Definitions for figure

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figure fig·ure

Spelling: [fig-yer; especially British fig-er]

IPA: /ˈfɪg yər; especially British ˈfɪg ər/

Figure is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in figure (efgiru).

Definitions for figure

noun

1. a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
2. an amount or value expressed in numbers.
3. figures, the use of numbers in calculating; arithmetic:
4. a written symbol other than a letter.
5. form or shape, as determined by outlines or exterior surfaces:
6. the bodily form or frame:
7. an individual bodily form or a person with reference to form or appearance:
8. a character or personage, especially one of distinction:
9. a person's public image or presence:
10. the appearance or impression made by a person or sometimes a thing:
11. a representation, pictorial or sculptured, especially of the human form:
12. an emblem, type, or symbol:
13. Rhetoric. a figure of speech.
14. a textural pattern, as in cloth or wood:
15. a distinct movement or division of a dance.
16. a movement, pattern, or series of movements in skating.
17. Music. a short succession of musical notes, as either a melody or a group of chords, that produces a single complete and distinct impression.
18. Geometry. a combination of geometric elements disposed in a particular form or shape:
19. Logic. the form of a categorical syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
20. Optics. the precise curve required on the surface of an optical element, especially the mirror or correcting plate of a reflecting telescope.
21. the natural pattern on a sawed wood surface produced by the intersection of knots, burls, growth rings, etc.
22. a phantasm or illusion.

Idioms

1. cut a figure. cut (defs 84, 85b).

Verb phrases

1. figure in, to add in:
2. figure on, Informal. to count or rely on. to take into consideration; plan on:
3. figure out, Informal. to understand; solve: to calculate; compute.
4. figure up, Informal. to total:

verb (used with object)

1. to compute or calculate (often followed by up):
2. to express in figures.
3. to mark or adorn with a design or pattern.
4. to portray by speech or action.
5. to represent or express by a figure of speech.
6. to represent by a pictorial or sculptured figure, a diagram, or the like; picture or depict; trace (an outline, silhouette, etc.).
7. Informal. to conclude, judge, reason, or think about:
8. Music. to embellish with passing notes or other decorations. to write figures above or below (a bass part) to indicate accompanying chords.

verb (used without object)

1. to compute or work with numerical figures.
2. to be or appear, especially in a conspicuous or prominent way:
3. Informal. (of a situation, act, request, etc.) to be logical, expected, or reasonable:

Origin of figure

1175-1225; Middle English Old French Latin figūra shape, trope, equivalent to fig- (base of fingere to shape) + -ūra -ure

Examples for figure

Iggy Azalea herself might not even understand how polarizing and important a figure Iggy Azalea has become.

You can peel the stuff out of your pockets with one hand, I figure.

The people who are involved in the violence, they figure out ways to remain here at all costs and continue causing trouble.

Coming on deck, he saw a figure which seemed familiar to him.

Robert glanced at Halbert's figure, slight compared with his own, and laughed.

A figure in white, with a stiff white cap, stood by the bed.

There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.

Gives her opinion of the force which figure or person may be allowed to have upon her sex.

Meanwhile, politicos were already trying to figure out their next play.

Several of them disputed the figure of six million Jewish deaths in the Holocaust.