fixture
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]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[1]:
- 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
[edit]Translations
[edit](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
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(computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests
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work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry
Further reading
[edit]- “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
[edit]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).
- 2009 January 30, AAP, “Zimbabwe cricket head Chingoka refused entry to Australia”, in Herald Sun[2]:
- Other items to be discussed include fixturing from 2012 onwards, preparations for this year's scheduled Champions Trophy and the Indian Cricket League's bid for recognition from the ICC.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English fixture.
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]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.
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