Word Meanings - STAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To be fixed or set; to stay.

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• 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
• FIXING
  Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl.
• FIXURE
  Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak.
• FIXEDLY
  In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
• FIXATION
  1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of
• FIXABLE
  Capable of being fixed.
• FIXIDITY
  Fixedness. Boyle.
• FIXATIVE
  That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
• FIXITY
  1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. Sir I. Newton.
• FIXEDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness. 2. The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.
• FIX
  Fixed; solidified. Chaucer.
• FIXED
  Stable; non-volatile. Fixed air , carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic. -- Fixed alkali , a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• AFFIXION
  Affixture. T. Adams.
• CONFIXURE
  Act of fastening.
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• SUFFIX
  A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
• TRANSFIX
  To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
• PERFIX
  To fix surely; to appoint.
• CRUCIFIXION
  1. The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment. 2. The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross. 3.
• TRANSFIXION
  The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced. Bp. Hall.
• SUFFIXION
  The act of suffixing, or the state of being suffixed.
• ANTEFIX
  An ornament fixed upon a frieze. An ornament at the eaves, concealing the ends of the joint tiles of the roof. An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.
• SUFFIXMENT
  Suffixion. Earle.
• CRUCIFIX
  LL. crucifixum, fr. L. crux, crucis, cross + figere, fixum, to fix. 1. A representation in art of the figure of Christ upon the cross; esp., the sculptured figure affixed to a real cross of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, used by the