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  • English Word Figurability Definition The quality of being figurable.
  • English Word Figurable Definition Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
  • English Word Figural Definition Represented by figure or delineation; consisting of figures; as, figural ornaments.
  • English Word Figural Definition Figurate. See Figurate.
  • English Word Figurant Definition One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene, without taking a prominent part.
  • English Word Figurante Definition A female figurant; esp., a ballet girl.
  • English Word Figurate Definition Of a definite form or figure.
  • English Word Figurate Definition Figurative; metaphorical.
  • English Word Figurate Definition Florid; figurative; involving passing discords by the freer melodic movement of one or more parts or voices in the harmony; as, figurate counterpoint or descant.
  • English Word Figurated Definition Having a determinate form.
  • English Word Figurately Definition In a figurate manner.
  • English Word Figuration Definition The act of giving figure or determinate form; determination to a certain form.
  • English Word Figuration Definition Mixture of concords and discords.
  • English Word Figurative Definition Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
  • English Word Figurative Definition Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
  • English Word Figurative Definition Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
  • English Word Figurative Definition Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
  • English Word Figure Definition The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.
  • English Word Figure Definition 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.
  • English Word Figure Definition A pattern in cloth, paper, or other manufactured article; a design wrought out in a fabric; as, the muslin was of a pretty figure.
  • English Word Figure Definition A diagram or drawing; made to represent a magnitude or the relation of two or more magnitudes; a surface or space inclosed on all sides; -- called superficial when inclosed by lines, and solid when inclosed by surface; any arrangement made up of points, lines, angles, surfaces, etc.
  • English Word Figure Definition The appearance or impression made by the conduct or carrer of a person; as, a sorry figure.
  • English Word Figure Definition Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendor; show.
  • English Word Figure Definition A character or symbol representing a number; a numeral; a digit; as, 1, 2,3, etc.
  • English Word Figure Definition Value, as expressed in numbers; price; as, the goods are estimated or sold at a low figure.
  • English Word Figure Definition A person, thing, or action, conceived of as analogous to another person, thing, or action, of which it thus becomes a type or representative.
  • English Word Figure Definition 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.
  • English Word Figure Definition The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
  • English Word Figure Definition Any one of the several regular steps or movements made by a dancer.
  • English Word Figure Definition A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.