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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

... and, uncomely block as he was, Rankin was of the true type. But for some reason, a reason known to none of his associates, he had chosen to come to the West. Some consideration or other had caused him to stop at his present abode, and had made him apparently a fixture in the midst of this ...

— Ben Blair - The Story of a Plainsman • Will Lillibridge

... slowly being overcome. When a man like Curtiss, who has attained great success with biplanes, gives serious attention to the monoplane form of construction and goes so far as to build and successfully operate a single surface machine, it may be taken for granted that the monoplane is a fixture ...

— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell

... like to think of them. You see, it takes years to collect a real train of admirers, and it argues that a girl is a fixture. That's something I won't be. I'm beginning to feel like one of the sights of the city, such as Bernie points out to his Northern tourists. Of course, you're the exception. I don't think we've ever ...

— The Net • Rex Beach

... bed, hugging her shoulders against the chill of the room and looking at her theatre gown, that—in default of a clean closet—she had hung from the gas fixture the night before. From the direction of the kitchen came the sounds of the newly engaged "girl" making the fire for breakfast, while through the register a thin wisp of blue smoke curled upward to prove that the "hired man" was tinkering with the unused furnace. The room ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

... to think me a fixture," says Hardinge, with a somewhat embarrassed laugh, flinging himself into ...

— A Little Rebel • Mrs. Hungerford

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