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Figure   /fˈɪgjər/   Listen
Figure

noun
1.
A diagram or picture illustrating textual material.  Synonym: fig.
2.
Alternative names for the body of a human being.  Synonyms: anatomy, bod, build, chassis, flesh, form, frame, human body, material body, physical body, physique, shape, soma.  "He has a strong physique" , "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak"
3.
One of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration.  Synonym: digit.
4.
A model of a bodily form (especially of a person).
5.
A well-known or notable person.  Synonyms: name, public figure.  "She is an important figure in modern music"
6.
A combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape.
7.
An amount of money expressed numerically.
8.
The impression produced by a person.  "A heroic figure"
9.
The property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals.  Synonym: number.  "The number of parameters is small" , "The figure was about a thousand"
10.
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.  Synonyms: figure of speech, image, trope.
11.
A unitary percept having structure and coherence that is the object of attention and that stands out against a ground.
12.
A decorative or artistic work.  Synonyms: design, pattern.
13.
A predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating.
verb
(past & past part. figured; pres. part. figuring)
1.
Judge to be probable.  Synonyms: calculate, count on, estimate, forecast, reckon.
2.
Be or play a part of or in.  Synonym: enter.  "How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?"
3.
Imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind.  Synonyms: envision, fancy, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize.  "I can see what will happen" , "I can see a risk in this strategy"
4.
Make a mathematical calculation or computation.  Synonyms: calculate, cipher, compute, cypher, reckon, work out.
5.
Understand.



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"Figure" Quotes from Famous Books



... was under observation from the two mysterious iron towers in Wingles. Beyond Fort Glatz, the engineers had a store of trench materials. The place was called "Crucifix Dump," on account of the large crucifix which stood there on a mound of earth. The figure on the crucifix was made of metal and it had been struck by shrapnel. It looked so pathetic standing there amid the ruin and desolation around, mutely saying to those who had ears to hear, "Is it nothing to you, all ye who pass by; behold and see if there was ever sorrow like unto ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... to be hoped that the figure for the double-flat suggested by Mattheson (who also suggested the St. Andrew's cross ([symbol]) for the double-sharp) may some time be readopted. This figure was the Greek letter B, made thus, [Greek: b], ...
— Music Notation and Terminology • Karl W. Gehrkens
... express and not to suppress truth. But the poison that has crept through the minds of our finer folk paralyses their utterance so far as truth is concerned; and society may be fairly caricatured by a figure of the Father of Lies blinking through an immense ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... red flushed all over his face. He took two steps down the aisle, and caught the little figure ...
— Stories of a Western Town • Octave Thanet
... rustics laboring, or playing on their pipes; sheep bleating; lambs skipping; the sea, and a scene of fish and fishing; little naked cupids laughing, playing, and pelting each other with apples; and, on the summit, a female figure, turning with the slightest breath, and thence denominated the wind's attendant. 8. The Phrygian shepherd presenting to Venus the prize of beauty, the apple of discord. 9. The incomparable statue of Helen, which is delineated by Nicetas in the ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 6 • Edward Gibbon


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