Results for figure

Definition of figure:

• part of speech: (verb intransitive)

  To make figures; appear conspicuously.

• part of speech: (verb transitive)

  To make an image of; mark with figures; note by figures.

• 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.

Usage examples for figure:

“ A different figure one would make. ” Faust, - Goethe.

“ He looked- at his own sleeping figure ” Earthsmith, - Milton Lesser.