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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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