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      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 person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
      The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
      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.
      (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
      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.
      To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
      To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
      (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
      (music) To embellish.
      (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.
      (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
      (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
      Roots
      fingofigur- · Latin · shape, form
      Synonyms for figure
      shapencalculatevestimatenpicturenpatternnformnreckonvphysiquenfigurinencomputevimagennumbernpentahedronnseevfigurationnsculptvdigitndiagramneffigynstatuettenforecastnstatuenlikenessnfigureheadnillustrationnpersonagensculpturensilhouetten
      Words related to figure
      figuratevvisualizevoctanglefignfiguraladjproportionsnmaquettendiagrammaticallyadvdancetteenvisionvdepictingnemblazonryadj

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