figure
IPA: fˈɪgjɝ
noun
- 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 or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
- (obsolete) 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.
- Any complex dance moveᵂ.
- A figure of speech.
- (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
- (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
- (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
- (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
verb
- (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
- (chiefly US) To come to understand.
- To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
- (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
- (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
- (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
- (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.
- To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
- (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
- To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
- (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
- (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
- (music) To embellish.
Advertisement
Examples of "figure" in Sentences
- The title figure, King Cymbeline, is significantly like Lear.
- The title figure of Shakespeare's play is referred to as 'black Othello'.
- Even the title figure Clooney portrays does not eagerly don his superhero cape.
- Reason it rocks: The fact that the main figure is screaming his throat raw with the headliners of the issue is enough for me.
- The narrative, spelled out in the program, tells the story of the title figure, a rebellious spirit who leads his fellow gladiators against the oppressive army of Imperial Rome.
- If Mr. Welch's choreography has anything more to it than a relentless series of dancers stepping into arabesque pose to pause as if in standard classroom exercises, it would be in the duets arranged for his title figure and the men in her life.
- Here, Piper as he is mostly known is now a powerful general, and discovers something about his past, who he is, and a powerful sorcerer or two including the title figure as he is ordered into the field by a waning Patriarch to make war on the infidel.
- Now, since the recurring decimal. [.9] is equal to 9/9, and therefore to 1, it is evident that, although the clown who bears the figure 1 is absent, the man who bears the figure 9 by this simple artifice has for the occasion given his _figure_ the value of the
- Hence, when we acquire the idea of solidity, we acquire at the same time the idea of FIGURE; and this idea of figure, or motion of _a part_ of the organ of touch, exactly resembles _in its figure_ the figure of the body that occasions it; and thus exactly acquaints us with this property of the external world.
Advertisement
Advertisement