Definition of figure

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Figure (n.) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.

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Subjected :: Subject (n.) The incident, scene, figure, group, etc., which it is the aim of the artist to represent..
Sanbenito :: Sanbenito (n.) A garnment or cap, or sometimes both, painted with flames, figures, etc., and worn by persons who had been examined by the Inquisition and were brought forth for punishment at the auto-da-fe..
Spheroid :: Spheroid (n.) A body or figure approaching to a sphere, but not perfectly spherical; esp., a solid generated by the revolution of an ellipse about one of its axes..
Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..
Roundel :: Roundel (a.) Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle.
Aumail :: Aumail (v. t.) To figure or variegate.
Layman :: Layman (n.) A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above)..
Trace :: Trace (v. t.) To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing..
Equiangular :: Equiangular (a.) Having equal angles; as, an equiangular figure; a square is equiangular..
Chevroned :: Chevroned (p. a.) Having a chevron; decorated with an ornamental figure of a zigzag from.
Pseudosphere :: Pseudosphere (n.) The surface of constant negative curvature generated by the revolution of a tractrix. This surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.
Work :: Work (n.) Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery..
Set :: Set (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring..
Imprint :: Imprint (v. t.) To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates, stamps, or the like; to print the mark (figures, letters, etc., upon something)..
Set :: Set (n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed..
Parabolical :: Parabolical (a.) Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction..
Sort :: Sort (n.) Letters, figures, points, marks, spaces, or quadrats, belonging to a case, separately considered..
Hypobole :: Hypobole (n.) A figure in which several things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order..
Herborization :: Herborization (n.) The figure of plants in minerals or fossils.
Pentahedral :: Pentahedral (a.) Having five sides; as, a pentahedral figure..
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