Figure
Definition of figure:
part of speech: noun
The form of anything in outline; the representation of anything in drawing, etc.; a drawing; a design; a statue; appearance; a character denoting a number; value or price; ( rhet.) a deviation from the ordinary mode of expression, in which words are changed from their literal signification or usage; ( logic) the form of a syllogism with respect to the position of the middle term; steps in a dance; a type or emblem.
part of speech: verb
To make figures; to appear as a distinguished person.
part of speech: verb
To form into any determinate shape; show by resemblance; represent; symbolize; adorn or cover with a pattern; calculate or compute.
part of speech: verb
To be conspicuous; colloquially, to cipher; calculate.
part of speech: noun
The outline or shape of a person or object; appearance; an image or statue; drawn or painted representation of a person; idea; pattern; type; sign or character denoting a number; a movement in a dance; musical phrase, or repeated theme; value or cost; as, the goods were sold at a high figure; a space bounded on all sides by lines or planes; a special or peculiar use of words; as, a figure of speech.
part of speech: verb
To make figures; appear conspicuously.
part of speech: verb
To make an image of; mark with figures; note by figures.
part of speech: verb
To form or shape; to make an image of; to mark with figures or designs; to imagine; to symbolize; to foreshow; to note by figures.