figure

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

figures

1.
A drawing or diagram conveying information.
2.
The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
3.
A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
4.
The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.
5.
(obsolete)Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
6.
A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
7.
A numeral.
8.
A number, an amount.
9.
A shape.
a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure
10.
A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
The muslin was of a pretty figure.
11.
Any complex dance moveᵂ.
12.
A figure of speech.

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verb

V_es/s

figures

V_ing/Gerund

figuring

V_ed/pp

figured

1.
(US)(chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
2.
(US)(chiefly US) To come to understand.
I can’t figure if he’s telling the truth or lying.
3.
To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
4.
(US, intransitive)(chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
5.
(intransitive)To enter into; to be a part of.
6.
(transitive)To represent in a picture or drawing.
7.
(obsolete)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.
8.
To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
9.
(obsolete)To indicate by numerals.
1698 , John Dryden, Epitaph of Mary Frampton As through a crystal glass the figured hours are seen.
10.
To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
11.
(obsolete)To prefigure; to foreshow.
12.
(music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.

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ine-pro From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra, from fingō (to form, shape, mold, fashion), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (to mold, shape, form, knead). Cognate with τεῖχος,, dāg dough. More at dough. figura.