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What (who) is Figure - definition
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Figures; Figure (disambiguation); Figurial; Figural
Figure
·noun To Embellish.
II. Figure ·noun To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
III. Figure ·noun To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
IV. Figure ·noun The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
V. Figure ·noun To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
VI. Figure ·noun Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
VII. Figure ·noun A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
IX. Figure ·noun A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, ·etc.
X. Figure ·noun The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
XI. Figure ·noun Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
XII. Figure ·vt To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
XIII. Figure ·noun Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.
XIV. Figure ·noun The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
XV. Figure ·noun To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
XVI. Figure ·noun A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
XVII. Figure ·noun Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
XVIII. Figure ·noun A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
XIX. Figure ·noun A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
XXI. Figure ·noun To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to Shape.
XXII. Figure ·noun The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, ·etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.
XXIII. Figure ·noun A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement.
XXIV. Figure ·noun A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides;
- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, ·etc.
figure
I. n.
1.
Form, shape, conformation, configuration, outline, tournure.
2.
Image, likeness, effigy, representation.
3.
Appearance (as respects action or conduct).
4.
Distinguished appearance.
5.
Design (on cloth, paper, etc.), pattern.
6.
(Geom.) Diagram, drawing.
7.
(Rhet.) Metaphor, trope, image, metaphorical term or expression.
8.
(Com.) Price.
9.
(Theol.) Type, emblem, symbol.
10.
(Arith.) Digit, number, numeral, character.
II. v. a.
1.
Adorn (with figures), diversify, variegate.
2.
Represent, symbolize, signify, typify, be typical of, shadow forth.
3.
Imagine, image, conceive, picture, represent, have an idea of.
4.
Make a drawing of, make a representation of.
5.
Calculate, compute, cipher.
III. v. n.
1.
Appear, act, perform, take or sustain the part of.
2.
Make a figure, make a distinguished appearance, be distinguished, be conspicuous.
3.
Show off, cut a dash, make a great show, cut a figure.
figure
['f?g?]
¦ noun
1. a number or a numerical symbol.
an amount of money.
(figures) arithmetical calculations.
2. a person of a particular kind: a public figure.
a person seen indistinctly.
an artistic representation of a human or animal form.
3. a person's bodily shape, especially that of a woman.
4. a shape defined by one or more lines in two dimensions, or one or more surfaces in three dimensions.
a diagram or illustrative drawing.
(in skating) a movement or series of movements following a prescribed pattern.
a pattern formed by the movements of a group of people, for example in country dancing, as part of a longer dance or display.
archaic external form or shape.
5. Music a short succession of notes producing a single impression.
6. Logic the form of a syllogism, classified according to the position of the middle term.
¦ verb
1. be a significant part of or contributor to something.
2. N. Amer. calculate arithmetically.
3. informal, chiefly N. Amer. think; consider.
be perfectly understandable: she supposed that figured.
(figure someone/thing out) reach an understanding of someone or something.
4. (figure on) N. Amer. informal expect (something) to happen or be the case.
5. represent in a diagram or picture.
[usu. as adjective figured] embellish with a pattern.
Derivatives
figureless adjective
Origin
ME: from OFr. figure (n.), figurer (v.), from L. figura 'figure, form'; related to fingere 'form, contrive'.
Examples of use of Figure
1. An index figure above 100 indicates positive consumer confidence, while any figure below 100 shows pessimism.
2. The father figure stands for leadership, the mother figure for nurture.
3. That figure is 20 times the figure that you cited in December at 30,000.
4. Despite her enviable knock–out figure, Walsh admits to being plagued by insecurities about her figure.
5. The figure for users worldwide was almost double the UK figure at 48.1m.