Synonyms for fixture
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fiks-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪks tʃər |
Définition of fixture
Origin :- 1590s, "act of fixing," perhaps from fix (v.) on model of mixture. Meaning "anything fixed or securely fastened" is from 1812.
- noun fitting, appliance
- The door was no more a part and fixture of that home than she was.
- Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- We then get a more definite idea of the nut, which was in most cases a fixture.
- Extract from : « The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use » by Henry Saint-George
- Dinner alone was a "fixture;" everything else was at the caprice of each.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- To be sure, everybody spoke to him as though he were a fixture in the land.
- Extract from : « In Happy Valley » by John Fox
- She regarded herself, as did all the better-class employees, as a fixture.
- Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
- Camerino was always there; he was a sort of fixture in the house.
- Extract from : « The Diary of a Man of Fifty » by Henry James
- It has had set on it recently an iron frame or fixture for a gas-lamp.
- Extract from : « Customs and Fashions in Old New England » by Alice Morse Earle
- He was very faithful and responsible, and soon became a fixture on the place.
- Extract from : « Cricket at the Seashore » by Elizabeth Westyn Timlow
- With two sticks, I can hobble about the house and garden; without them, behold me a fixture.
- Extract from : « Rita » by Laura E. Richards
- Graves's pet was as much a fixture of Graves's house as the front door.
- Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
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