FIXTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fixture mean? 

• FIXTURE (noun)
  The noun FIXTURE has 4 senses:

1. an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)

2. a regular patron

3. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

4. the act of putting something in working order again

  Familiarity information: FIXTURE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIXTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("fixture" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixture"):

bathroom fixture (any fixture in a bathroom)

lighting fixture (a fixture providing artificial light)

plumbing fixture (a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building)

soap dish (a bathroom or kitchen fixture for holding a bar of soap)

Derivation:

fix (cause to be firmly attached)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A regular patron

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

fixture; habitue; regular

Context example:

a bum who is a Central Park fixture

Hypernyms ("fixture" is a kind of...):

frequenter; patron (a regular customer)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness

Hypernyms ("fixture" is a kind of...):

immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixture"):

lodgement; lodging; lodgment (the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily)

Derivation:

fix (cause to be firmly attached)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of putting something in working order again

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fix; fixing; fixture; mend; mending; repair; reparation

Hypernyms ("fixture" is a kind of...):

improvement (the act of improving something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fixture"):

darning (the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads)

patching (the act of mending a hole in a garment by sewing a patch over it)

care; maintenance; upkeep (activity involved in maintaining something in good working order)

band aid; quick fix; quickie; quicky (hurried repair)

restoration (the act of restoring something or someone to a satisfactory state)

reconstruction (the activity of constructing something again)

restitution (the act of restoring something to its original state)

Derivation:

fix (restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken)

 Context examples 

Ay—ay—he's in England; he can't get out of England, I fancy—he's a fixture now.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Or could these cyclones, each nearly as wide as the continental U.S., be more permanent fixtures?

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

It was vain to try to read with such an inscrutable fixture before me; nor could I, in impatience, consent to be dumb; he might rebuff me if he liked, but talk I would.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)