(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.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(2) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
(3) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(4) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(5) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(6) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
(7) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(8) Mitotic figures and leukotriene B4 levels in lesions decreased 86% and 64%, respectively, after seven days of cyclosporine therapy.
(9) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(10) They urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to make air quality a higher priority and release the latest figures on premature deaths.
(11) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
(12) Of particular note is the difference between Black American and Nigerian figures.
(13) At autopsy, this DOCA-hypertensive rat was found to have a form of hepatitis associated with proliferative activity, i.e., cellular unrest, mitotic figures and oval cell hyperplasia.
(14) Okawa, who became the world's oldest person last June following the death at 116 of fellow Japanese Jiroemon Kimura , was given a cake with just three candles at her nursing home in Osaka – one for each figure in her age.
(15) If Lagarde had been placed under formal investigation in the Tapie case, it would have risked weakening her position and further embarrassing both the IMF and France by heaping more judicial worries on a key figure on the international stage.
(16) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(18) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(19) It is understood that Cooper rejected pressure from senior Labour figures last week for both her and Liz Kendall to drop out and leave the way clear for Burnham to contest Corbyn alone.
(20) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
Swash
Definition:
(v. t.) An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.
(v. t.) Soft, like fruit too ripe; swashy.
(v. i.) To dash or flow noisily, as water; to splash; as, water swashing on a shallow place.
(v. i.) To fall violently or noisily.
(v. i.) To bluster; to make a great noise; to vapor or brag.
(n.) Impulse of water flowing with violence; a dashing or splashing of water.
(n.) A narrow sound or channel of water lying within a sand bank, or between a sand bank and the shore, or a bar over which the sea washes.
(n.) Liquid filth; wash; hog mash.
(n.) A blustering noise; a swaggering behavior.
(n.) A swaggering fellow; a swasher.
Example Sentences:
(1) looking back over the series, which finished on Friday with Joe Swash crowned king of the jungle.
(2) Joe Swash's crowning as the king of the jungle brought a peak audience of 9.7 million to ITV1's I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
(3) However, as my colleague Rosie Swash detailed in her article , the thigh gap obsession is not good.
(4) Well Happy, which launched at the healthcare innovation expo on 13 March , has also been supported by various celebrities including singer Joss Stone, former Eastenders' star Joe Swash, designer Sadie Frost and actor Ralph Little.
(5) The case against Maybe ease up on the ye-olde-smugglers-yo-ho-ho-and-a-bottle-of-rum schtick: sometimes you don't want your swashes to be buckled.
(6) The Cube is for people who PVR then series-link Hole In The Wall, then need to Stain Devil urine out of their pouffe because Joe Swash was knocked into a paddling pool wearing a Bacofoil catsuit while imitating the Pharaoh Rameses.
(7) Rosie Swash Mendelssohn's Octet I cry all the time at music.
(8) I've asked Rosie Swash about the Stand By Your... rumours.
(9) Months earlier, Prigoff had travelled to Boston to photograph the Rainbow Swash, a series of bright, colorful stripes painted on a 140-foot gas storage tank in Dorchester.
(10) He hasn’t changed his hairstyle, either, though it is trying to get away from his eyebrows, and he’s wearing a cool leather jacket and generally looks ready to swash a buckle or two despite being fully 72 years old.
(11) Rufus Hound is saying goodbye, and according to Rosie Swash, the warm-up man is on.
(12) ldn.ihollaback.org Rosie Swash is a music writer for the Guardian
(13) I had a problem with my antiquated machine (it's so old some of the keys have their letters written in pen) but that's all over now... 7.01pm: So as guests pass up the red carpet scramble for their seats (our v own Rosie Swash has blagged her way into the hall and should be keeping us updated with gossip - or at least what's she's eating for dinner) time to update you as to what to expect tonight.
(14) Swash suggested that progressive denervation of the stretched pelvic sphincter musculature that occurs in genuine stress incontinence is due to repeated stretch injury of the innervation of these muscles when the pelvic floor diaphragm is weak.
(15) Rosie Swash will be here to take you through the night’s fashion thrills and fails, whereas I (Tim Jonze) will be keeping you updated with any gossip from the O2 and perhaps even some interesting facts about tonight’s ceremony.
(16) Prigoff explained his Rainbow Swash incident, the only thing that came to mind from Boston that he reasoned could have prompted Ayaz's contact.
(17) This column has always given a big thumbs-up to Madame Caryn Franklin , but her contention in Swash's piece that young women aspiring to unachievable physical ideals is a new development won't quite do.
(18) As it happens, the Rainbow Swash is readily visible on Google Images.
(19) Spokesman Jason Holmes told the Guardian's Rosie Swash that almost 15,000 vehicles have already arrived on site and that "excitement levels are high" ahead of the England v Slovenia match this afternoon.
(20) This beat last year's final, which peaked at 9.7 million and saw Joe Swash crowned King of the Jungle .