Word Meanings - FIXTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person

Additional info about word: FIXTURE

Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others. Wharton . Bouvier. Note: This word is frequently substituted for fixure (formerly the word in common use) in new editions of old works. (more info) 1. That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take away. 2. State of being fixed; fixedness. The firm fixture of thy foot. Shak.

Related words: (words related to FIXTURE)

• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• PECULIARNESS
  The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
• PERSONATE
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• PERSONATOR
  One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• PECULIARLY
  In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.
• ANNEXATIONIST
  One who favors annexation.
• PERSONAL
  Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• SESQUITERTIAL
  Sesquitertian.
• SESQUITERTIAN; SESQUITERTIANAL
  Having the ratio of one and one third to one .
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• UNIPERSONAL
  Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
• MESQUITE BEAN
  The pod or seed of the mesquite.