Synonyms for fixtures
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : fiks-cher |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪks tʃər |
Définition of fixtures
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
- There are no fixtures to men, if we appeal to consciousness.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As a matter of fact, the only fixtures were the cook and second girl.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- The amount of leakage is, therefore, in direct proportion to the number of fixtures.
- Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden
- Between the soil-pipe and the fixtures a trap must be provided with a water-seal of about an inch.
- Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden
- I must say that any mention of fixtures has always bored me intensely.
- Extract from : « Once a Week » by Alan Alexander Milne
- Tomlinson had bought the White Horse and secured Eliza with the fixtures.
- Extract from : « The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley » by Louis Tracy
- But the fixtures on the train for carrying this cot were far from perfection.
- Extract from : « Some Naval Yarns » by Mordaunt Hall
- The top-gallant masts can also be lowered, but the lower-masts, of course, are fixtures.
- Extract from : « Man on the Ocean » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Most of the fixtures left in the saloons, an' there was a plenty of them.
- Extract from : « Rimrock Trail » by J. Allan Dunn
- The first thing to note in Fig. 46 is the number and kinds of fixtures to be drained.
- Extract from : « Elements of Plumbing » by Samuel Dibble
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