost my fixed greeting smile.
  Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room.
  It was, as a glance around the fixed expressions in the room confirmed, a time for private thoughts.
  Mr. Billingham's mouth, normally in a fixed smile, was as straight as the ruler Mother uses to whack me once in a while, a ruler facing horizontally.
  With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them.
  The soldier just stared back at him, expression fixed and stony.
  The eyes were always fixed ahead and regarded us only as obstacles to be sidestepped.
  His features were pale and gaunt, a fixed, haunted expression upon his face.
  As the tape finished, the light flicked back on again, leaving me staring at my own reflection once more, my fixed expression registering even more stunned shock than before.
  On closer inspection, the women's tight, fixed smiles betrayed the very end of patience.
  He's wheelchair bound, and had an eerie sort of fixed smile on his face.
  Synonyms
  insincere, false, fake, vacuous
  emotionless, lifeless, motionless
2(especially of a price, rate, or time) predetermined and not able to be changed.
loans are provided for a fixed period
Example sentencesExamples
- In the past, the greatest flexibility that mortgage holders were offered was the choice of a variable or a fixed rate.
- There is no standard fixed price veterinarians must charge for certain operations, and it's a seller's market.
- After paying a deposit (usually a minimum of ten per cent), you pay monthly instalments over a fixed term at a fixed rate of interest.
- The advantage for the farmer is that he can plan his requirements and have guaranteed delivery of his feed inputs at a fixed price over an agreed period of time.
- With one house in Bearsden already on the market for a fixed price of £2m, a new record is likely this year.
- The bonds pay a fixed rate of interest, currently 3%.
- Even homes in two of the city's most sought-after suburbs, were on the market at fixed prices.
- And some continental countries have still had house price booms despite fixed rates.
- Instead, she said the change to a fixed price agreement allowed Irish Rail more control over what methods would be used during the project.
- During this period fixed rate mortgages have increased by nearly half a point to 5.97%.
- These mortgages are primarily priced at a fixed rate.
- Prior to the recent changes, this fixed price included free fruit, yoghurts and desserts.
- ‘With the markets having calmed down and with fixed rates fairly highly priced, borrowers are looking more at discounts or trackers,’ she said.
- We have now changed it to a fixed price of £190,000.
- Fixed rates are exactly that, loans with a fixed rate of interest for an agreed period, usually two, three or five years.
- But if you think you'll be in your home for a longer period, a fixed rate may be a better choice, he says.
- A fixed rate of interest is applied, which is usually much higher than the general retail rate.
- But even a loan with a variable interest rate may contain provision for a fixed rate period.
- They want me to quote a fixed price.
- In each case there is an arrangement fee of £299 with no tie-ins after the fixed rate period.
Synonyms
predetermined, set, established, allotted, settled, prearranged, arranged, specified, decided, agreed, determined, confirmed, prescribed, decreed
definite, defined, explicit, express, precise, exact
not subject to change, inflexible, unalterable, unchangeable, irreversible, rigid, hard and fast, writ in stone
1. 2.1 (of a view or idea) firm or inflexible.
  the fixed assumptions of the Cold War
  Example sentencesExamples
  We also want to send visitors who come up with a fixed view of Highlands culture away happy.
  From the moment that we are born into the world to the day in which we die, we as humans develop our own systems of fixed beliefs; paradigms that we accept as truths and therefore rarely question.
  The fixed standpoint ossifies while the world moves on.
  Diverting off at a tangent for a second, I'm wondering if all of these unexpected phenomena indicate that I have a head full of fixed expectations that might be holding me back in other areas.
  A delusion is a fixed belief in something manifestly absurd or untrue, and that can't be overcome by reason.
  This means that he held the conclusion as a fixed view and tried to bring forward arguments in favour of it, though without logical success.
  And then, of course, there are the vast swathes of people in the middle who don't have a fixed view either way.
  Perceived value is certainly not a fixed notion, for it varies over a host of ever-changing attributes.
  His songs lend themselves to other voices, they are not bound by fixed notions of gender, time or place.
  It is not for this column to enter the political debate over ID cards - the Government evidently has its own fixed view of their value, consultations notwithstanding.
  Since he has never been to Indonesia before, he did not want to come with a fixed concept, but rather to discover the new situation first.
  These efforts tend to see childhood as a fixed notion and not to appreciate the importance of culture within society.
  Art teachers can think of this activity as a means to circumvent fixed attitudes about drawing in a naturalistic mode.
  Taking it a step further, few news reports have examined how society's fixed notion of gender roles may determine more than just who is being bullied.
  Korean Buddhist thought devoted itself to philosophical reformation and the overcoming of fixed concepts from the beginning.
  When the general acts with a fixed view, every bit of new information is interpreted in relation to that view, and emerging possibilities are missed.
  That said, I believe this could work to our advantage as there tends to be a fixed expectation and image about their cars.
  The view that childhood is a fixed notion, determined by biological and psychological facts rather than culture or society, is implicit.
  He was a consummate pragmatist, but he was guided by fixed views.
  I mean if you're doing one thing all your life and becoming procedurally more and more adept at that one thing, then you're going to end up with quite a fixed view of things.
  Synonyms
  set, firm, inflexible, unalterable, unchangeable, immutable, unvarying, invariable, hard and fast, cast-iron
3informal (of a sports contest) having the outcome dishonestly predetermined.
the fight's fixed—the ref has your card marked
Example sentencesExamples
- All the players of the five teams who appeared in the fixed matches would be barred from playing next season and their coaches banned for a year.
- It is widely believed that the Chinese football league is plagued by irregularities, including unfair refereeing, fixed matches and betting.
- Besides anorexia and steroid abuse, there have, over the years, been rumours of fixed contests.
4fixed forinformal Situated with regard to.
how's the club fixed for money now?

Phrases

of no fixed address (or abode)

Having no place of permanent residence.
a local man, of no fixed address, has been remanded in custody
Example sentencesExamples
- A 32-year-old man, of no fixed abode, was charged with robbery in connection with last Tuesday's incident.
- The farmhand of no fixed abode was freed from custody yesterday after twice earlier being refused bail by district court judges.
- He is currently remanded in custody as if he wasn't he would be of no fixed abode.
- The Inspector reiterated the prosecution's previous opposition to the granting of bail, on the grounds that the accused are of no fixed abode.
- I have officially been of no fixed abode or employment status for seven weeks now.
- A 37-year-old man of no fixed abode, arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of an offensive weapon, was remanded into custody to appear in court tomorrow.

Derivatives

fixedly

adverb ˈfɪksɪdli

Anyway the end result was that for four hours we witnessed the odd ritual of some 2,000 people gazing fixedly at a field on which nothing was happening.
Example sentencesExamples
- The captain was looking fixedly at the flagstones.
- Even if those claims prove untrue, moral culpability remains fixedly weighted against the idea that he should be able to walk away from the scandal.
- I stared at the doctor fixedly, all 250 pounds of me.
- He tapped a few keys and stared fixedly at the screen.

fixedness

noun ˈfɪksɪdnəsˈfɪksɪdnəs

Functional fixedness, or thinking about objects only in terms of their functions, is another kind of mental set that prevents problem solving.
Example sentencesExamples
- Continually, her approach is to question fixedness and limits, to seek unknown responses and responsibilities, to choose movement and being moved, and to enjoy the pleasure of thinking.
- One feels that each, in different ways, has confronted the fixedness of a poetic identity and managed to break it open, to begin again.
- One can't help but respect this fortepianist, though, for his courage and for the fixedness of his vision.
- Yet, it is precisely because of its fixedness in the landscape that, to those who see the monument, it becomes invisibly part of the landscape.

Definition of fixed in US English:

fixed

adjectivefɪkstfikst

1Fastened securely in position.
a fixed iron ladder down the port side
Example sentencesExamples
- It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch.
- Many portholes had long been taken by souvenir-hunters, although several rows securely fixed indicated that the wreck was not quite ready to give everything away.
- Thread the fixed clamp jaws securely to the pipe sections.
Synonyms
fastened, secure, fast, firm, stable
1. 1.1 (of a person's expression) held for a long time without changing, especially to conceal other feelings.
  a fixed smile
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most of her paintings were self-portraits showing her with a fixed, expressionless face staring out at viewers.
  The soldier just stared back at him, expression fixed and stony.
  She has staring eyes and a permanent pert, fixed smile.
  But because Mia was their first child, they assumed the fixed expression on her face was normal for a newborn baby.
  With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them.
  Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room.
  On closer inspection, the women's tight, fixed smiles betrayed the very end of patience.
  He's wheelchair bound, and had an eerie sort of fixed smile on his face.
  He seemed to carry on a silent battle, but then sighed and a fixed expression came over his face.
  It is then that they noticed that his eyes have a fixed expression, then when they saw him open the book in hand and move his fingers across to read the Braille and laugh to himself.
  Cabin crew are supposed to wear fixed smiles: she looked as gloomy as gloomy can be.
  He does this while staring me straight in the eye, a fixed smile on his face.
  Mr. Billingham's mouth, normally in a fixed smile, was as straight as the ruler Mother uses to whack me once in a while, a ruler facing horizontally.
  I lost my patience and I lost my fixed greeting smile.
  It was, as a glance around the fixed expressions in the room confirmed, a time for private thoughts.
  As the tape finished, the light flicked back on again, leaving me staring at my own reflection once more, my fixed expression registering even more stunned shock than before.
  I rushed to the mouth of my garage and stood next to Will, who was looking out with a fixed expression.
  His features were pale and gaunt, a fixed, haunted expression upon his face.
  Now there was a book that told us what really goes on behind the tall railings and fixed smiles.
  The eyes were always fixed ahead and regarded us only as obstacles to be sidestepped.
  Synonyms
  insincere, false, fake, vacuous
2(especially of a price, rate, or time) predetermined and not subject to or able to be changed.
most trusts locked investors in for a fixed period
Example sentencesExamples
- The advantage for the farmer is that he can plan his requirements and have guaranteed delivery of his feed inputs at a fixed price over an agreed period of time.
- Instead, she said the change to a fixed price agreement allowed Irish Rail more control over what methods would be used during the project.
- The bonds pay a fixed rate of interest, currently 3%.
- Fixed rates are exactly that, loans with a fixed rate of interest for an agreed period, usually two, three or five years.
- But even a loan with a variable interest rate may contain provision for a fixed rate period.
- Prior to the recent changes, this fixed price included free fruit, yoghurts and desserts.
- But if you think you'll be in your home for a longer period, a fixed rate may be a better choice, he says.
- There is no standard fixed price veterinarians must charge for certain operations, and it's a seller's market.
- Even homes in two of the city's most sought-after suburbs, were on the market at fixed prices.
- We have now changed it to a fixed price of £190,000.
- After paying a deposit (usually a minimum of ten per cent), you pay monthly instalments over a fixed term at a fixed rate of interest.
- ‘With the markets having calmed down and with fixed rates fairly highly priced, borrowers are looking more at discounts or trackers,’ she said.
- In the past, the greatest flexibility that mortgage holders were offered was the choice of a variable or a fixed rate.
- With one house in Bearsden already on the market for a fixed price of £2m, a new record is likely this year.
- They want me to quote a fixed price.
- A fixed rate of interest is applied, which is usually much higher than the general retail rate.
- During this period fixed rate mortgages have increased by nearly half a point to 5.97%.
- And some continental countries have still had house price booms despite fixed rates.
- In each case there is an arrangement fee of £299 with no tie-ins after the fixed rate period.
- These mortgages are primarily priced at a fixed rate.
Synonyms
predetermined, set, established, allotted, settled, prearranged, arranged, specified, decided, agreed, determined, confirmed, prescribed, decreed
1. 2.1 (of a view or idea) held inflexibly.
  the fixed assumptions of the Cold War
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was a consummate pragmatist, but he was guided by fixed views.
  It is not for this column to enter the political debate over ID cards - the Government evidently has its own fixed view of their value, consultations notwithstanding.
  The fixed standpoint ossifies while the world moves on.
  A delusion is a fixed belief in something manifestly absurd or untrue, and that can't be overcome by reason.
  That said, I believe this could work to our advantage as there tends to be a fixed expectation and image about their cars.
  Taking it a step further, few news reports have examined how society's fixed notion of gender roles may determine more than just who is being bullied.
  I mean if you're doing one thing all your life and becoming procedurally more and more adept at that one thing, then you're going to end up with quite a fixed view of things.
  We also want to send visitors who come up with a fixed view of Highlands culture away happy.
  When the general acts with a fixed view, every bit of new information is interpreted in relation to that view, and emerging possibilities are missed.
  This means that he held the conclusion as a fixed view and tried to bring forward arguments in favour of it, though without logical success.
  These efforts tend to see childhood as a fixed notion and not to appreciate the importance of culture within society.
  Korean Buddhist thought devoted itself to philosophical reformation and the overcoming of fixed concepts from the beginning.
  Perceived value is certainly not a fixed notion, for it varies over a host of ever-changing attributes.
  Diverting off at a tangent for a second, I'm wondering if all of these unexpected phenomena indicate that I have a head full of fixed expectations that might be holding me back in other areas.
  Since he has never been to Indonesia before, he did not want to come with a fixed concept, but rather to discover the new situation first.
  His songs lend themselves to other voices, they are not bound by fixed notions of gender, time or place.
  The view that childhood is a fixed notion, determined by biological and psychological facts rather than culture or society, is implicit.
  Art teachers can think of this activity as a means to circumvent fixed attitudes about drawing in a naturalistic mode.
  And then, of course, there are the vast swathes of people in the middle who don't have a fixed view either way.
  From the moment that we are born into the world to the day in which we die, we as humans develop our own systems of fixed beliefs; paradigms that we accept as truths and therefore rarely question.
  Synonyms
  set, firm, inflexible, unalterable, unchangeable, immutable, unvarying, invariable, hard and fast, cast-iron
3informal (of a sports contest) having the outcome dishonestly predetermined.
the fight's fixed—the ref has your card marked
Example sentencesExamples
- It is widely believed that the Chinese football league is plagued by irregularities, including unfair refereeing, fixed matches and betting.
- All the players of the five teams who appeared in the fixed matches would be barred from playing next season and their coaches banned for a year.
- Besides anorexia and steroid abuse, there have, over the years, been rumours of fixed contests.
4fixed forinformal predicative Situated with regard to.
how's the club fixed for money now?

单词	fixed
释义	Definition of fixed in English: fixed adjective fɪkstfɪkst 1Fastened securely in position. a fixed iron ladder down the port side Example sentencesExamples Thread the fixed clamp jaws securely to the pipe sections. Many portholes had long been taken by souvenir-hunters, although several rows securely fixed indicated that the wreck was not quite ready to give everything away. It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch. Synonyms fastened, secure, fast, firm, stable rooted, riveted, moored, anchored, permanent 1.1 (of a person's expression) held for a long time without changing, especially to conceal other feelings. a fixed smile Example sentencesExamples He does this while staring me straight in the eye, a fixed smile on his face. But because Mia was their first child, they assumed the fixed expression on her face was normal for a newborn baby. Cabin crew are supposed to wear fixed smiles: she looked as gloomy as gloomy can be. She has staring eyes and a permanent pert, fixed smile. I rushed to the mouth of my garage and stood next to Will, who was looking out with a fixed expression. It is then that they noticed that his eyes have a fixed expression, then when they saw him open the book in hand and move his fingers across to read the Braille and laugh to himself. Most of her paintings were self-portraits showing her with a fixed, expressionless face staring out at viewers. He seemed to carry on a silent battle, but then sighed and a fixed expression came over his face. Now there was a book that told us what really goes on behind the tall railings and fixed smiles. I lost my patience and I lost my fixed greeting smile. Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room. It was, as a glance around the fixed expressions in the room confirmed, a time for private thoughts. Mr. Billingham's mouth, normally in a fixed smile, was as straight as the ruler Mother uses to whack me once in a while, a ruler facing horizontally. With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them. The soldier just stared back at him, expression fixed and stony. The eyes were always fixed ahead and regarded us only as obstacles to be sidestepped. His features were pale and gaunt, a fixed, haunted expression upon his face. As the tape finished, the light flicked back on again, leaving me staring at my own reflection once more, my fixed expression registering even more stunned shock than before. On closer inspection, the women's tight, fixed smiles betrayed the very end of patience. He's wheelchair bound, and had an eerie sort of fixed smile on his face. Synonyms insincere, false, fake, vacuous emotionless, lifeless, motionless 2(especially of a price, rate, or time) predetermined and not able to be changed. loans are provided for a fixed period Example sentencesExamples In the past, the greatest flexibility that mortgage holders were offered was the choice of a variable or a fixed rate. There is no standard fixed price veterinarians must charge for certain operations, and it's a seller's market. After paying a deposit (usually a minimum of ten per cent), you pay monthly instalments over a fixed term at a fixed rate of interest. The advantage for the farmer is that he can plan his requirements and have guaranteed delivery of his feed inputs at a fixed price over an agreed period of time. With one house in Bearsden already on the market for a fixed price of £2m, a new record is likely this year. The bonds pay a fixed rate of interest, currently 3%. Even homes in two of the city's most sought-after suburbs, were on the market at fixed prices. And some continental countries have still had house price booms despite fixed rates. Instead, she said the change to a fixed price agreement allowed Irish Rail more control over what methods would be used during the project. During this period fixed rate mortgages have increased by nearly half a point to 5.97%. These mortgages are primarily priced at a fixed rate. Prior to the recent changes, this fixed price included free fruit, yoghurts and desserts. ‘With the markets having calmed down and with fixed rates fairly highly priced, borrowers are looking more at discounts or trackers,’ she said. We have now changed it to a fixed price of £190,000. Fixed rates are exactly that, loans with a fixed rate of interest for an agreed period, usually two, three or five years. But if you think you'll be in your home for a longer period, a fixed rate may be a better choice, he says. A fixed rate of interest is applied, which is usually much higher than the general retail rate. But even a loan with a variable interest rate may contain provision for a fixed rate period. They want me to quote a fixed price. In each case there is an arrangement fee of £299 with no tie-ins after the fixed rate period. Synonyms predetermined, set, established, allotted, settled, prearranged, arranged, specified, decided, agreed, determined, confirmed, prescribed, decreed definite, defined, explicit, express, precise, exact not subject to change, inflexible, unalterable, unchangeable, irreversible, rigid, hard and fast, writ in stone 2.1 (of a view or idea) firm or inflexible. the fixed assumptions of the Cold War Example sentencesExamples We also want to send visitors who come up with a fixed view of Highlands culture away happy. From the moment that we are born into the world to the day in which we die, we as humans develop our own systems of fixed beliefs; paradigms that we accept as truths and therefore rarely question. The fixed standpoint ossifies while the world moves on. Diverting off at a tangent for a second, I'm wondering if all of these unexpected phenomena indicate that I have a head full of fixed expectations that might be holding me back in other areas. A delusion is a fixed belief in something manifestly absurd or untrue, and that can't be overcome by reason. This means that he held the conclusion as a fixed view and tried to bring forward arguments in favour of it, though without logical success. And then, of course, there are the vast swathes of people in the middle who don't have a fixed view either way. Perceived value is certainly not a fixed notion, for it varies over a host of ever-changing attributes. His songs lend themselves to other voices, they are not bound by fixed notions of gender, time or place. It is not for this column to enter the political debate over ID cards - the Government evidently has its own fixed view of their value, consultations notwithstanding. Since he has never been to Indonesia before, he did not want to come with a fixed concept, but rather to discover the new situation first. These efforts tend to see childhood as a fixed notion and not to appreciate the importance of culture within society. Art teachers can think of this activity as a means to circumvent fixed attitudes about drawing in a naturalistic mode. Taking it a step further, few news reports have examined how society's fixed notion of gender roles may determine more than just who is being bullied. Korean Buddhist thought devoted itself to philosophical reformation and the overcoming of fixed concepts from the beginning. When the general acts with a fixed view, every bit of new information is interpreted in relation to that view, and emerging possibilities are missed. That said, I believe this could work to our advantage as there tends to be a fixed expectation and image about their cars. The view that childhood is a fixed notion, determined by biological and psychological facts rather than culture or society, is implicit. He was a consummate pragmatist, but he was guided by fixed views. I mean if you're doing one thing all your life and becoming procedurally more and more adept at that one thing, then you're going to end up with quite a fixed view of things. Synonyms set, firm, inflexible, unalterable, unchangeable, immutable, unvarying, invariable, hard and fast, cast-iron 3informal (of a sports contest) having the outcome dishonestly predetermined. the fight's fixed—the ref has your card marked Example sentencesExamples All the players of the five teams who appeared in the fixed matches would be barred from playing next season and their coaches banned for a year. It is widely believed that the Chinese football league is plagued by irregularities, including unfair refereeing, fixed matches and betting. Besides anorexia and steroid abuse, there have, over the years, been rumours of fixed contests. 4fixed forinformal Situated with regard to. how's the club fixed for money now? Phrases of no fixed address (or abode) Having no place of permanent residence. a local man, of no fixed address, has been remanded in custody Example sentencesExamples A 32-year-old man, of no fixed abode, was charged with robbery in connection with last Tuesday's incident. The farmhand of no fixed abode was freed from custody yesterday after twice earlier being refused bail by district court judges. He is currently remanded in custody as if he wasn't he would be of no fixed abode. The Inspector reiterated the prosecution's previous opposition to the granting of bail, on the grounds that the accused are of no fixed abode. I have officially been of no fixed abode or employment status for seven weeks now. A 37-year-old man of no fixed abode, arrested for possession of a controlled substance and possession of an offensive weapon, was remanded into custody to appear in court tomorrow. Derivatives fixedly adverb ˈfɪksɪdli Anyway the end result was that for four hours we witnessed the odd ritual of some 2,000 people gazing fixedly at a field on which nothing was happening. Example sentencesExamples The captain was looking fixedly at the flagstones. Even if those claims prove untrue, moral culpability remains fixedly weighted against the idea that he should be able to walk away from the scandal. I stared at the doctor fixedly, all 250 pounds of me. He tapped a few keys and stared fixedly at the screen. fixedness noun ˈfɪksɪdnəsˈfɪksɪdnəs Functional fixedness, or thinking about objects only in terms of their functions, is another kind of mental set that prevents problem solving. Example sentencesExamples Continually, her approach is to question fixedness and limits, to seek unknown responses and responsibilities, to choose movement and being moved, and to enjoy the pleasure of thinking. One feels that each, in different ways, has confronted the fixedness of a poetic identity and managed to break it open, to begin again. One can't help but respect this fortepianist, though, for his courage and for the fixedness of his vision. Yet, it is precisely because of its fixedness in the landscape that, to those who see the monument, it becomes invisibly part of the landscape. adj.1 phr. Definition of fixed in US English: fixed adjectivefɪkstfikst 1Fastened securely in position. a fixed iron ladder down the port side Example sentencesExamples It is worth looking around, as you descend, to work out how on earth the original explorers managed to have fixed iron ladders meandering up the pitch. Many portholes had long been taken by souvenir-hunters, although several rows securely fixed indicated that the wreck was not quite ready to give everything away. Thread the fixed clamp jaws securely to the pipe sections. Synonyms fastened, secure, fast, firm, stable 1.1 (of a person's expression) held for a long time without changing, especially to conceal other feelings. a fixed smile Example sentencesExamples Most of her paintings were self-portraits showing her with a fixed, expressionless face staring out at viewers. The soldier just stared back at him, expression fixed and stony. She has staring eyes and a permanent pert, fixed smile. But because Mia was their first child, they assumed the fixed expression on her face was normal for a newborn baby. With painfully fixed smiles, the children kept the curious foreigners entertained for a while, and then at the end invited us to dance a traditional folk dance with them. Two young women in knee-length boots and fixed smiles are schmoozing the room. On closer inspection, the women's tight, fixed smiles betrayed the very end of patience. He's wheelchair bound, and had an eerie sort of fixed smile on his face. He seemed to carry on a silent battle, but then sighed and a fixed expression came over his face. It is then that they noticed that his eyes have a fixed expression, then when they saw him open the book in hand and move his fingers across to read the Braille and laugh to himself. Cabin crew are supposed to wear fixed smiles: she looked as gloomy as gloomy can be. He does this while staring me straight in the eye, a fixed smile on his face. Mr. Billingham's mouth, normally in a fixed smile, was as straight as the ruler Mother uses to whack me once in a while, a ruler facing horizontally. I lost my patience and I lost my fixed greeting smile. It was, as a glance around the fixed expressions in the room confirmed, a time for private thoughts. As the tape finished, the light flicked back on again, leaving me staring at my own reflection once more, my fixed expression registering even more stunned shock than before. I rushed to the mouth of my garage and stood next to Will, who was looking out with a fixed expression. His features were pale and gaunt, a fixed, haunted expression upon his face. Now there was a book that told us what really goes on behind the tall railings and fixed smiles. The eyes were always fixed ahead and regarded us only as obstacles to be sidestepped. Synonyms insincere, false, fake, vacuous 2(especially of a price, rate, or time) predetermined and not subject to or able to be changed. most trusts locked investors in for a fixed period Example sentencesExamples The advantage for the farmer is that he can plan his requirements and have guaranteed delivery of his feed inputs at a fixed price over an agreed period of time. Instead, she said the change to a fixed price agreement allowed Irish Rail more control over what methods would be used during the project. The bonds pay a fixed rate of interest, currently 3%. Fixed rates are exactly that, loans with a fixed rate of interest for an agreed period, usually two, three or five years. But even a loan with a variable interest rate may contain provision for a fixed rate period. Prior to the recent changes, this fixed price included free fruit, yoghurts and desserts. But if you think you'll be in your home for a longer period, a fixed rate may be a better choice, he says. There is no standard fixed price veterinarians must charge for certain operations, and it's a seller's market. Even homes in two of the city's most sought-after suburbs, were on the market at fixed prices. We have now changed it to a fixed price of £190,000. After paying a deposit (usually a minimum of ten per cent), you pay monthly instalments over a fixed term at a fixed rate of interest. ‘With the markets having calmed down and with fixed rates fairly highly priced, borrowers are looking more at discounts or trackers,’ she said. In the past, the greatest flexibility that mortgage holders were offered was the choice of a variable or a fixed rate. With one house in Bearsden already on the market for a fixed price of £2m, a new record is likely this year. They want me to quote a fixed price. A fixed rate of interest is applied, which is usually much higher than the general retail rate. During this period fixed rate mortgages have increased by nearly half a point to 5.97%. And some continental countries have still had house price booms despite fixed rates. In each case there is an arrangement fee of £299 with no tie-ins after the fixed rate period. These mortgages are primarily priced at a fixed rate. Synonyms predetermined, set, established, allotted, settled, prearranged, arranged, specified, decided, agreed, determined, confirmed, prescribed, decreed 2.1 (of a view or idea) held inflexibly. the fixed assumptions of the Cold War Example sentencesExamples He was a consummate pragmatist, but he was guided by fixed views. It is not for this column to enter the political debate over ID cards - the Government evidently has its own fixed view of their value, consultations notwithstanding. The fixed standpoint ossifies while the world moves on. A delusion is a fixed belief in something manifestly absurd or untrue, and that can't be overcome by reason. That said, I believe this could work to our advantage as there tends to be a fixed expectation and image about their cars. Taking it a step further, few news reports have examined how society's fixed notion of gender roles may determine more than just who is being bullied. I mean if you're doing one thing all your life and becoming procedurally more and more adept at that one thing, then you're going to end up with quite a fixed view of things. We also want to send visitors who come up with a fixed view of Highlands culture away happy. When the general acts with a fixed view, every bit of new information is interpreted in relation to that view, and emerging possibilities are missed. This means that he held the conclusion as a fixed view and tried to bring forward arguments in favour of it, though without logical success. These efforts tend to see childhood as a fixed notion and not to appreciate the importance of culture within society. Korean Buddhist thought devoted itself to philosophical reformation and the overcoming of fixed concepts from the beginning. Perceived value is certainly not a fixed notion, for it varies over a host of ever-changing attributes. Diverting off at a tangent for a second, I'm wondering if all of these unexpected phenomena indicate that I have a head full of fixed expectations that might be holding me back in other areas. Since he has never been to Indonesia before, he did not want to come with a fixed concept, but rather to discover the new situation first. His songs lend themselves to other voices, they are not bound by fixed notions of gender, time or place. The view that childhood is a fixed notion, determined by biological and psychological facts rather than culture or society, is implicit. Art teachers can think of this activity as a means to circumvent fixed attitudes about drawing in a naturalistic mode. And then, of course, there are the vast swathes of people in the middle who don't have a fixed view either way. From the moment that we are born into the world to the day in which we die, we as humans develop our own systems of fixed beliefs; paradigms that we accept as truths and therefore rarely question. Synonyms set, firm, inflexible, unalterable, unchangeable, immutable, unvarying, invariable, hard and fast, cast-iron 3informal (of a sports contest) having the outcome dishonestly predetermined. the fight's fixed—the ref has your card marked Example sentencesExamples It is widely believed that the Chinese football league is plagued by irregularities, including unfair refereeing, fixed matches and betting. All the players of the five teams who appeared in the fixed matches would be barred from playing next season and their coaches banned for a year. Besides anorexia and steroid abuse, there have, over the years, been rumours of fixed contests. 4fixed forinformal predicative Situated with regard to. how's the club fixed for money now?
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