Definitions for pix

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pix pix

Spelling: [piks]

IPA: /pɪks/

Pix is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in pix (ipx).

Definitions for pix

noun

1. pyx.
2. a plural of pic1 .
3. pic2 .
4. a movie.
5. a photograph.
6. the scoring of 30 points in the declaration of hands and in the play before one's opponent scores a point.
7. the bonus of 30 points won for so scoring.
8. Ecclesiastical. the box or vessel in which the reserved Eucharist or Host is kept. a watch-shaped container for carrying the Eucharist to the sick.
9. Also called pyx chest. a box or chest at a mint, in which specimen coins are deposited and reserved for trial by weight and assay.

Origin of pix

First recorded in 1880-85; by shortening from picture

Examples for pix

It may also be used as pix liquida, with equal part of alcohol.

The Company's assay of the coin, or trial of the pix, a curious proceeding of great solemnity, now takes place every year.

When the pumpkins blow, I will invite all the rest and leave out pix.

It also mentions pix as a Devon imprecation, ‘a pix take him.’

"They will not tolerate us up stairs," said Anton, hurriedly, to pix.

Fat Mrs. pix enjoyed a certain sort of vogue from 1696 to 1709.

If my pix is so offensive to media critics, why do they keeping flashing the damn thing over & over?

I got in and drove to pix, a 24 hour camera shop, to get some more film.

My lady-love has some fortune, and pix thinks it would be best invested in his firm.

Nuremberg, so rich in legend, tells a story of the origin of the pix.