figure
Definition of figure:
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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.
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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.
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part of speech: verb
To make figures; to appear as a distinguished person.
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part of speech: noun
Shape; form; appearance; a character or shape denoting a number; a mode of expression; a type; an emblem; a diagram; in art, a representation of the human body; in rhet., mode of speaking in which words are turned from their ordinary sense- usually termed figure of speech; in logic, the arrangement of the middle term of a syllogism with the two terms of the conclusion; in familiar language, price or value.
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Common misspellings:
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- figue (7.4%)
- firgure (10.1%)
- figer (2.0%)
- fingure (6.5%)
- asess (0.2%)
- figour (0.4%)
- figur (9.6%)
- figuire (6.9%)
- figher (0.4%)
- fugure (8.5%)
- figgure (4.0%)
- fgure (1.1%)
- figuare (2.0%)
- figuer (18.8%)
- figuar (2.2%)
- fiogure (0.4%)
- fuigure (1.1%)
- fifure (0.4%)
- fisure (0.2%)
- figger (1.1%)
- figuere (0.4%)
- figrue (1.3%)
- fiqure (9.4%)
- figuree (0.2%)
- fgiure (0.9%)
- figurre (0.7%)
- fiure (0.7%)
- fegur (0.4%)
- figure1risk (0.4%)
- fogure (0.4%)
- shigure (1.3%)
Usage examples for figure:
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Her hands, her feet, her figure were perfect.
"Ayala's Angel" – Anthony Trollope -
I figure I can answer any question you got sense enough to ask.
"Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance" – Frances Cavanah -
How long had he been there, do y'u figure
"Red Men and White" – Owen Wister -
It was the figure of Monsieur Charretier.
"The Motor Maid" – Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
