Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word FIGURE

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Definitions of FIGURE

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. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
6. A numeral.
7. A number, an amount.
8. A shape.
9. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
10. A figure of speech.
11. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
12. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
13. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
14. Any complex dance move^W.
15. (chiefly, US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
16. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
17. (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
18. (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
19. (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
20. (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
21. (chiefly, US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
22. (chiefly, US) To come to understand.
23. (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
24. (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
25. (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.
26. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
27. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
28. (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
29. (music) To embellish.

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Examples of Using FIGURE in a Sentence

• A leading figure in the pop art movement, Warhol is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
• In Euclidean geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.
• He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promoting Roman Christianity against Arianism and paganism.
• At the invitation of Charlemagne, he became a leading scholar and teacher at the Carolingian court, where he remained a figure in the 780s and 790s.
• He is a significant figure in Homer's Iliad and is also mentioned in the Odyssey, in Virgil's Aeneid and in Euripides' The Trojan Women.
• He plays an important role in the Trojan War, and is portrayed as a towering figure and a warrior of great courage in Homer's Iliad and in the Epic Cycle, a series of epic poems about the Trojan War, being second only to Achilles among Greek heroes of the war.
• Originally, a bronze figure of Triton was placed on the summit that was turned round by the wind so that the rod in his hand pointed to the correct wind direction, an idea replicated with subsequent wind vanes.
• He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927).
• Sharon became an instrumental figure in the creation of Unit 101 and the reprisal operations, including the 1953 Qibya massacre, as well as in the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition, and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973.
• Folklorists trace the phenomenon of Bigfoot to a combination of factors and sources, including the European wild man figure, folk tales, and indigenous cultures.
• Charles Hardin Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959), known as Buddy Holly, was an American singer, songwriter, and musician who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll.
• Brian Anthony Boitano (born October 22, 1963) is an American figure skater from Sunnyvale, California.
• Yvan Blot (1948–2018), French conservative political figure, founder and president of the Club de l'Horloge.
• Babbage, who died before the complete successful engineering of many of his designs, including his Difference Engine and Analytical Engine, remained a prominent figure in the ideating of computing.
• A person may attain celebrity status by having great wealth, participation in sports or the entertainment industry, their position as a political figure, or even their connection to another celebrity.
• Population density figures conceal a great disparity between the republic's most crowded island, Nzwani, which had a density of 772 persons per square kilometer in 2017; Njazidja, which had a density of 331 persons per square kilometer in 2017; and Mwali, where the 2017 population density figure was 178 persons per square kilometer.
• A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.
• A major intellectual and public figure in English-speaking colonial America, Cotton Mather helped lead the successful revolt of 1689 against Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of New England appointed by King James II.
• According to some writers, Zeus transformed himself into the figure of Artemis to pursue Callisto, and she slept with him believing Zeus to be Artemis.
• A cross is a compound geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines, usually perpendicular to each other.

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