Philip is in office and see a bulletin board with "football fixtures".
fixture ['fýkstʃə]
noun
1 an object firmly fixed in place, esp. a household appliance

2 a person or thing regarded as fixed in a particular place or position

3 (Property law) an article attached to land and regarded as part of it

4 a device to secure a workpiece in a machine tool

5 (Chiefly Brit)a a sports match or social occasion
b the date of such an event


6 (rare)
the act of fixing
[ETYMOLOGY: 17th Century: from Late Latin fixura a fastening (with -t- by analogy with mixture)]
'fixtureless adjective

Apparently def.#5 fits

Well, would a 'fixtureless adjective' be one that added nothing to the modified noun? How interesting!

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2 a person or thing regarded as fixed in a particular place or position

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But that is my favorite of all these definitions for 'fixture' because it is fun associating people with objects somehow... Appeals to the Disney in me...

Dear WW: reminds me of patient whose baby my wife delivered.
As soon as the umbilical cord had been clamped, my wife showed the baby to the mother and jokingly asked if he looked like his father. The patient, still a bit inebriated from the ether, said groggily: "He's got my features but his father's fixtures."

Ha! Amazing to think that people's senses of humor and verbal agility are so quick, even after etherized delivery.

In vino veritas.