different between fixed vs cured

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst

Verb

fixed

1. simple past tense and past participle of fix

Adjective

fixed (comparative more fixed, superlative most fixed)

1. 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.

2. Stationary.
3. Attached; affixed.
5. Chemically stable.
6. Supplied with what one needs.

   She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.

7. (law) 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.

8. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

   a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed

9. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
10. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
11. Repaired

Synonyms

• (not able to be changed, staying the same): stable, immobile

Antonyms

• (not able to be changed, staying the same): mobile

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• broken
• crooked
• bribe

Anagrams

• defix

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: kyo?ord, kyûrd, IPA^(key): /kj??d/, /kj?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kj??d/, /kj??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d, -??(?)d, -??(?)d

Verb

cured

1. simple past tense and past participle of cure

Derived terms

• dry-cured

Anagrams

• Druce, Ducre, crude