How to pronounce “figure”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A drawing or diagram conveying information.
• The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.
• A person or thing representing a certain consciousness.
• The appearance or impression made by the conduct or career of a person.
• (obsolete) Distinguished appearance; magnificence; conspicuous representation; splendour; show.
• A human figure, which dress or corset must fit to; the shape of a human body.
• A numeral.
• A number, an amount.
• A shape.
• A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
• Any complex dance moveW.
• A figure of speech.
• (logic) The form of a syllogism with respect to the relative position of the middle term.
• (astrology) A horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
• (music) Any short succession of notes, either as melody or as a group of chords, which produce a single complete and distinct impression.
• (music) A form of melody or accompaniment kept up through a strain or passage; a motif; a florid embellishment.
• [Verb]
• (chiefly US) To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem.
• (chiefly US) To come to understand.
• To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon.
• (chiefly US, intransitive) To be reasonable or predictable.
• (intransitive) To enter into; to be a part of.
• (transitive) To represent in a picture or drawing.
• (obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.
• To embellish with design; to adorn with figures.
• (obsolete) To indicate by numerals.
• To represent by a metaphor; to signify or symbolize.
• (obsolete) To prefigure; to foreshow.
• (music) To write over or under the bass, as figures or other characters, in order to indicate the accompanying chords.
• (music) To embellish.
• [Adverb]
• (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) figuratively (in a figurative manner)

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