figure
Meaning of figure
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 figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble
- A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
- 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.
- 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.
- To be reasonable.
It figures that somebody like him would be upset about the situation.
- To enter into; to be a part of.
- 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.
Information about figure
- The plural form of figure is: figures.
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Hyphenation of figure
fig-ure
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- figure is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
figure synonyms
Meaning fig:
Meaning human body:
soma, build, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh
Meaning digit:
Meaning name:
Meaning number:
Meaning trope:
Meaning design:
Meaning calculate:
calculate, estimate, reckon, forecast, cipher, cypher, compute
Meaning enter:
Meaning visualize:
visualize, envision, project, fancy, see, picture, image
Translation of figure
- French: reproduction, image, figure, illustration
- Spanish: imagen, retrato, ilustración, figura, dibujo
- German: Abbildung, Zeichnung
- Italian: illustrazione, disegno, riproduzione, figura
- Portuguese: desenho, figura, ilustração
Words that rhyme with figure
configure, defigure, demifigure, disfigure, enfigure, exfigure, forefigure, ligure, mastigure, misfigure, outfigure, preconfigure, prefigure, reconfigure, refigure, retransfigure, semifigure, subfigure, transfigure, desfigure, envergure, augure
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