Definition of figure

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Figure (n.) A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement..

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Refer :: Refer (v. i.) To have relation or reference; to relate; to point; as, the figure refers to a footnote..
Superpraise :: Superposition (n.) The act of superposing, or the state of being superposed; as, the superposition of rocks; the superposition of one plane figure on another, in geometry..
German :: German (n.) A round dance, often with a waltz movement, abounding in capriciosly involved figures..
Dash :: Dash (n.) The line drawn through a figure in the thorough bass, as a direction to raise the interval a semitone..
Fan :: Fan (n.) An instrument for cooling the person, made of feathers, paper, silk, etc., and often mounted on sticks all turning about the same pivot, so as when opened to radiate from the center and assume the figure of a section of a circle..
Mar :: Mar (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface..
Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) An oval or oblong figure, bounded by a regular curve, which corresponds to an oblique projection of a circle, or an oblique section of a cone through its opposite sides. The greatest diameter of the ellipse is the major axis, and the least diameter is the minor axis. See Conic section, under Conic, and cf. Focus..
Ambrosin :: Ambrosin (n.) An early coin struck by the dukes of Milan, and bearing the figure of St. Ambrose on horseback..
Print :: Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth..
Drawloom :: Drawloom (n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The process of making a copy of something, as a figure, design, or draught, on a smaller scale, preserving the proper proportions..
Ecbasis :: Ecbasis (n.) A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.
Figure :: Figure (n.) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
Diamond :: Diamond (n.) A geometrical figure, consisting of four equal straight lines, and having two of the interior angles acute and two obtuse; a rhombus; a lozenge..
Attitude :: Attitude (n.) The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue..
Pentahedral :: Pentahedral (a.) Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure..
Isoperimetry :: Isoperimetry (n.) The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.
Tapet :: Tapet (n.) Worked or figured stuff; tapestry.
Grave :: Grave (n.) To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave..
Circle :: Circle (n.) The line that bounds such a figure; a circumference; a ring.
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