figure

Significado (Inglês)

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. To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
2. To come to understand.
3. To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
4. To be reasonable or predictable.
5. To enter into; to be a part of.
6. 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.

Hifenizado como

fig‧ure

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈfɪɡə/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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 (degdhi), Old English dāg (“dough”). More at dough. Doublet of figura.

Frases

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

A combinação de ambas as imagens de animais em uma figura se desenvolveu.