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say it: FIG-yur
figure is a noun and verb meaning "a diagram or picture illustrating textual material". It carries 18 recorded senses.
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
“the area covered can be seen from Figure 2”
alternative names for the body of a human being
“Leonardo studied the human body”
“he has a strong physique”
“the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak”
one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration
“0 and 1 are digits”
a well-known or notable person
“they studied all the great names in the history of France”
“she is an important figure in modern music”
a combination of points and lines and planes that form a visible palpable shape
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
a predetermined set of movements in dancing or skating
“she made the best score on compulsory figures”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for figure come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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