figure

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A drawing or diagram conveying information.

2. 2

   The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving,…

   The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.

   • a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
   • a coin that bears the figure of an angel
   • Ever since I was a young’n and my dad gave me a Godzilla figure, I’ve been a huge fan of the big green lizard from the Land of the Rising Sun.
3. 3

   A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.

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   1. 4

      The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.

      • He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
      • I made some figure there.
      • gentlemen of the best figure in the county
   2. 5

      Distinguished appearance

      Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.

      • that he may live in figure and indulgence
   3. 6

      A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to

      A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.

      • The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.
      • She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection.
   4. 7

      A numeral.

   5. 8

      A number, an amount.

      • (i) in the 1966 edition of The Destruction of Dresden Irving contended that 135,000 were estimated authoritatively to have been killed and further contended that the documentation suggested a figure between 100,00 and 250,000;
   6. 9

      A shape.

      • a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure
      • Flowers have all exquisite figures.
      • And these were not human shapes, or the shapes of anything I recognised as alive in the world, but outlines of fire that traced globes, triangles, crosses, and the luminous bodies of various geometrical figures.
   7. 10

      A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.

      • The muslin was of a pretty figure.
   8. 11

      Any complex dance moveᵂ.

      • Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.
   9. 12

      A figure of speech.

      • to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing
   10. 13

       The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.

   11. 14

       A horoscope

       A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.

       • its quality, like those of all the rest, is determined by its position in the house of the astrological figure
   12. 15

       Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a…

       Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.

   13. 16

       A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage

       A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

   14. 17

       To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.

   15. 18

       To come to understand.

       • I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
   16. 19

       To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.

       • 1. Gent. Thou art alwayes figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error, I am sound.
       • “I know you figure me for a leftneck fool, correct?”
   17. 20

       To be reasonable or predictable.

       • It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
   18. 21

       To enter into

       To enter into; to be a part of.

       • It is the transcontinental trains which figure most prominently in railway advertising. Both railways run two trains in each direction.
       • The exchange rate figures heavily in several other aspects of Venezuela's economy.
   19. 22

       To represent in a picture or drawing.

   20. 23

       To represent by a figure, as to form or mould

       To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.

       • If love, alas! be pain; the pain I bear, / No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.
   21. 24

       To embellish with design

       To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.

       • The vaulty top of heaven / Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.
   22. 25

       To indicate by numerals.

       • 1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
   23. 26

       To represent by a metaphor

       To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

       • whose white vestments figure innocence
   24. 27

       To prefigure

       To prefigure; to foreshow.

       • His loftie browes in foldes, do figure death, And in their ſmoothneſſe, amitie and life:
       • In this the heaven figures some event.
   25. 28

       To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the…

       To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

   26. 29

       To embellish.

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