figure

Meaning

Noun

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. (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
6. A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
7. A numeral.
8. A number, an amount.
9. A shape.
10. A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
11. Any complex dance moveᵂ.
12. A figure of speech.
13. The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
14. A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
15. Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
16. A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.

Verb

1. (US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
2. (US) To come to understand.
3. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
4. (US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
5. (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
6. (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
7. (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.
8. To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
9. (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
10. To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
11. (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
12. To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
13. To embellish.

Synonyms

form

shape

image

digit

calculate

picture

number

🔢

numeral

appearance

count

🔢

body

reckon

pattern

build

illustration

cipher

drawing

design

work out

diagram

frame

physique

compute

estimate

stature

outline

statue

think

🤔

imagine

mark

map

part

representation

emblem

amount

sign

graph

sculpture

chart

💹

visualize

sum

symbol

see

👀

judge

🧑‍⚖️

envision

cypher

portrait

plan

scheme

fancy

Translations

figura

figure

figura

Figur

figura

chiffre

Gestalt

Abbildung

cifra

figura

Ziffer

cifra

cijfer

forme

número

🔢

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɪɡə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: figure

Cognate with Ancient Greek: τεῖχος

Cognate with Sanskrit: देग्धि

Cognate with Old English: dāg

In summary

From Middle English figure, borrowed from Old French figure, from Latin figūra (“form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing”), from fingō (“to form, shape, mold, fashion”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold, shape, form, knead”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τεῖχος (teîkhos), Sanskrit देग्धि (dégdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.

Sentences

The combination of both animal pictures into one figure has developed .

I've been trying to figure it out .

Variety called Andree Lafayette " the ideal Trilby in face and figure ".