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fixed

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.
  4. Chemically stable.
  5. Supplied with what one needs.
    She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
  6. (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.
  7. (dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
    a fixed tomcat; the she-cat has been fixed
  8. Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
  9. (of a problem) Resolved; corrected.
  10. 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

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idler

English

Etymology

idle +? -er.

Noun

idler (plural idlers)

  1. One who idles; one who spends his or her time in inaction.
  2. One who idles; a lazy person; a sluggard.
  3. (nautical, dated) Any member of a ship's crew who is not required to keep the night-watch
  4. A mechanical device such as a pulley or wheel that does not transmit power, but supports a moving belt etc.

Synonyms

  • (lazy person): see Thesaurus:idler

Translations

Adjective

idler

  1. comparative form of idle: more idle

References

  • idler in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • idler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • Riedl, riled

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