Synonyms:
stationary
Meaning: not capable of being moved; "stationary machinery"
Synonyms:
stationary
Meaning: standing still; "the car remained stationary with the engine running"
Usage examples
Probably the hamlet has now finished with its nomadic existence, and has definitely become stationary.
It may not look like common sense to say that these things had been stationary over the town of Bath, several days--
By this time the top of the dome was quite under water and suddenly the island stopped sinking and became stationary.
Throwing out, therefore, a quantity of sand from a canvas bag, which, he lifted with great difficulty, he became stationary in an instant.
It is said that in the world, in 1870, three and one half million horse-power was furnished by stationary engines, ten millions by locomotives.
He occasionally astounded his companions by such glimpses of occult science as that the world is round and that the sun is relatively stationary.
The two officiating human beings, safe at the stationary centre, and himself, just outside the circle of operation, alone remained untouched and unaffected.
He was interested in John Barton's mission to Glasgow, and wanted to hear all about it; so he sat down, and made himself comfortable, in a manner that Mary saw was meant to be stationary.
Yet one small link remained that held him to some kind of consciousness of earthly things: he never lost sight of this--that, being just outside the circle of evocation, he was safe, and that the man and woman, being stationary in its untouched centre, were also safe.
To the ephemeral insects whose lifetime is an hour, a year might seem an awful period, the mid-day sun might seem an almost stationary body, the changes of the seasons would be unknown, everything but the most fleeting and rapid changes would appear permanent and at rest.