fixture
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
fixture (plural fixtures)
- (law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.
- The residence was sold with fixtures and fittings.
- A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4:
- I had to tell her all about my illness, and in return I had to endure a very long and circumstantial account of her rheumatism and her asthmatical ailments, which fortunately was interrupted by the noisy arrival of the children from the kitchen, where they had paid a visit to old Stine, a fixture in the house.
- 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
- Jones and Palin became fixtures on the booming TV satire scene, writing for, among other BBC shows, The Frost Report (1966-67) and The Kathy Kirby Show (1964), as well as the ITV comedy sketch series Do Not Adjust Your Set (1967-69).
- A lighting unit; a luminaire.
- A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
- (sports, chiefly British, Commonwealth, Ireland) A scheduled match.
- (computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
Derived terms
Translations
(law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it
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A regular patron of a place or institution
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A lighting unit; a luminaire
(sports) A scheduled match
(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests
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Further reading
- “fixture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “fixture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Verb
fixture (third-person singular simple present fixtures, present participle fixturing, simple past and past participle fixtured)
- (transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
- The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models.
- (transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match).
Etymology
Noun
fixture m (plural fixtures)
- (sports) fixture
- The whole schedule of games to be played in a championship, indicating when each game is to be played, and which team is to play at home.
- The whole list of games to be played by a given team, indicating the date of each game, and which team is to play at home.
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Synonyms
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