Word.ws English Dictionary

fixture

UK/ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə//ˈfɪks.t͡ʃɚ/

fixture noun: 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.

Noun

fixture (plural fixtures)

  1. 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.
  2. A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place.
    • 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...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 4
    • 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).2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian
  3. A lighting unit; a luminaire.
  4. A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
  5. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) A scheduled match.
  6. A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.

Verb

fixture (third-person singular simple present fixtures, present participle fixturing, simple past and past participle fixtured)

  1. (transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture.
    • The device is available in both handheld and fixtured models.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, transitive) To schedule (a match).
    • 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.2009 January 30, AAP, “Zimbabwe cricket head Chingoka refused entry to Australia”, in Herald Sun

fixture meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

fixture in Hindi

फिक्स्चर

fixture in Tamil

அமைப்பு, நிலை பொருத்தி, விளையாட்டு நிரல், நிலையுறுதி

fixture in Urdu

فکسچر, فکسچرنگ

fixture in Bengali

ফিক্সচার
More languagesFewer languages
fixture in Telugu
ఫిక్చర్
fixture in Malayalam
സ്ഥാപിക്കൽ, ഉറപ്പിക്കൽ, സ്ഥിരമായി ഉറപ്പിച്ച വസ്തു
fixture in Kannada
ಕೂಡಿಕೆ
fixture in Punjabi
ਫਿਕਸਚਰ, ਫਿੱਕਸਚਰ, ਫਿੱਕਚਰ
fixture in Gujarati
ફિક્સ્ચર
fixture in Odia
ଫିକ୍ସଟ୍ଯ଼ୁରିଙ୍ଗ
fixture in Nepali
फिक्स्चर, फिक्चर, फिक्चरिङ
fixture in Malay
lekapan
fixture in Indonesian
instalasi

Examples of fixture in a sentence

  • I washed all the gunk off the light fixture, and found that it was white, not brown.
  • She installed the whole fixture while he simply watched from the sidelines.
  • I used a nonabrasive cleanser to clean the porcelain fixtures because I didn't want to scratch them.

All 40 example sentences with fixture

Forms of fixture

Noun
pluralfixtures
Verb
third-person singular presentfixtures
present participlefixturing
past participlefixtured
pastfixtured

Plural of fixture: fixtures

Origin of fixture

Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture.

Words formed from fixture

Questions about fixture

What does fixture mean?
Fixture means 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.
What is fixture in Hindi?
Fixture in Hindi is फिक्स्चर. See Fixture meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is fixture?
Fixture can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce fixture?
Fixture is pronounced /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/ (UK).
What is the plural of fixture?
The plural of fixture is fixtures.

Words near fixture in the dictionary

  1. fixosessile
  2. fixpoint
  3. fixpoints
  4. FIXs
  5. fixt
  6. fixture
  7. fixtured
  8. fixtureless
  9. fixtures
  10. fixturing
  11. fixturings

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fixture (page history and authors); fixture (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fixture (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fixture (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fixture (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fixture (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-us-fixture.ogg.

Cite this entry: “fixture.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fixture. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.