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  1. noun A written or printed symbol representing something other than a letter, especially a number.
  2. noun Mathematical calculations: good at figures.
  3. noun An amount represented in numbers: sold for a large figure.
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  • In her clinging dress of simple white her figure was as slimly graceful as that of a wood-nymph, her head poised as sweetly as a lily on its stem. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
  • I replied that the figure was accurate and that there was nothing new about it as it only denoted the accumulation of a state of things which had been continuously reported since the very first day when we started off from England minus the ten per cent. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2
  • GH, represents the primitive, which in this figure is also the real diameter of the escape wheel. —  An Analysis of the Lever Escapement
  • In the distance a figure was advancing on the run I tell you fellahs, I So you're afraid, eh The new arrival stiffened at this, his fingers twitched, and he fastened upon Benz a coldly penetrating look. —  Over the Line
  • He has the right 'air,' and so has the shorty, the fat Monty, only his figure is against him," he had remarked to Mateo, who had instantly agreed with him. —  Dorothy on a Ranch
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form ·  picture ·  shape ·  body ·  group ·  appearance ·  creature ·  position

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figure:   figures ·  figured ·  figuring
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin figūra; see dheigh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English figure, figour, fygur, form, shape, image, a figure in arithmetic and geometry, from Old French figure, French figure = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian figura = Dutch figuur = G. Danish Swedish figur, from Latin figura, a form, shape, form of a word, a figure of speech, Late Latin a sketch, drawing, from fingere (√ *fig), form, shape, mold, fashion: see feign, fictile, fiction, figment, etc.
  2. from Middle English figuren (= Dutch figureren = German figuriren = Danish figurere = Swedish figurera), from Old French figurer, French figurer = Provencal Spanish Portuguese figurar = Italian figurare, from Latin figurare, form, shape, fashion, represent, imagine, etc., from figura, a form, shape, figure: see figure, n.
 

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