Figure

Definition:

  • (n.) The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
  • (n.) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
  • (n.) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
  • (n.) Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.
  • (n.) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
  • (n.) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
  • (n.) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
  • (n.) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
  • (n.) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
  • (n.) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.
  • (n.) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
  • (n.) To prefigure; to foreshow.
  • (n.) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
  • (n.) To embellish.
  • (v. t.) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicious; as, the envoy figured at court.
  • (v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.

Compare figure with other words:

figure vs. play

body vs. figure

figure vs. table

characteristic vs. figure

figure vs. fixure

figure vs. ligure

figure vs. figured

digram vs. figure

connect vs. figure

figure vs. personality

figure vs. personage

figure vs. silhouette

figure vs. illustration

figure vs. symbol

figure vs. presume

figure vs. suppose

figure vs. portray

figure vs. maxim

figure vs. stature

figure vs. moreen

figure vs. keraunograph

figure vs. refigure

figure vs. oblongum

figure vs. tournure

figure vs. understand

figure vs. picture

calculate vs. figure

colleague vs. figure

demonstration vs. figure

exhibit vs. figure

consider vs. figure

authority vs. figure

figure vs. sum

figure vs. ponder

figure vs. statue

figure vs. model

elephant vs. figure

figure vs. phrase

figure vs. statistic

figure vs. sector

fact vs. figure

chart vs. figure

figure vs. image

figural vs. figure

figure vs. lithophane

dirigent vs. figure

diamonded vs. figure

figure vs. oblatum

figure vs. pentahedron

figurate vs. figure

figure vs. zebrawood

figure vs. superpose

centrode vs. figure

figure vs. sunburst

figure vs. sulphide

figure vs. miniaturist

figure vs. trihedron

figure vs. orris

figure vs. planimeter

figure vs. polygram

figure vs. swash

figure vs. marmoset

arabesque vs. figure

diagram vs. figure

figure vs. word

figure vs. think

figure vs. holder

figure vs. quadrature

figure vs. quadrable

figure vs. nought

figure vs. topology

figure vs. footing

asterism vs. figure

figure vs. supporter

figure vs. waxwork

figure vs. sculpture

figure vs. orthogon

condor vs. figure

figure vs. outline

construct vs. figure

bosh vs. figure

figure vs. generate

diaphane vs. figure

figure vs. semblance

figure vs. fore

centrepiece vs. figure