CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Figure</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/clyx.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><script type="text/javascript"> function placeCursor(){ document.searchbox.q.focus(); } </script><table width="100%" height="12" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" background-color="#00d177"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="46" scrolling="no" src="title.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe><td width="42"><a href="/" title="home" target="_top"><img src="/opt.png" border="0" width="42" height="46"></a></td><td></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" height="8" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" height="37" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" onMouseOver="placeCursor()"><tr><td width="27" height="42" background="/mbleft20.png"></td><form name="searchbox" method="get" action="//clyx.com/lookup.php" target="_top"><td valign="middle" height="42" background="/mbcenter20.png"><input type="text" name="q" length="80" id="inputBox" value="" style="width:90%; font-size:14pt; color:#999999; border:0; " autocomplete="off" placeholder="Clyx.com: Lexicon Search"></td><td width="64" height="42" valign="left" background="/mbright20.png"><input type="image" name="Bible" value="Lookup" src="/clr31.png" style="border:0" width="31" height="31"></td></form><td width="1" height="42" align="right"></td></tr></table><table width="100%" height="8" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td> </td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td> </td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="figurativeness.htm" title="Figurativeness">◄ </a>Figure<a href="figure in.htm" title="Figure In"> ►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="chap"><p></p><div class="hdg">Dictionary</div>1. (<i>n.</i>) The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.<p>2. (<i>n.</i>) The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modeling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body; as, a figure in bronze; a figure cut in marble.<p>3. (<i>n.</i>) A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.<p>4. (<i>n.</i>) A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space enclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when enclosed by lines, and solid when enclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.<p>5. (<i>n.</i>) The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person; as, a sorry figure.<p>6. (<i>n.</i>) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.<p>7. (<i>n.</i>) A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.<p>8. (<i>n.</i>) Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.<p>9. (<i>n.</i>) A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.<p>10. (<i>n.</i>) 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.<p>11. (<i>n.</i>) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.<p>12. (<i>n.</i>) Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.<p>13. (<i>n.</i>) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.<p>14. (<i>n.</i>) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.<p>15. (<i>n.</i>) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a musical or motive; a florid embellishment.<p>16. (<i>n.</i>) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.<p>17. (<i>n.</i>) To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.<p>18. (<i>n.</i>) To indicate by numerals; also, to compute.<p>19. (<i>n.</i>) To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.<p>20. (<i>n.</i>) To prefigure; to foreshow.<p>21. (<i>n.</i>) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.<p>22. (<i>n.</i>) To embellish.<p>23. (<i>v. t.</i>) To make a figure; to be distinguished or conspicuous; as, the envoy figured at court.<p>24. (<i>v. t.</i>) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination.<br /><br /><div class="hdg">Thesaurus</div><a href="aristotelian sorites.htm">Aristotelian sorites</a> <a href="establishment.htm">Establishment</a> <a href="goclenian sorites.htm">Goclenian sorites</a> <a href="platonic body.htm">Platonic body</a> <a href="platonic form.htm">Platonic form</a> <a href="platonic idea.htm">Platonic idea</a> <a href="vip.htm">VIP</a> <a href="accept.htm">accept</a> <a href="acclaim.htm">acclaim</a> <a href="acknowledge.htm">acknowledge</a> <a href="act.htm">act</a> <a href="acute-angled triangle.htm">acute-angled triangle</a> <a href="add.htm">add</a> <a href="adornment.htm">adornment</a> <a href="adumbrate.htm">adumbrate</a> <a href="advert to.htm">advert to</a> <a href="aesthetic form.htm">aesthetic form</a> <a href="algebraize.htm">algebraize</a> <a href="allude to.htm">allude to</a> <a href="amount.htm">amount</a> <a href="anacrusis.htm">anacrusis</a> <a href="anatomy.htm">anatomy</a> <a href="angle.htm">angle</a> <a href="apparition.htm">apparition</a> <a href="appear.htm">appear</a> <a href="appearance.htm">appearance</a> <a href="appraise.htm">appraise</a> <a href="appreciate.htm">appreciate</a> <a href="archetype.htm">archetype</a> <a href="aroma.htm">aroma</a> <a href="arrange.htm">arrange</a> <a href="art form.htm">art form</a> <a href="asiaticism.htm">asiaticism</a> <a href="aspect.htm">aspect</a> <a href="assess.htm">assess</a> <a href="assume.htm">assume</a> <a href="attribute.htm">attribute</a> <a href="background.htm">background</a> <a href="background detail.htm">background detail</a> <a href="badge.htm">badge</a> <a href="baron.htm">baron</a> <a href="bass passage.htm">bass passage</a> <a href="be conspicuous.htm">be conspicuous</a> <a href="be demonstrable.htm">be demonstrable</a> <a href="be featured.htm">be featured</a> <a href="be irrefutable.htm">be irrefutable</a> <a href="be logical.htm">be logical</a> <a href="be reasonable.htm">be reasonable</a> <a href="be somebody.htm">be somebody</a> <a href="be something.htm">be something</a> <a href="be taken as.htm">be taken as</a> <a href="bead.htm">bead</a> <a href="beauties.htm">beauties</a> <a href="bejewel.htm">bejewel</a> <a href="believe.htm">believe</a> <a href="beribbon.htm">beribbon</a> <a href="bespangle.htm">bespangle</a> <a href="big gun.htm">big gun</a> <a href="big man.htm">big man</a> <a href="big name.htm">big name</a> <a href="bigwig.htm">bigwig</a> <a href="binary digit.htm">binary digit</a> <a href="bit.htm">bit</a> <a href="blazon.htm">blazon</a> <a href="block out.htm">block out</a> <a href="blueprint.htm">blueprint</a> <a href="bod.htm">bod</a> <a href="body.htm">body</a> <a href="body forth.htm">body forth</a> <a href="body-build.htm">body-build</a> <a href="bones.htm">bones</a> <a href="bourdon.htm">bourdon</a> <a href="brand.htm">brand</a> <a href="brass.htm">brass</a> <a href="brass hat.htm">brass hat</a> <a href="bravura.htm">bravura</a> <a href="bridge.htm">bridge</a> <a href="brilliancy.htm">brilliancy</a> <a href="brouillon.htm">brouillon</a> <a href="build.htm">build</a> <a href="burden.htm">burden</a> <a href="bust.htm">bust</a> <a href="cachet.htm">cachet</a> <a href="cadence.htm">cadence</a> <a href="calculate.htm">calculate</a> <a href="call.htm">call</a> <a href="carcass.htm">carcass</a> <a href="cartoon.htm">cartoon</a> <a href="carve.htm">carve</a> <a href="carving.htm">carving</a> <a href="cast.htm">cast</a> <a href="catch on to.htm">catch on to</a> <a href="categorical syllogism.htm">categorical syllogism</a> <a href="celebrity.htm">celebrity</a> <a href="character.htm">character</a> <a href="characteristic.htm">characteristic</a> <a href="charge.htm">charge</a> <a href="chart.htm">chart</a> <a href="chassis.htm">chassis</a> <a href="chisel.htm">chisel</a> <a href="chorus.htm">chorus</a> <a href="cipher.htm">cipher</a> <a href="class.htm">class</a> <a href="clay.htm">clay</a> <a href="clod.htm">clod</a> <a href="coda.htm">coda</a> <a href="colors.htm">colors</a> <a href="colors of rhetoric.htm">colors of rhetoric</a> <a href="compute.htm">compute</a> <a href="concede.htm">concede</a> <a href="concert.htm">concert</a> <a href="conclude.htm">conclude</a> <a href="configuration.htm">configuration</a> <a href="conformation.htm">conformation</a> <a href="consider.htm">consider</a> <a href="constellation.htm">constellation</a> <a href="contour.htm">contour</a> <a href="contrive.htm">contrive</a> <a href="copy.htm">copy</a> <a href="corpus.htm">corpus</a> <a href="cost.htm">cost</a> <a href="count.htm">count</a> <a href="count on.htm">count on</a> <a href="create.htm">create</a> <a href="cube.htm">cube</a> <a href="cuboid.htm">cuboid</a> <a href="cusp.htm">cusp</a> <a href="cut.htm">cut</a> <a href="cut a dash.htm">cut a dash</a> <a href="cut a figure.htm">cut a figure</a> <a href="cut out.htm">cut out</a> <a href="cynosure.htm">cynosure</a> <a href="damage.htm">damage</a> <a href="daring.htm">daring</a> <a href="dash.htm">dash</a> <a href="decagon.htm">decagon</a> <a href="decipher.htm">decipher</a> <a href="decoration.htm">decoration</a> <a href="decorative composition.htm">decorative composition</a> <a href="decorative style.htm">decorative style</a> <a href="delineation.htm">delineation</a> <a href="demonstrate.htm">demonstrate</a> <a href="demonstration.htm">demonstration</a> <a href="denominate.htm">denominate</a> <a href="denote.htm">denote</a> <a href="design.htm">design</a> <a href="designate.htm">designate</a> <a href="detail.htm">detail</a> <a href="determine.htm">determine</a> <a href="development.htm">development</a> <a href="device.htm">device</a> <a href="devise.htm">devise</a> <a href="diagram.htm">diagram</a> <a href="diamond.htm">diamond</a> <a href="differentia.htm">differentia</a> <a href="differential.htm">differential</a> <a href="dig.htm">dig</a> <a href="digit.htm">digit</a> <a href="dignitary.htm">dignitary</a> <a href="dignity.htm">dignity</a> <a href="dilemma.htm">dilemma</a> <a href="display.htm">display</a> <a href="distinctive feature.htm">distinctive feature</a> <a href="divide.htm">divide</a> <a href="division.htm">division</a> <a href="dodecagon.htm">dodecagon</a> <a href="dodecahedron.htm">dodecahedron</a> <a href="doll.htm">doll</a> <a href="dolly.htm">dolly</a> <a href="dope out.htm">dope out</a> <a href="draft.htm">draft</a> <a href="dramatics.htm">dramatics</a> <a href="drawing.htm">drawing</a> <a href="dummy.htm">dummy</a> <a href="earmark.htm">earmark</a> <a href="ebauche.htm">ebauche</a> <a href="eclat.htm">eclat</a> <a href="effect.htm">effect</a> <a href="effigy.htm">effigy</a> <a href="efform.htm">efform</a> <a href="eidolon.htm">eidolon</a> <a href="elder.htm">elder</a> <a href="elegant variation.htm">elegant variation</a> <a href="elevation.htm">elevation</a> <a href="embellishment.htm">embellishment</a> <a href="emblem.htm">emblem</a> <a href="emblematize.htm">emblematize</a> <a href="embody.htm">embody</a> <a href="embroidery.htm">embroidery</a> <a href="engrave.htm">engrave</a> <a href="enthymeme.htm">enthymeme</a> <a href="enumerate.htm">enumerate</a> <a href="equilateral triangle.htm">equilateral triangle</a> <a href="esquisse.htm">esquisse</a> <a href="estimate.htm">estimate</a> <a href="etalage.htm">etalage</a> <a href="euphuism.htm">euphuism</a> <a href="evaluate.htm">evaluate</a> <a href="exemplify.htm">exemplify</a> <a href="exhibition.htm">exhibition</a> <a href="exhibitionism.htm">exhibitionism</a> <a href="expenditure.htm">expenditure</a> <a href="expense.htm">expense</a> <a href="exposition.htm">exposition</a> <a href="extract roots.htm">extract roots</a> <a href="facet.htm">facet</a> <a href="false front.htm">false front</a> <a href="false image.htm">false image</a> <a href="fame.htm">fame</a> <a href="famousness.htm">famousness</a> <a href="fanfaronade.htm">fanfaronade</a> <a href="fantasy.htm">fantasy</a> <a href="fantoccini.htm">fantoccini</a> <a href="fashion.htm">fashion</a> <a href="father.htm">father</a> <a href="fathom.htm">fathom</a> <a href="feather.htm">feather</a> <a href="feature.htm">feature</a> <a href="features.htm">features</a> <a href="figuration.htm">figuration</a> <a href="figurative language.htm">figurative language</a> <a href="figurativeness.htm">figurativeness</a> <a href="figure in.htm">figure in</a> <a href="figure of speech.htm">figure of speech</a> <a href="figure on.htm">figure on</a> <a href="figure out.htm">figure out</a> <a href="figure up.htm">figure up</a> <a href="figure-ground.htm">figure-ground</a> <a href="figurehead.htm">figurehead</a> <a href="figurine.htm">figurine</a> <a href="filigree.htm">filigree</a> <a href="fine writing.htm">fine writing</a> <a href="finger.htm">finger</a> <a href="fix.htm">fix</a> <a href="flag.htm">flag</a> <a href="flair.htm">flair</a> <a href="flaunt.htm">flaunt</a> <a href="flaunting.htm">flaunting</a> <a href="flavor.htm">flavor</a> <a href="flesh.htm">flesh</a> <a href="floridity.htm">floridity</a> <a href="floridness.htm">floridness</a> <a href="flounce.htm">flounce</a> <a href="flourish.htm">flourish</a> <a href="flower.htm">flower</a> <a href="floweriness.htm">floweriness</a> <a href="flowers of speech.htm">flowers of speech</a> <a href="flowery style.htm">flowery style</a> <a href="foil.htm">foil</a> <a href="folderol.htm">folderol</a> <a href="folk hero.htm">folk hero</a> <a href="foot.htm">foot</a> <a href="force.htm">force</a> <a href="forecast.htm">forecast</a> </div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><span class=p>                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        <br /><br /></span><a href="/">Clyx.com</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table><br /></div><div id="left"><a href="figurativeness.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Figurativeness"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Figurativeness" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="figure in.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Figure In"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Figure In" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>