The difference between Animate and Fixed

When used as adjectives, animate means that which lives, whereas fixed means not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

Animate is also verb with the meaning: to impart motion or the appearance of motion to.

check bellow for the other definitions of Animate and Fixed

  1. Animate as an adjective:

    That which lives.

  2. Animate as an adjective:

    Possessing the quality or ability of motion.

  3. Animate as an adjective:

    Dynamic, energetic.

    Examples:

    "She is an engaging and animate speaker."

  4. Animate as an adjective (grammar, of a noun or pronoun):

    Having a referent that includes a human, animal, plant or other entity which is considered alive.

    Examples:

    "Nouns can be singular or plural, and one of two genders, animate or inanimate."

  5. Animate as an adjective (grammar):

    Inflected to agree with an animate noun or pronoun.

  1. Animate as a verb (transitive):

    To impart motion or the appearance of motion to.

    Examples:

    "If we animate the model, we can see the complexity of the action."

  2. Animate as a verb (transitive):

    To give spirit or vigour to; to stimulate or enliven; to inspirit.

  1. Fixed as a verb:

  1. Fixed as an adjective:

    Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.

    Examples:

    "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. Fixed as an adjective:

    Stationary.

  3. Fixed as an adjective:

    Attached; affixed.

  4. Fixed as an adjective:

    Chemically stable.

  5. Fixed as an adjective:

    Supplied with what one needs.

    Examples:

    "She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements."

  6. Fixed as an adjective (legal):

    Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.

    Examples:

    "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. Fixed as an adjective (dialectal, informal):

    Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).

    Examples:

    "a fixed tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been fixed'"

  8. Fixed as an adjective:

    Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.

  9. Fixed as an adjective (of a [[problem]]):

    Resolved; corrected.

  10. Fixed as an adjective:

    Repaired

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