Meaning of figure | Babel Free

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1. amount
2. A drawing or diagram conveying information.
3. quantity
4. The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
5. To add in or include, as in making an account: figured in travel expenses when estimating the cost.
6. A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
7. Used in the imperative to indicate the unexpectedness or absurdity of something.
8. plenty; shedload
9. Informal. To look forward to confidently:anticipate, await, bargain for (or on), count on, depend on (or upon), expect, look for, wait (for).
10. The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
11. like hell; a hell of a lot; shedloads
12. of or using figures of speech. figurative language. figuurlik مَجازي، إسْتِعاري метафоричен figurado obrazný bilderreich billedlig μεταφορικόςfigurado kujundlik پر استعاره kuvaannollinen figuré מַשמָעוּת מוּשאֶלֶת आलंकारिक figurativan, metaforički képletes figuratif líkinga-; myndrænn; óeiginlegur figurato 比喩的な 비유(수식)가 많은 vaizdingas, metaforiškas metaforisks; gleznains; tēlains kiasan figuurlijk figurativ, bilderikprzenośny, metaforyczny نمونه يې، رمزى (سمبوليك)، مجازى، كنايى، ترسيمى، صنعت لر...
13. Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
    obsolete
14. figuurlik بِصورَة مَجازِيَّه أو إستِعاريَّه метафорично figuradamente obrazně bildlich billedligt μεταφορικάfiguradamente, metafóricamente kujundlikult بطور تمثیلی kuvaannollisesti métaphoriquement בְּהַשאָלָה आलंकारिक रूप से figurativno, slikovito képletesen secara figuratif á myndrænan hátt, myndrænt metaforicamente 比喩的に 비유적으로 vaizdingai, metaforiškai metaforiski; gleznaini; tēlaini dengan kiasan figuurlijk billedlig, med et bilde, i overført betydning przenośnie, metaforycznie دنمونې په ډو...
15. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
16. A numeral.
17. one of several devices (eg metaphor, simile) for using words not with their ordinary meanings but to make a striking effect. stylfiguur إستِعارَه، تَشْبيه езиков похват figura de estilo řečnická figura sprachliches Stilmittel billedligt udtryk σχήμα λόγου figura retórica kõnekujund هر یک از صنایع ادبی kielikuva fa��on de parler ביטוי अलंकार slikovito izražavanje, govorne figure szókép perumpamaan líking, myndhverfing modo di dire 比喩 비유 stilistinė priemonė tēlainās izteiksmes līdzekļi perumpam...
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18. A number, an amount.
19. to understand. I can't figure out why he said that. uitredeneer يَفْهَم، يُدْرِك разбирам entender pochopit herausfinden forstå καταλαβαίνωcomprender ära arvama فهمیدن ymmärtää arriver à comprendre לְהָבִין समझना shvatiti, razumjeti kiókumulál (vmit) memahami skilja capire, comprendere 理解する 파악하다 suprasti, suvokti saprast; izprast memahami erachter komen finne ut av, regne utrozumieć, pojąć پوهیدل entender a înţelege, a pricepe понимать pochopiť razbrati razumeti förstå, komma underfund med เข...
20. A shape.
21. figura; cifra, número.
22. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
23. A written or printed symbol representing something other than a letter, especially a number.
24. Any complex dance moveᵂ.
25. Mathematics A geometric form consisting of any combination of points, lines, or planes: A triangle is a plane figure.
    Mathematics
26. A figure of speech.
27. The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
28. A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
29. Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
30. A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

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Examples

“For example, while Figure 1 shows information for 516 visitor groups, Figure 3 presents data for 1,625 individuals. A note above each graph or table specifies the information illustrated. ... For example, although Joshua Tree NP visitors returned 525 questionnaires, Figure 1 shows data for only 516 respondents.”

“a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble”

“a coin that bears the figure of an angel”

“Ever since I was a young’n and my dad gave me a Godzilla figure, I’ve been a huge fan of the big green lizard from the Land of the Rising Sun.”

“Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.”

“He cut a sorry figure standing there in the rain.”

“I made some figure there.”

“gentlemen of the best figure in the county”

“that he may live in figure and indulgence”

“The origin of the corset is lost in remote antiquity. The figures of the early Egyptian women show clearly an artificial shape of the waist produced by some style of corset.”

“She was cunningly dressed in a black, sheer gown with gold ornaments showing her figure to perfection.”

“(i) in the 1966 edition of The Destruction of Dresden Irving contended that 135,000 were estimated authoritatively to have been killed and further contended that the documentation suggested a figure between 100,00 and 250,000;”

“a geometrical figure, a plane figure, a solid figure”

“Flowers have all exquisite figures.”

“And these were not human shapes, or the shapes of anything I recognised as alive in the world, but outlines of fire that traced globes, triangles, crosses, and the luminous bodies of various geometrical figures.”

“The muslin was of a pretty figure.”

“Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness,[…]. It was with a palpable relief that he heard the first warning notes of the figure.”

“to represent the imagination under the figure of a wing”

“its quality, like those of all the rest, is determined by its position in the house of the astrological figure”

“Here, Beethoven limits the syncopations and modifications of rhythm which are so prominent in the first and third movements, and employs a rapid, busy, and most melodious figure in the Violins, which is irresistible in its gay and brilliant effect[…]”

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