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Fixture

noun

An object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household).

A regular patron. Synonyms: habitue, regular. "A bum who is a Central Park fixture"

The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment. Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixity, secureness.

The act of putting something in working order again. Synonyms: fix, fixing, mend, mending, repair, reparation.

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"Fixture" Quotes from Famous Books

... a double coating of metal plates with a space between, which is filled with water (see Fig. 6). The fire is now enclosed much as it is in a kitchen range. But our boiler must not be so wasteful of the heat as is that useful household fixture. On their way to the funnel the flames and hot gases should act on a very large metal or other surface in contact with the water of the boiler, in order to give up a due ...

— How it Works • Archibald Williams

... it?" said Gregory. "It will stay here, I suppose, as long as Madame von Marwitz and Karen go on caring for each other. With all my griefs and suspicions I hope that the Bouddha is a fixture." ...

— Tante • Anne Douglas Sedgwick

... fixture, whether you go or not," drily observed Wake. "Look sharp, are you coming ...

— The Master of the Shell • Talbot Baines Reed

... at first, but growing grimmer as his thoughts sped. All his life he had lived in a great city, he had been a part of its life—a discordant note in it, and yet a part of it for all that. He had been a fixture in a certain lap of luxury. That luxury had refined him. It had manicured him down to a fine point of civilization. A fine point! He wanted to laugh, but he had need of all his breath as he clip-clip-clipped on his snow shoes behind the Missioner. This ...

— The Courage of Marge O'Doone • James Oliver Curwood

... scheme for creating this false impression across the Channel that Lord Pirrie and his so-called "Ulster Liberal Association" invited Mr. Winston Churchill and the two Nationalist leaders to speak in the Ulster Hall on the 8th of February, 1912, and that the announcement of the fixture was made in the ...

— Ulster's Stand For Union • Ronald McNeill

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