figure.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
Meaning & usage
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
A person, thing, or action representative of another
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
A numeral.
A number, an amount.
A shape.
A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
The muslin was of a pretty figure.
Any complex dance moveᵂ.
A figure of speech.
The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.
To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
To come to understand.
I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
We can figure on running a loss this year.
To be reasonable or predictable.
It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
To enter into; to be a part of.
To represent in a picture or drawing.
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.
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
To indicate by numerals.
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
To prefigure; to foreshow.
To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
To embellish.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.
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