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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIX'ED, pp. Settled; established; firm; fast; stable.
Fixed air, an invisible and permanently elastic fluid, heavier than common air and fatal to animal life, produced from the combustion of carbonaceous bodies, as wood or charcoal, and by artificial processes; called also aerial acid, cretaceous acid, and more generally, carbonic acid.
Fixed bodies, are those which bear a high heat without evaporation or volatilization.
Fixed stars, are such stars as always retain the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, and are thus distinguished from planets and comets, which are revolving bodies.
Fixed oils, such as are obtained by simple pressure, and are not readily volatilized; so called in distinction from volatile or essential oils.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: (of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
2: fixed and unmoving; "with eyes set in a fixed glassy stare"; "his bearded face already has a set hollow look"- Connor Cruise O'Brien; "a face rigid with pain" [syn: fixed, set, rigid]
3: securely placed or fastened or set; "a fixed piece of wood"; "a fixed resistor" [ant: unfixed]
4: incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: fixed, frozen]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. securely placed or fastened ; stationary b. (1) nonvolatile (2) formed into a chemical compound c. (1) not subject to change or fluctuation <a fixed income> (2) firmly set in the mind <a fixed idea> (3) having a final or crystallized form or character (4) recurring on the same date from year to year <fixed holidays> d. immobile, concentrated <a fixed stare> 2. supplied with something (as money) needed <comfortably fixed> • fixedly adverb • fixedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fix Fix, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fixed (f[i^]kst); p. pr. & vb. n. Fixing.] [Cf. F. fixer.] 1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite. An ass's nole I fixed on his head. --Shak. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. --Herbert. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. --Ps. cxii. 7. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. --Milton. 2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. --Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. --Young. 3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] --Sandys. 4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. --Abney. 5. To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room. [Colloq. U.S.] 6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. Syn: To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle; determine.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fixed Fixed (f[i^]kst), a. 1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable. 2. (Chem.) Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia. Fixed ammunition (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading. Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery. Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc. Fixed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4. Fixed fact, a well established fact. [Colloq.] Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light. Fixed oils (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not be distilled unchanged; -- distinguished from volatile or essential oils. Fixed pivot (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels. Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. You use fixed to describe something which stays the same and does not or cannot vary. They issue a fixed number of shares that trade publicly... Tickets will be printed with fixed entry times... Many restaurants offer fixed-price menus. = set ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. If you say that someone has fixed ideas or opinions, you mean that they do not often change their ideas and opinions, although perhaps they should. ...people who have fixed ideas about things. ? flexible ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. If someone has a fixed smile on their face, they are smiling even though they do not feel happy or pleased. I had to go through the rest of the evening with a fixed smile on my face. ADJ 4. Someone who is of no fixed address, or in British English no fixed abode, does not have a permanent place to live. (FORMAL) They are not able to get a job interview because they have no fixed address... He's of no fixed abode and we found him on the streets. PHRASE: of/with PHR, v PHR 5. see also fix

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