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fixture

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fixture , as a legal concept, means any physical property that is permanently attached ( fixed ) to real property (usually land) Property not affixed to real property is considered chattel property. Fixtures are treated as a part of real property, particularly ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household) a regular patron; "an habitue of the racetrack"; "a bum who is a Central Park fixture" [syn: regular , habitue ] the quality of being fixed in place [syn: fastness , fixedness , fixity , secureness ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES permanent fixture (= someone or something that is always there ) ▪ Miller soon became a permanent fixture on the team. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE permanent ▪ But a room divider doesn't have to be a permanent ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context legal English) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it. 2 A regular patron of a place or institution. 3 A lighting unit; a ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "act of fixing," perhaps from fix (v.) on model of mixture , or from an assumed Latin *fixitatem . Meaning "anything fixed or securely fastened" is from 1812, an alteration of fixure (c.1600).

Usage examples of fixture.

They darted inside the shattered door and found themselves in an antechamber that had probably once served as an office for this warehouse, lit by a pair of gas fixtures above the fireplace.

But when the engineer had gone and Evermore fishtailed to reposition the piece in the fixture, he wondered too what the purpose was of the device that Ratline had given him to make.

They were fixtures, part of the trappings of royalty, as much as the gilded sconces and the elegant tapestries.

Suffice it that he did, everything included, the big godowns on the quais, shipping rights, the goodwill, stock and fixtures, and the old compradore, Li Yuan Chang.

And, though she got no respect from Gurt, the waitress was a constant fixture in her life.

The canopy above the bed, the stained glass fixtures, and the heavy hopsack covers on the chairs, these clearly were from another time.

The lights, detecting movement, flooded the lavatory, shining brilliantly on the white tiles, sialon fixtures, and mirrors.

He pulled a mask of smoke-blackened oily parchment over his face to protect his eyes, then felt for the lamp fixture and its thumbscrew, while Brother Kornhoer watched him nervously from below.

They were directed to face the bench, where they wefe joined by their attorney, Pope Herring, a courthouse fixture for twenty years.

He and the baronet had a conference together one day, and from that time Adrian became a fixture in the Abbey.

He followed her into a room furnished in the Victorian manner with a bright carpet, plush curtains, a handsome solid couch and chairs, a fixture once devoted to gas but now converted to electricity in the middle of the ceiling, and a great variety of enlarged photographs, photogravures and china ornaments which combined uselessness and ugliness to a remarkable degree.

The doors to the procreation center slid open at their approach, revealing a foyer that was stark and unadorned, illuminated by lighting fixtures set in a double helix pattern in the ceiling.

Spread like a starfish, the Beaverwood building contained long, gloomy corridors, with lighting fixtures feeble and far between.

Suffice it that he did, everything included, the big godowns on the quais, shipping rights, the goodwill, stock and fixtures, and the old compradore, Li Yuan Chang.

The walls, the paneling, the pervasive heaviness of nearly new fixtures, the colossal firedogs, the walk-in fireplaces of bright new stone referred back through the centuries to a time of lonely castles in mute forests.