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Definition figure

Etymology

From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin fig?ra (�form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing�), from fing? (�to form, shape, mold, fashion�), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ey??- (�to mold, shape, form, knead�). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (te�khos), Sanskrit ?????? (degdhi), Old English d?g (�dough�). More at dough.

Noun

figure (plural 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.
3. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
4. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
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.
10. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
11. Any complex dance move.
12. A figure of speech.
13. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
14. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
15. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
16. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

Verb

figure (third-person singular simple present figures, present participle figuring, simple past and past participle figured)

1. (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
2. (chiefly US) To come to understand.
3. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
4. (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable.
5. (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
6. (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.
7. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
8. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
9. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
10. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
11. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
12. (music) To embellish.

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