Definitions for fixture

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fixture fix·ture

Spelling: [fiks-cher]

IPA: /ˈfɪks tʃər/

Fixture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 115 anagrams from letters in fixture (efirtux).

Definitions for fixture

noun

1. something securely, and usually permanently, attached or appended, as to a house, apartment building, etc.:
2. a person or thing long established in the same place or position.
3. Machinery. any of various devices for holding work in a machine tool, especially one for machining in a straight line, as in a planer or milling machine. any of various devices for holding parts in certain positions during welding, assembly, etc.
4. Law. a movable chattel, as a machine or heating plant, that, by reason of annexation to real property and adaptation to continuing use in connection with the realty, is considered a part of the realty.
5. Fox Hunting. one of a series of meets scheduled by a hunt to take place at a time and location listed on a card (fixture card) that is sent, usually once a month, to each member of a hunt.
6. the act of fixing.
7. British. an event that takes place regularly.

Origin of fixture

1590-1600; variant of obsolete fixure (Late Latin fixūra; see fix, -ure), with -t- from mixture

Examples for fixture

Since Bridesmaids, McCarthy has been a fixture at the box office, with at least one new starring vehicle every year.

She regarded herself, as did all the better-class employees, as a fixture.

The door was no more a part and fixture of that home than she was.

In 1998, he became a regular Tuesday fixture, assisting viewers in relationship issues and offering general life advice.

Carter has also been a fixture on boards and expert panels, in think tanks and at universities.

The energy economy has always been a fixture of Texas life, and that has not changed.

And in California, where carports are already common, solar canopies have become a fixture.

Dinner alone was a "fixture;" everything else was at the caprice of each.

We then get a more definite idea of the nut, which was in most cases a fixture.

To be sure, everybody spoke to him as though he were a fixture in the land.